Stiliyan Petrov is to resume training with the Aston Villa first team this summer.
He's been out of football for more than four years, as he recovered from an acute form of leukaemia.
The 36 year old for Celtic star was diagnosed in 2012 and retired from football in 2013.
However he has been invited to join up with Villa squad for their pre-season, having been given the all-clear and is bidding to return to football.
Villa will be playing Championship football this season, having been relegated last season:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We can confirm <a href="https://twitter.com/StanPetrov19">@StanPetrov19</a> will join the first team for pre-season. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AVFC?src=hash">#AVFC</a> <a href="https://t.co/CcwlLjInOF">pic.twitter.com/CcwlLjInOF</a></p>— Aston Villa FC (@AVFCOfficial) <a href="https://twitter.com/AVFCOfficial/status/745934202101710848">June 23, 2016</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We can also confirm that <a href="https://twitter.com/StanPetrov19">@StanPetrov19</a> will join the squad for the training camp in Austria. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AVFC?src=hash">#AVFC</a> <a href="https://t.co/WaCBM33bAa">pic.twitter.com/WaCBM33bAa</a></p>— Aston Villa FC (@AVFCOfficial) <a href="https://twitter.com/AVFCOfficial/status/745934287208349696">June 23, 2016</a></blockquote>
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