Louis van Gaal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Louis van Gaal

Dutch footballer and manager

Date of Birth: 08-Aug-1951

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Profession: association football manager, association football player

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Louis van Gaal

  • Aloysius Paulus Maria van Gaal OON (Dutch pronunciation: [lu'?i v?? '?a?l] (listen); born 8 August 1951) is a Dutch former football manager and player.
  • At club level, he served as manager of Ajax, Barcelona, AZ Alkmaar, Bayern Munich and Manchester United, as well as having two spells in charge of the Netherlands national team.
  • Van Gaal is one of the most decorated managers in world football, having won 20 major honours in his managerial career.
  • He is sometimes nicknamed the "Iron Tulip".Before his career as a coach, Van Gaal played as a midfielder for Royal Antwerp, Telstar, Sparta Rotterdam, Ajax and AZ.
  • He is also a fully qualified physical education teacher, and worked at high schools during his career as a semi-professional footballer.
  • After a brief spell as an assistant coach at AZ, Van Gaal served as the assistant under Leo Beenhakker at Ajax and eventually took over as head coach in 1991.
  • Under his lead, the club won three Eredivisie titles, the UEFA Cup, and the UEFA Champions League.
  • He moved to Barcelona in 1997 and won two league titles and one Copa del Rey, but left after disagreements with the club's hierarchy.
  • Van Gaal was then appointed at the Netherlands, but failed to qualify for the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
  • This preceded another brief spell at Barcelona, before he returned to AZ, where he won an Eredivisie title, and was hired by Bayern Munich in 2009.
  • In Germany, he secured the Bundesliga, the DFB-Pokal, and reached the final of the Champions League, but returned to the Netherlands, where he led the nation to a third-place finish at the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
  • He was then hired at Manchester United later that summer, where he won one FA Cup before being dismissed in 2016.

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