Van Gaal challenged the Argentine National Team and said he had the formula to mark Lionel Messi

Netherlands national team coach Louis van GaalWaiting for next Friday’s match against Argentina for the quarterfinals of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, he said that they still have “a pending account” with the Albiceleste team.

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“We have a pending account with Argentina because of what happened two World Cups ago,” he said on the news channel NOS the renowned coach.

About the 2014 World Cup match, where the National Team beat A Clockwork Orange on penalties, Van Gaal thought they were going to win the match. “I don’t like to think backwards. I thought it was ours”, recalled the DT.

Van Gaal said he wants to be world champion

The Netherlands coach did not shrink and believes big for this World Cup. “We want to be champions. We started training early and the players took advantage of that. Although it is not the greatest opportunity, we are going for it”, said Van Gaal, who calls on the fans to support them positively.

The story of Louis van Gaal: the hard man who was hit hard by life

Born in Amsterdam 71 years ago, Van Gaal is on the brink of retirement. Actually, on the verge of the third withdrawal from him, because he had already decided to stop training five years ago. But the possibility of leading his country’s team again put him back in the race, but with one certainty: it will be his last trip. And his dream is to be world champion.

Two years ago, some clinical studies gave him very badly. Y the diagnosis was blunt: prostate cancer. But not just any cancer, but an aggressive one that could take it away. Following the great premise of his life, that “the team is always ahead of individualities”, the coach prohibited those who knew of his status from telling the playersbecause it could affect their returns.

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His treatment covered part of the Qualifiers for Qatar 2022 and also the last Euro Cup and he just received a medical discharge this year, in April. “In most cases -he revealed in a recent interview- one does not die of prostate cancer. The most common is that it is the diseases that are derived from this type of cancer that end up being fatal ”.

The story of Louis van Gaal, the man who revived Dutch football

Talking about the Netherlands (or the Netherlands) in football is talking about Rinus Michels and Cruyff. From Ajax and “Clockwork Orange”. Y In the 90s, the Amsterdam team flourished thanks to Van Gaalwon several local titles and was once again in European consideration: in 1991/92 they won the UEFA Cup (now the Europa League) and in 1994/95 they won the Champions League and the Intercontinental Cup.

Half a year before starting that winning season, He experienced one of the great tragedies of his life: in January 1994, his wife Fernanda Abbes died of pancreatic and liver cancer. They had been together since 1969. As always in the Van Gaal structure, the individual was in the background, and in the middle of their duel he faced what ended up being the best season of his career at Ajax.

He thought about retiring from the technical direction after the 2014 World Cup, in which he came out third, gaining that place from Brazil after losing the semifinal with Sabella’s Argentina, the day Chiquito Romero became a hero in the series of penalties. But he agreed to be Ferguson’s successor at Manchester United.

He spoke of retirement again in 2017, this time through the pain of his daughter and his own after death, a short time apart from his son-in-law and his younger sister. But the call to his “last dance” with the national team could do it. At 71, he is already in the quarterfinals of Qatar, having eliminated the United States. And true to his style, with his scheme above all else, He wants to go for his pending dream, to be world champion.