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Manager<\/STRONG>

CLUB<\/U><\/STRONG>

Ajax
<\/STRONG>Eredivisie: 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96
KNVB Cup: 1992–93
Johan Cruyff Shield: 1993, 1994, 1995
UEFA Champions League: 1994–95; runner-up: 1995–96
UEFA Cup: 1991–92
UEFA Super Cup: 1995
Intercontinental Cup: 1995

Barcelona<\/STRONG>
La Liga: 1997–98, 1998–99
Copa del Rey: 1997–98
UEFA Super Cup: 1997

AZ
<\/STRONG>Eredivisie: 2008–09

Bayern Munich
<\/STRONG>Bundesliga: 2009–10
DFB-Pokal: 2009–10
DFL-Supercup: 2010
UEFA Champions League runner-up: 2009–10

Manchester United
<\/STRONG>FA Cup: 2015–16

INTERNATIONAL<\/U><\/STRONG>

Netherlands<\/STRONG>
FIFA World Cup third place: 2014

Awards and achievements<\/U><\/STRONG>

World Soccer Manager of the Year:<\/STRONG>
1995

Onze d'Or Coach of the Year:<\/STRONG>
1995

European Coach of the Year—Sepp Herberger Award:<\/STRONG>
1995

European Coach of the Season:
<\/STRONG>1994–95

Rinus Michels Award:<\/STRONG>
2007, 2009

Dutch Sports Coach of the Year:<\/STRONG>
2009, 2014

Die Sprachwahrer des Jahres (3rd place):
<\/STRONG>2009

Football Manager of the Year (Germany):<\/STRONG>
2010

Anton Geesink Award:<\/STRONG>
2015

Dutch Lifetime Achievement Award:<\/STRONG>
2017

France Football 18th Greatest Manager of All Time:<\/STRONG>
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Aloysius Paulus Maria "Louis" van Gaal (born 8 August 1951) is a Dutch football manager and former player who is the current head coach of the Netherlands national team. At club level, he served as manager of Ajax, Barcelona, AZ Alkmaar, Bayern Munich, and Manchester United, as well as having three 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, the club's second ever in its history. He moved to Bayern Munich in 2009, and in Germany won the Bundesliga, the DFB-Pokal, and reached the final of the UEFA Champions League, before returning to manage the Netherlands for a second time, 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 the FA Cup, before being dismissed in 2016. Despite previously announcing his retirement due to family reasons in 2019, Van Gaal returned to management in August 2021 when he was appointed as head coach of the Netherlands for a third time.<\/P>","e_index":1};