David Brooks took the plaudits when Wales gamers had been final collectively in March after scoring the 96th-minute equaliser in North Macedonia which preserved Craig Bellamy’s unbeaten document as head coach.

There have been extra congratulations for Brooks when the Wales squad reconvened for World Cup qualifiers in opposition to Liechtenstein and Belgium this week, however for completely totally different causes.

Brooks and spouse Flora revealed on social media earlier this week that they’re to turn into mother and father, with their child due on 1 November.

For Brooks, who was identified with most cancers in 2021, the information is particularly joyous given that there have been questions on whether or not this time would ever come.

“I at all times wished to begin a household. My spouse and I wished youngsters in some unspecified time in the future,” the 27-year-old says.

“Clearly once I was identified, you’ve gotten these conversations and there have been by no means any ensures that I might be capable to have youngsters sooner or later. There was an opportunity it would not have been doable.

“However I used to be actually fortunate that it got here naturally. After my remedy issues went again to regular, so after all I used to be actually joyful. There have been a couple of tears, however we’re actually trying ahead to it.”

Brooks was 24 when he was identified with Stage Two Hodgkin lymphoma in October 2021.

There have been “darkish instances” for the attacking midfielder however, after a number of months of chemotherapy, he was declared most cancers free in Might 2022.

He returned to first-team soccer with Bournemouth in March 2023 and was again within the Wales squad that summer time.