Louis van Gaal is coming out of football retirement after being hired by former club Ajax as an advisor.The Amsterdam club are 15th in the 18-team Eredivisie table and have not won a match since the opening weekend despite a significant summer rebuild. They failed to qualify for the Champions League last term for the first time in 13 seasons.The four-time European champions announced on Tuesday that 72-year-old Van Gaal would advise the Ajax Supervisory Board "on football technical matters." "I want to help Ajax. I currently spend a big part of my life in Portugal, and this can be well combined with my role as an external advisor," Van Gaal said in a statement on the Ajax website.Van Gaal said the club must find its way "back up to the top, and we all have to contribute to that."Van Gaal, who said last year he was being treated for prostate cancer, led Ajax to Champions League glory in 1995.He also has coached clubs including Bayern Munich, Barcelona and M
Manchester United have been booed off after a 3-2 Champions League defeat to Galatasaray at Old Trafford, which leaves them bottom of group A.Having lost their Group A opener at Bayern Munich and fallen to a fourth defeat in seven Premier League matches on Saturday, United's misery continued in a chaotic, error-ridden encounter.Rasmus Hojlund scored a superb second after his opener was cancelled out by Galatasaray's grinning former United forward Wilfried Zaha, only for Ten Hag's men to spectacularly unravel. Kerem Akturkoglu equalised and summer signing Andre Onana's woeful pass out straight to Dries Mertens led to a poor Casemiro recovery challenge that saw the Brazil midfielder sent off and a penalty awarded.The goalkeeper guilty of a costly gaffe in Munich was relieved to see Mauro Icardi strike the spot-kick wide, but the striker swiftly made amends as United fell to a third Old Trafford loss of the campaign.The Athletic writers give their verdict below.
Veteran coach Louis van Gaal is coming out of soccer retirement to help get Dutch power Ajax back on track after its worst start to a season in decades. The Amsterdam club, a four-time European champion, announced late Tuesday that 72-year-old Van Gaal will advise the Ajax Supervisory Board “on football technical matters.” Under new…
Louis van Gaal will try to help rescue Ajax from the club’s current crisis situation by becoming an advisor to the supervisory board. The former manager of the men’s national team will not take a seat on the board himself, but will help the club with technical football matters as an external advisor. Ajax announced the decision on Tuesday after the recent news of supervisory board member Jan van Halst’s impending departure. He will leave the team when his contract as interim CEO expires, the Amsterdam club said.
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