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19 YEAR OLD CANCER SURVIVOR MAKES MANCHESTER UNITED’S EUROPA SQUAD

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Manchester United have called up central defender Max Taylor to their Europa League squad 12 months after the 19-year-old had chemotherapy for testicular cancer.

The academy graduate, who made his comeback for United’s under-23 side last month, could make his first senior appearance in Thursday’s match against Astana in Kazakhstan with manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer set to field a number of teenagers.

United have already qualified for the knockout phase from Group L with three wins from four matches.

“The position I was in this time last year, I was in my first few weeks where I had chemotherapy, I wouldn’t have thought, a year on, I’d be travelling with the first team,” Taylor told the club’s website.

“It doesn’t matter what the environment is like, just being out there is massive. It’s been a dream since I can remember ever kicking a ball – being a United first-team player.”

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-Reuters

Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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