Willem van Hanegem looks in his column for the General Journal ahead of the World Cup in Qatar. The former trainer of Feyenoord, among others, wholeheartedly gives national coach Louis van Gaal the world title, although on the other hand he also fears crazy scenes around the 71-year-old coach. For the Dutch national team, the World Cup starts on Monday with the group match against Senegal.
“If Louis van Gaal does indeed succeed in guiding the the Dutch to the world title in Qatar, I hope that he will also become the first person on earth to reach the age of 150,” Van Hanegem writes with a joke in his weekly contribution to the newspaper. “Then he can talk about it for a long time. Because that is in him.” The columnist has a lot of appreciation for the trainer Van Gaal, but there are also characteristics of the national coach that he can tolerate less well.
Van Hanegem therefore hopes that not everyone will blindly adopt what Van Gaal prescribes. “A bit of resistance, it can’t hurt. Because Louis has of course had a tendency throughout his career to pretend we are all insane”, the the Dutch national coach receives as a point of criticism. “And there are a lot of people who go along with it, especially that whole army that he usually gathers around him when he starts working somewhere. Although I thought taking Edgar Davids was a great move,” Van Hanegem also shares. out compliment.
“A world title in December would be the crowning glory of his work and I would really give it to him, because Louis is just a nice guy at the core,” Van Hanegem knows from experience. “Although you should not meet him every day after that world title. Then you know what he is going to talk about.” The Netherlands also plays against Ecuador (November 25) and Qatar (November 29) in the group stage.
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