UEFA Champions League 2010 Final: Jose Mourinho vs. Louis Van Gaal

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Internazionale di Milano and Bayern Munich, both reigning champions in their countries' leagues respectively will host the unanticipated final of the year. Both teams have managed all their way from the group stage to the final stage to achieve the highest glory in Europe. Both Inter and Bayern Munich will have alot to talk about before, during, and after the game because of their way that has shown the world how soccer is meant to be played. Not only Inter and Bayern Munich will display their different systems to how to play the game, the tactics that both Louis Van Gaal and Jose Mourinho have brought to the field. This final will also demonstrate the ability of how the teacher, Louis Van Gaal has taught his fair student, Jose Mourinho in being successful soccer coaches in their respective teams.

Louis Van Gaal and Jose Mourinho met during the times from 1997 - 2000 in Barcelona F.C. when Van Gaal was picked to be Barcelona's head coach. Jose Mourinho was the translator for Van Gaal shortly because of his inability to understand the Spanish language very much. Jose Mourinho's ability to study their rivals amazed Van Gaal because he was very well informed of their rivals. Mourinho was then shown to many as Louis Van Gaal's shadow because he was then comprehesive on his discipline and tactics of defense and attack offensively to the rival. With this code, Mourinho's takeover of Porto in 2004, winning the Champions league, and two leagues with Chelsea in 2005 and 2006, and the last resort to Italy's Internazionale, 2009 and 2010.

Van Gaal's success with Bayern Munich is now marked an icon among German fanatics because of his ability to pull the team's morale and become champions in the Bundesliga and the German Cup. Van Gaal is not new at these finals because he then coached in 1995 to Ajax of Holland and led to the winning title against A.C. Milan, Inter's eternal rival. With this Champions League final, this will be the third time a manager handled to win the title with two different teams, with Austrian interational Ernst Happel with Feyenoord in 1970 and Hamgurg in 1983 and German coach Ottmar Hitzfield with Dorthmund in 1997 and Bayern Munich in 2001.