Van Gaal Failed In The Main Project Of the Old Age. How Do Not Want Louis To Finish
Van Gaal
We will definitely miss his experiments.
“I’m 71 and I look like a god.” Guess the author of the quote? It was Louis van Gaal who shocked journalists on the eve of the quarter-finals with Argentina. The coach got tired of the same questions about retirement, so he came up with new answers over and over again. But the general message sounded already then. He warned in advance that he would leave the national team after the World Cup. However, in the case of a new major job offer, he will think it over. There is no word yet on the finish line.
There is nothing surprising in this. It is difficult for many to imagine what the coach has experienced in recent years. Cancer is fatal. It eats you from the inside and takes all your strength. Few people imagine what it cost him not to give up and bring the Netherlands to the quarterfinals. Overcome the disease, but did not win one of the most important matches of his career.
Van Gaal
What do you associate Van Gaal with? Must be with a lot of clashes with the stars. Ibrahimovic called the coach a “pompous ass” in his autobiography. Ribery is just a “bad man”, and Lucio said that no one in football hurt him like this specialist. For Louis, there were no authorities for a long time. It’s probably hard to treat someone with respect when you’ve created one of the coolest projects of your time. The same Ajax that conquered everyone and won the Champions League. Perhaps, after this, the coach really got bored just grabbing trophies. He wanted to do it in style, in a way that only he understood football.
That’s why he quarreled with everyone at Barcelona, that’s why it didn’t work out for him at Bayern and everything became completely sad at Manchester United. No one understood what the English team was playing. Clueless ownership and brewing conflicts. For van Gaal, it was important to be a god, but in all these clubs, the roles were already written before him.
And here is the Netherlands, where, although there are top stars, they gather too rarely to get tired of the coaching ego. And there is also a bunch of talented young people who have looked at him with admiration since childhood. After all, in 2014 he brought the country to the semi-finals of the World Cup. Of course, it was a delight. And everyone wanted a repeat of the party.
Van Gaal
But the experimental essence of van Gaal has not gone anywhere. It seems that he is the only one who played in Qatar according to the 3-4-3 scheme – he tried it back in 2014, but then the players were not fully ready for it. This time everything went great – 0 losses since 2021. 0 – in Qatar during regular time. And then the same penalty shootout.
After Martinez’s final kick, he stood almost motionless for several minutes and looked at the field. His main experiment, where he put a lot of strength and almost all his soul, dropped out on the wrong day when he expected. And probably rightly so. The Netherlands was not even in the top 5 teams of the tournament in terms of base numbers and characteristics. But for Louis, the style was important. He aspired to him after that same period at Ajax.
He failed to create a dream project from the current Dutch national team. The team again went home without a title. But how do you want this charismatic man to not finish?
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