Louis van Gaal children: Brenda van Gaal, Renate van Gaal
Van Gaal was born in the Dutch city of Amsterdam.
He began playing for the Amsterdam amateur side RKSV de Meer as a child. At the age of 20, he joined Ajax’s second team but was never selected to play in the first team, which at the time featured midfielders such as Johan Cruyff and Johan Neeskens.
He was loaned to Royal Antwerp of the Belgian First Division, where he finished second in the Belgian top division in 1974 and 1975.
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