“I underwent 25 chemotherapies. Then I had to wait five or six months to see if it worked. And it worked,” the former coach of Bayern Munich, Barcelona or Manchester United said in an interview with ANP. He rejected earlier reports from the media that he was undergoing radiation treatment even at the time of national team events.
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“These radiation therapies were already behind me when I signed a contract with the union in August,” he told NOS public television. However, he admitted that he had to undergo surgery during treatment. “It’s just getting better now. It’s just a matter of time,” added the coach, who returned to the national team for the third time last summer as Frank de Boer’s successor, who resigned after losing to the Czechs in the Euro eighth finals.
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Three-time world runners-up The Dutch will appear at the world championships after eight years. In Group A, they will face Qatar, Senegal and Ecuador.
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