Liverpool and Wales great John Toshack, who managed Real Madrid and his national team, has been diagnosed with dementia, according to his son Cameron.
Toshack scored nearly 100 goals and won multiple trophies at Anfield, where he formed a lethal strike partnership with Kevin Keegan in the 1970s, and he earned 40 caps for Wales.
Among the teams he coached during a long managerial career were Real Sociedad, Real Madrid and Wales.
The 77-year-old’s son Cameron, who works as a football coach in Thailand, spoke to the Daily Mail about Toshack’s illness.
“It’s a terrible disease,” he said. “It’s the short-term memory where we’re seeing it — I speak to him most days and if we chat in the afternoon, he might not remember that we also spoke in the morning.
“But if I ask him about the Liverpool days, or Sociedad or Madrid, the detail is amazing.
