John Toshack, title-winning Real Madrid coach, diagnosed with dementia | OneFootball

Welshman John Toshack, 77, who managed Real Madrid and his national team, has been diagnosed with dementia, his son Cameron said on Wednesday.

An icon of Wales and Liverpool, Toshack scored nearly 100 goals and won several titles at Anfield, where he formed a lethal strike partnership with Kevin Keegan in the 1970s. He made 40 appearances for the Welsh national team.

Among the teams he managed during his long coaching career, Real Sociedad, Real Madrid, and the Wales national team stand out.

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Cameron, his son, who works as a football coach in Thailand, spoke to the Daily Mirror about his father’s illness.

“It’s terrible,” he said. “We’re noticing it in his short-term memory: I speak to him almost every day and, if we talk in the afternoon, he may not remember that we also spoke in the morning.”

“But if I ask him about his time at Liverpool, Real Sociedad or Real Madrid, the details are incredible. The other day, he was telling me about a Real Madrid match against Arrigo Sacchi’s Milan and exactly how he adjusted the midfield to stop Marco van Basten,” he explained.

“The game could have been yesterday, that’s how clear his memory is,” he added.

Toshack won the 1987 Copa del Rey in one of his three spells at Real Sociedad and coached Real Madrid twice, winning the 1990 Spanish league title.

He also worked in France, Turkey, Morocco, Azerbaijan and Italy, and had two spells in charge of the Wales national team.

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