{"id":494787,"date":"2026-03-25T16:29:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/494787\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T16:29:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T16:29:17","slug":"john-toshack-wales-and-liverpool-great-diagnosed-with-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/494787\/","title":{"rendered":"John Toshack: Wales and Liverpool great diagnosed with dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool icon Toshack previously spent two weeks on a ventilator in a Barcelona hospital<\/a> after contracting Covid-19 and pneumonia.<\/p>\n

In November 2022 he said<\/a> he had been “seriously ill”, adding: “When I think back on it now, it’s frightening.”<\/p>\n

Despite the dementia diagnosis, Cameron says he still regularly receives coaching tips from his father.<\/p>\n

“I’ll talk to him about what we’re doing in Thailand and he still gives great advice,” he said.<\/p>\n

“As a manager, he could always see two or three moves ahead, and it was always in the genes for me, really.”<\/p>\n

John Toshack began his playing career with hometown club Cardiff City before joining Liverpool in 1970.<\/p>\n

He formed a lethal strike partnership with Kevin Keegan and won three league titles, two Uefa Cups, one FA Cup, one European Cup, a Charity Shield and a Uefa Super Cup during a glittering eight-year spell with the Reds.<\/p>\n

The Welshman joined Swansea City as player-manager in 1978 and famously led the club from the Fourth Division to the First with successive promotions, as well as three Welsh Cup titles.<\/p>\n

He won trophies in five of the eight countries in which he managed – including two spells with Real Madrid – with his most recent role coming with Tractor in Azerbaijan in 2018.<\/p>\n

Toshack was also pivotal in the development of Welsh stars including Gareth Bale, Aaron Ramsey and Joe Allen during his second stint in charge of Wales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool icon Toshack previously spent two weeks on a ventilator in a Barcelona hospital after contracting Covid-19 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-494787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}