Real Madrid, unknowingly, with the hiring of Leo Beenhakker, Ajax coach in that year of 1991, manages to encourage the appearance of one of the technicians who would give more than one headache to the white team. Louis van Gaal, at 39, takes over from the bench of the Amsterdam team. The rest is known history. The author offers us an accelerated master's degree in tactics, after analyzing more than 150 matches of the Dutchman in the different clubs where he was in charge. All schemes and systems used. Defenses of three, four and even five. Teams that play withdrawn, teams that are under a lot of pressure and teams that in defense mark man to man all over the field. Sets that develop a game of position and sets that have complete freedom of movement. Interesting situations are also shown on fixed pieces. All this tactical analysis concludes with a series of exercises that you can adapt to the training tasks of your own team. “My model has been Van Gaal. I studied more than 250 matches of their teams. By the time I got to 170, I guessed the changes he would make and realized that I had absorbed his thinking. Marcelo Bielsa.
Van Gaal Tactical
ANALYSIS OF THE DUTCH MASTER WITHTRAINING ACTIVITIES
