(Reuters) - Manchester United and Scotland great Denis Law has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and vascular dementia, the 81-year-old said in a statement https://www.manutd.com/en/news/detail/denis-law-issues-statement-over-alzheimers-and-vascular-dementia-diagnosis on Thursday.
Striker Law, who won the Ballon d'Or in 1964 and is third on United's all-time list of corers with 237 goals in 404 matches behind Bobby Charlton and Wayne Rooney, said that the road ahead would be"hard, demanding, painful and ever changing.
"This has been an extremely difficult year for everyone and the long periods of isolation have certainly not helped." "You hope that it won't happen to you, even make jokes about it whilst ignoring the early signs because you don't want it to be true," Law added.
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