{"id":67087,"date":"2022-02-27T10:55:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T10:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=67087"},"modified":"2022-02-27T10:55:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T10:55:14","slug":"liverpool-legend-john-toshack-in-intensive-care-as-he-battles-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/liverpool-legend-john-toshack-in-intensive-care-as-he-battles-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool legend John Toshack in intensive care as he battles Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Liverpool legend and former Wales manager John Toshack is in intensive care after suffering complications in his battle against Covid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Respected Basque daily El Diario Vasco says the 72-year-old\u2019s condition has worsened in the last few hours after medics confirmed he was suffering \u201cserious pneumonia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toshack, who had a successful managerial career with the likes of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/real-madrid-cf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Real Madrid<\/a>&nbsp;and Real Sociedad, is said to be at a hospital in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/fc-barcelona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barcelona<\/a>&nbsp;where he lives with his wife Maite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There has not yet been any official comment from his family or the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local reports said the Welshman, who began his playing career with hometown club\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/dunya\/dunya-futbolunun-efsane-ismi-john-toshack-covidten-yogun-bakima-alindi\/\">Cardiff<\/a>\u00a0City before joining\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sn_ULCDUxrE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liverpool<\/a>\u00a0in 1970 and going on to form a brilliant partnership with Kevin Keegan, was admitted to hospital on Monday after falling ill at the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has reportedly been in intensive care ever since, with his oxygen levels dropping dangerously and complicating his health situation in the last few hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former footballer, son of a Scots-born carpenter who moved to Wales while serving in the RAF where he met and married Toshack\u2019s mum Joan, has been on a ventilator since Saturday according to El Diario Vasco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His wife is understood to be at the unnamed hospital with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Liverpool fans were starting to react to the news on social media on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Irish Liverpool Reds said in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nationalturkcom\/status\/1497884650190118914?s=20&amp;t=5r0XTdiLHH_pYpzNSsA7-A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0message: \u201cWe send best wishes to our former player John Toshack who has been taken to hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spanish language Liverpool FC site Esto Es Anfield wrote: \u201cOur John Toshack, admitted in serious condition for Covid. He has been in the UCI in Barcelona for six days fighting against a severe pneumonia caused by Covid and since Saturday he needs mechanical ventilation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom here, all the strength for our great player.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Toshack helped Liverpool to win two league titles, the European Cup, the UEFA Cup on two occasions, and the UEFA  FA Cup <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His partnership with Keegan was so effective that the two were described as telepathic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He led Swansea City to three promotions in four seasons after leaving Liverpool to join Swansea City as player-manager in March 1978.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His feat resulted in former Liverpool manager Bill Shankly describing him at the time as the \u2018manager of the century.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He enjoyed two spells as Wales manager after managing clubs including Sporting, Real Sociedad and Real Madrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has a son called Jon Cameron, a former footballer and a Welsh professional coach, with former wife Susan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Toshack&#039;\u0131n Liverpool&#039;dan Real Madrid&#039;e kadar olan rekor dolu hikayesi Troller kime zarar verdi?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sn_ULCDUxrE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool legend and former Wales manager John Toshack is in intensive care after suffering complications in his battle against Covid. Respected Basque daily El Diario Vasco says the 72-year-old\u2019s condition has worsened in the last few hours after medics confirmed he was suffering \u201cserious pneumonia.\u201d Toshack, who had a successful managerial career with the likes &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":67090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,135,1,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-football","category-general","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}