How Louis van Gaal delivers pure entertainment despite illness
Updated on 05/12/2022 at 17:00
The FIFA diary for the day reads: “Netherlands – day off”. Day off – it should be sometimes. Clear. Orangi will not play again until Friday in the quarter-final against Argentina. Everyone has to recover, including Louis van Gaal, the coach, Bundeskot, as the national coach in the Netherlands is called.
Louis van Gaal, at 71 years old, is the oldest participant in a World Cup. However, he has always found “I look a lot younger”. He himself remembers
Since the start of the World Cup, Van Gaal has been at a rhetorical high, and his performances have been pure entertainment
An Internet(r) star, he reached a new high point after the 3-1 Round of 16 defeat against the United States: kissed his defender Denzel Dumfries at the press conference, and when the team returned to the hotel and celebrated. The crew danced the great to “Waka Waka” the song of the 2010 World Cup. He also filmed it himself with his smartphone.
Louis van Gaal has been in Doha for nearly twelve years as a coach with Bayern Munich. The first winter training camp in Qatar. Van Gaal started a basic argument. In January 2011, the club planned to sign Schalke goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, but the fans in Munich were against it. The coach, who was already at odds with president Uli Hoeneß, picked up on the fans’ mood and said he would put Thomas. Kraft in his future place, young goalkeeper.
He was number 2 until then, but now he’s got a promotion from Van Gaal – Jorge Butt, the silent number one, has been demoted despite stable performances. Bayern Munich lathered and left the coach in charge for only a few months. Then he was fired. Louis van Gaal was not deterred. He’s twice coached the Netherlands, finishing third in the 2014 World Cup, and now believes: “We can be world champions. We say that too. Not only that we want it.”
Louis van Gaal is now a media darling
This was not always the case, as Van Gaal considers sports reporters incompetent and likes to make them feel that way. It’s the classic journalist who eats food. On the other hand, it offers useful content, which does not hide behind phrases and banners. On his good days, he’s adept at telling stories, which sometimes get intense. During his time at Bayern Munich, he proudly (and indeed unquestionably) reported on his intimate life with his wife: “Truus and I — we still made love.” He also revealed the details of: “The Spoon Pose”.
Truus is also located in Doha. She is his second wife, the first is dead. Truss got a promise from Lewis that after the World Cup his coaching career would end. So begins the last week of coach Van Gaal. or penultimate. Orangi has never been a world champion. With this title, Van Gaal would – at least in his perception – surpass his (dead) enemy Johan Cruyff as the Netherlands’ greatest savior. You can tell how the idea affected him. And what few people in Munich must think … Louis van Gaal is having fun.
Once again lackluster, but again ruthlessly effective: the Dutch dream of the first star continues. Eftal won the World Cup in the round of 16 outside the United States 3-1. Orangi is among the eight best teams in the world for the seventh time – led by Denzel Dumfries, who was directly involved in all three goals.
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