Former Chelsea manager Gianluca Vialli has revealed that he has overcome a battle with cancer.
The 54-year-old is still revered as a Blues legend, having played for the club between 1996 and 1999 - winning the FA Cup, the League Cup, the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup - and also managed at Stamford Bridge between1998 and 2000, again lifting the FA Cup, and the two European trophies.
Villa won over 50 caps for Italy but has been out of football since 2002, when he left a managerial role with Watford.
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The ex-Juventus star has subsequently worked as a pundit, and was employed by the BBC during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, and has now revealed that, during his time out of the limelight, he has struggled with, and beaten, cancer.