Dutch national coach Louis van Gaal announced in early April that he had cancer. Here, the former Manchester United coach said he is battling prostate cancer.
Now the English media The Athletic writes that the 70-year-old Dutchman has been out with the good news that his treatment has been successful.
- I've been through everything. I got 25 radiation treatments. Then I had to wait five or six months to see if it had done its job. It had it, says van Gaal.
The legendary coach has a negative past with the disease when he lost his wife, Fernanda Obbes, to liver and pancreatic cancer in 1994.
- I have been through a lot with diseases, also with my own wife, van Gaal has previously told Dutch TV .
On the Dutch national team, Ronald Koeman takes over the helm after the World Cup finals in Qatar.