{"id":10245,"date":"2026-01-07T18:27:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=10245"},"modified":"2026-01-07T18:27:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T18:27:34","slug":"kevin-keegan-diagnosed-with-cancer-former-england-player-and-manager-undergoing-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=10245","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Keegan diagnosed with cancer: Former England player and manager undergoing treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former England striker and manager Kevin Keegan has been diagnosed with cancer. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Keegan had an illustrious playing career which included spells at Liverpool, Hamburg and Newcastle United, while he twice won the European Footballer of the Year award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He moved into management after ending his playing career and had stints in charge of Newcastle United, Fulham, England and Manchester City.     <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Kevin was recently admitted to hospital for further evaluation of ongoing abdominal symptoms,&#8221; the 74-year-old&#8217;s family said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These investigations have revealed a diagnosis of cancer, for which Kevin will undergo treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Kevin is grateful to the medical team for their intervention and ongoing care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;During this difficult time, the family are requesting privacy, and will be making no further comment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">More to follow.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Kevin #Keegan #diagnosed #cancer #England #player #manager #undergoing #treatment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former England striker and man&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}