Day 1: Coaching Principles of Louis Van Gaal
Make Smarter Coaching Decisions – With Less Trial and Error
As a football coach, you are constantly solving problems – from organisational challenges and staff dynamics to team performance and individual player development. Yet in today’s fast-paced, unpredictable football environment, relying solely on intuition often feels like guesswork.
This 1-day course is designed to help you become a more structured and effective decision-maker. You will learn how to replace trial-and-error approaches with more purposeful decisions based on 35 universal coaching principles developed by Louis van Gaal, the most successful coach in Dutch football history.
Over the past five years, Raymond Verheijen collaborated with van Gaal in a series of 20 in-depth, 3-hour conversations to analyse and theorise the methods behind his success. The result: 35 objective and universally applicable coaching principles that every coach can use at any level, in any coaching situation.
These principles are categorised into six areas:
1. Coach
2. Organisation
3. Staff
4. Squad
5. Team
6. Player
During the course, Raymond Verheijen will present each principle with clear, real-world examples from daily coaching practice, helping you connect theory to action immediately.
Course Program
08:00 – 09:30am: Coaching Principles to develop an ORGANISATION
09:30 – 10:00am: Coffee break
10:00 – 11:30am: Coaching Principles to develop a STAFF
11:30 – 12:30pm: Lunch break
12:30 – 02:00pm: Coaching Principles to develop a SQUAD/TEAM
02:00 – 02:30pm: Coffee break
02:30 – 04:00pm: Coaching Principles to develop a PLAYER
Day 2: Tactical Lessons Learned from World Cup 2026
Fans watch the World Cup; coaches see the World Cup.
Learn lessons from this summer’s World Cup and improve your ability to quickly recognise patterns in team and player performance with the analysis framework presented in this course.
Last summer, Raymond Verheijen analysed 2026 World Cup games at two levels: team intentions and individual intentions. He will share his ability to recognise the same patterns in different playing styles. Game by game, pattern by pattern. In particular, he will analyse defending tactical concepts for 1-5-4-1, 1-5-3-2, 1-4-4-2, 1-4-3-3 and 1-3-4-3 performance by Spain, Argentina, France and England amongst other countries. Raymond will pay special attention to the individual player analysis of top players like Rodri, Messi, Kane and M’Bappe amongst other World Cup players.
By the end of the course, you will see more of what you are watching.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Identify a team’s strengths and weaknesses before the end of the first half, so you can make adjustments at half-time.
- Analyse individual players within their team context, so you can amplify or reduce their impact on the game.
- Use team intentions and individual intentions as a structured analytical framework so you can recognise even stronger patterns within teams and players between games.
- Distinguish between what a team is trying to do and what individual players actually do.
- Apply the same tactical analysis framework Raymond Verheijen has used across 4 World Cups and 4 European Championships, reaching four semi-finals and one final.
Course Program
08:00 – 09:30am: Tactical Analysis France – Tactical Preparation before Game
09:30 – 10:00am: Coffee break
10:00 – 11:30pm: Tactical Analysis England – Tactical Coaching during Game
11:30 – 12:30pm: Lunch
12:30 – 02:00pm: Tactical Analysis Argentina – Closing the Centre: players switching position between lines
02:00 – 02:30pm: Coffee break
02:30 – 04:00pm: Tactical Analysis Spain – Closing the Wing: players switching position within lines
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Raymond Verheijen is the founder of Football Coach Evolution. He has worked as a coach and analyst at 4 World Cups and 4 European Championships, and has written multiple books on football periodisation and tactical analysis. His courses are followed by coaches and analysts across more than 100 countries.
Location
48 Woodleigh Park
Singapore 357844
Registration
For more information and/or registration, please contact us:
+65 8910 1717
resistenciafcsg@gmail.com
