John Toshack has been admitted to a hospital in Barcelona in a serious condition. The former coach of Real was hospitalised on Monday night in an Intensive Care Unit in the Catalan capital due to severe pneumonia from Covid.

The last few hours things have reached quite an extreme and he has very low blood oxygenation. The Welshman began to feel ill last weekend but felt he could overcome the symptoms. He was immediately admitted in to the intensive care unit, Tosh has a full vaccination schedule.

This morning he is suffering with breathing difficulties, and he needs mechanical help to keep his breathing stable His wife, Maite is being kept informed. Known in Catalonia as the ‘the Basque of Wales’ She has said to our contact “John has always been a strong and stubborn man and I’m sure he’ll get his way this time too. Of course he is not going to give up and we have to trust that in the next few days his condition will improve”

A few months ago Tosh had to undergo back surgery, his health until last weekend was good.

Toshack, who for many years has had his habitual residence in Barcelona, ​​will be 73 years old on March 22nd and keeps his enthusiasm intact for everything that happens in the area and its surroundings.

Tosh has always enjoyed to eat the ‘menu de la Real’, which is none other than Roman hake and the rice that he once ate in Salduba when he lived in San Sebastián. Now, every weekend in Barcelona he repeats the menu, and even when he was in the hospital he didn’t want to miss it. To closely follow everything that happens in the city, he loves reading EL DIARIO VASCO.

His connection with San Sebastián continues to be great and whenever he can he comes to the capital of San Sebastian to spend a few days and be able to walk around La Concha. We wish Tosh the very best, he is a fighter and he couldn’t be in better hands.

Report and translation Pedro Soreota and Keith Haynes.

Photographs licensed from Reuters

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