Liverpool & Wales great Toshack diagnosed with dementia
John Toshack managed a string of clubs as well as Wales during a coaching career which spanned 40 years Wales and Liverpool legend John Toshack has been diagnosed with dementia, his son Cameron has confirmed.
John Toshack managed a string of clubs as well as Wales during a coaching career which spanned 40 years Wales and Liverpool legend John Toshack has been diagnosed with dementia, his son Cameron has confirmed. Toshack, 77, scored 13 goals in 40 caps for his country - who he also managed both in 1994 and between 2004 and 2010. After a glittering playing career with Liverpool, he went on to manage several leading clubs across Europe including Real Madrid, Real Sociedad and Besiktas.
His son and ex-Leeds United assistant Cameron, now coaching in Thailand, said his father has "good days and bad days". "It's a terrible disease," he told the Daily Mail. , external John Toshack's story: A Swansea football fairytale.
Video, 00:04:21 John Toshack's story: A Swansea football fairytale "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 [Real] Sociedad or [Real] Madrid, the detail is amazing. "The other day he was telling me about a Real Madrid game against Arrigo Sacchi's AC Milan and exactly how he tweaked his midfield to deal with Marco van Basten.
"The game could have been yesterday, his memory was so clear. " John Toshack and Kevin Keegan (far right) speaheaded a golden period for Liverpool during the 1970s Liverpool icon Toshack previously spent two weeks on a ventilator in a Barcelona hospital after contracting Covid-19 and pneumonia. In November 2022 he said he had been "seriously ill", adding: "When I think back on it now, it's frightening.