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The 70-year-old decided not to tell the Netherlands players about his illness before making the revelation on television.

Netherlands manager Louis van Gaal has revealed that he has an "aggressive" form of prostate cancer.

The 70-year-old made the announcement on Dutch TV show Humberto on Sunday.

The coach says he has had radiation treatment 25 times so far.

What has been said?
Van Gaal said that he did not tell the Netherlands players of his illness and says his cancer is not terminal.

He said: "I think you don't tell people you work with like that because it might influence their choices, their decisions. So I thought they shouldn't know.

"You don't die from prostate cancer, at least not in 90 percent of the cases.

"It is usually other underlying diseases that kill you. But I had a pretty aggressive form, got irradiated 25 times. Then you have a lot of management to do in order to go through life."