Aloysius Paulus Maria van Gaal is a renowned Dutch coach.
He was born in 1951 and the first team he played for was the Amsterdam amateur team RKSV ‘De Meer’. Since 1972 he played for Dutch Ajax, Telestar, Sparta Rotterdam and AZ with a four-season spell in Belgian Royal Antwerp.
Since 1986 he worked as an assistant coach of AZ and then Ajax. In 1991 Louis van Gaal headed Ajax and under his guidance till 1997 the team won the 1992 UEFA Cup, the 1995 UEFA Supercup, the UEFA Champions League, the Intercontinental Cup and became the Eredivisie champions thrice.
Louis van Gaal moved to Barcelona in 1997 and led the team to La Liga victory twice, Copa Del Rey and the UEFA Super Cup. In 2000 he resigned from Barcelona because he found it difficult to implement his tactics in spite of the achievements Barcelona had made.
In 2000 Van Gaal returned to Netherlands to coach the Dutch national team but in 2002 he had a short spell in Barcelona that wasn’t a success. He came back to Netherlands and in 2004 was appointed a technical director in Ajax though he left the team after internal conflicts.
In 2005 Louis van Gaal headed AZ and brought them to winning the Eredivisie in 2008/09 season.
In 2009 he became the head coach of Bayern Munich and started to implement new tactics, what confused the team’s management. He substituted experienced players and he came up trumps and Bayern Munich consequently returned its lost positions in the Bundesliga, finished runner-up in the 2010 UEFA Champions League and won the Bundesliga. The 2010/11 season was less successful and Van Gaal had to leave Bayern Munich.
In July 2012 he was appointed as the head coach of the Netherlands national team and won bronze medals of 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
In 2014 Van Gaal became the manager of Manchester United, replacing David Moyes after a miserable 2013/2014 campaign.
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