"This is difficult in China because it is a very big country. Yet, you should have to try to achieve the best always playing against the best. But you cannot just copy the Dutch system. You should always look at the culture of the country. After doing this, you choose your solutions. You have to be there to talk with expertise."
Next week Van Gaal will be in China to coach the Dutch team and maybe also share some of his knowledge. At least the Dutch football association KNVB will do so. On June 9 the Dutch coach will give a clinic with his assistants Danny Blind, Patrick Kluivert and Frans Hoek, together with Dutch legend Ruud Gullit, to Chinese kids in the Olympic football stadium in Beijing.
In addition, special knowledge sharing sessions will be organized on the match day, June 11. During the meetings representatives of both countries will talk about development, scouting, coaching, refereeing and management.
"Personally I will not attend these sessions, but I will be giving a clinic," said Van Gaal. "We have a department, World Coaches, which is also used to transfer knowledge of how we do it in the Netherlands. And we will transfer that to the coaches in China. Then we can tell about a good infrastructure and how to make China develop in football."
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