{"id":710462,"date":"2026-06-02T13:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/710462\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:48:10","slug":"football-soccer-liverpool-great-dalglish-reveals-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/710462\/","title":{"rendered":"Football: Soccer-Liverpool great Dalglish reveals cancer diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 2 (Reuters) &#8211; Liverpool \u2060great Kenny Dalglish said on Tuesday that \u2060he is undergoing treatment for cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Dalglish, \u200cwho won over 30 trophies for Liverpool as a player and a manager, announced the diagnosis on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As \u200bmy inadvertent social media post \u2060has indicated, I am \u2060currently undergoing treatment for cancer. Unlike my mobile \u2060phone \u200cuse, the treatment is going well,&#8221; the 75-year-old wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ideally, this \u2060would have remained private because that&#8217;s the \u200bway it \u200cshould be, but my useless technology skills \u2060have forced \u200bmy hand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, I did not mean to make this matter public so I would appreciate it \u2060if the privacy of my \u200bfamily and myself are respected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dalglish scored 172 goals for Liverpool in 13 seasons as a player, \u2060winning six league titles and three European Cups during the Merseyside club&#8217;s glory years.<\/p>\n<p>He later took charge as manager, guiding the Anfield side \u200bto three league titles and \u2060two FA Cups in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Keegan, \u200banother prolific former Liverpool forward, \u200crevealed on Monday that he \u200bhas stage four cancer.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Rohith Nair in Bengaluru, editing by Ed Osmond)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 2 (Reuters) &#8211; Liverpool \u2060great Kenny Dalglish said on Tuesday that \u2060he is undergoing treatment for cancer.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,6675,85],"class_list":["post-710462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-na","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}