Aussie star returns to see ill child

AUSTRALIA’S backup goalkeeper Brad Jones has had to leave the World Cup in order to be by the side of his four-year-old son Luca, who has been diagnosed with cancer.

Mon, 07 Jun, 2010 - 01:00

Jones’s Socceroo team-mates were reported to be devastated when they were told his son had leukaemia.

Jones last night arrived back in France to join his family.

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