Man Utd send touching message to Louis van Gaal after prostate cancer diagnosis

dailystar.co.uk:

Manchester United have paid tribute to their former manager Louis van Gaal after he revealed a cancer diagnosis.The Dutchman, 70, shocked the footballing world when he announced on the Dutch TV show Humberto on Sunday evening that he had been having treatment for an aggressive form of prostate cancer. “I think you don’t tell people you work with like that because it might influence their choices, their decisiveness, so I thought they shouldn’t know,’ he said.“You don’t die from prostate cancer, at least not in 90 per cent of the cases.

It is usually other underlying diseases that kill you. But I had a pretty aggressive form, got irradiated 25 times. Then you have a lot of management to do in order to get through life.” Following the news, United tweeted out a heartwarming message of support: “Everybody at Manchester United is fully behind our former manager, Louis van Gaal, in his battle against cancer.

Sending you strength and courage, Louis.” The Holland national manager coached the side from 2014 to 2016. , coming in to replace the sacked David Moyes.

In his first season, Van Gaal led United to a fourth-place finish, an improvement by three places and six points from the previous campaign.