David Brooks took the plaudits when Wales gamers have been final collectively in March after scoring the 96th-minute equaliser in North Macedonia which preserved Craig Bellamy’s unbeaten file as head coach.
There have been extra congratulations for Brooks when the Wales squad reconvened for World Cup qualifiers towards Liechtenstein and Belgium this week, however for fully completely different causes.
Brooks and spouse Flora revealed on social media earlier this week that they’re to develop into dad and mom, with their child due on 1 November.
For Brooks, who was recognized with most cancers in 2021, the information is very joyous given that there have been questions on whether or not this time would ever come.
“I all the time wished to begin a household. My spouse and I wished children sooner or later,” the 27-year-old says.
“Clearly after I was recognized, you will have these conversations and there have been by no means any ensures that I might be capable of have youngsters sooner or later. There was an opportunity it would not have been potential.
“However I used to be actually fortunate that it got here naturally. After my remedy issues went again to regular, so in fact I used to be actually comfortable. There have been a number of tears, however we’re actually trying ahead to it.”
Brooks was 24 when he was recognized with Stage Two Hodgkin lymphoma in October 2021.
There have been “darkish occasions” for the attacking midfielder however, after a number of months of chemotherapy, he was declared most cancers free in Could 2022.
He returned to first-team soccer with Bournemouth in March 2023 and was again within the Wales squad that summer season.
