What can Manchester United expect from goalkeeping coach Frans Hoek?
Manchester United goalkeeping coach Frans Hoek has revealed how he and the new coaching team are striving for perfection at Old Trafford and he also spoke of his close relationship with manager Louis Van Gaal.
Hoek, who enjoyed a 12-year playing career in his native Holland with FC Volendam from 1973-1985, joined United this summer following Van Gaal’s appointment.
And Hoek is one of his compatriot’s trusted lieutenants having worked alongside Van Gaal at Ajax, Barcelona, Bayern Munich and the Netherlands.
Speaking to the Official Manchester United website, Hoek touched upon his philosophy and association with Van Gaal, which has yielded many successes over the years:
“It’s like we both are searching for perfection. For goalkeeper coaches, this is more normal than regular coaches as we know, as a goalkeeper, when you make a mistake, it could be very painful. So we try to work to perfection – to make as few mistakes as possible. What I find with Louis is we’re both physical educators and have Masters degrees in Physical Education so we hit each other there as well.
“We are not like former players who did not have a University education as well, so we meet each other there and, as well as looking forward to the feeling of being a player, we also have scientific backgrounds that we really use in teaching and developing and stuff like that.”
Hoek has worked with some of the world’s best keepers, including Edwin van der Saar, Victor Valdes and Pepe Reina, and went on to explain how he is always learning and never shackled by repetition:
“We still develop every day. There is no routine. [There's] no ‘we did it like that so we do it again’. Every day is a challenge and completely different. I haven’t seen two days the same as long as I’ve worked with him. You cannot be in a routine – you have to develop.”
Hoek will work with David de Gea, who was United’s best player last season, and improved under former goalkeeping coach Chris Woods.
The Dutchman will be tasked with continuing to develop the Spaniard’s game, especially with regards to set pieces and anticipation, as this helps to relive the pressure on the defence.
United’s back line struggled last season but if Hoek can improve De Gea further, this will enable the rest of the defence to better adapt to Van Gaal’s new 3-5-2 system, which perfectly suits the Spaniard’s game given his excellent distribution.
Furthermore, in an article published earlier this year in the Manchester Evening News, the paper referenced an interview that Hoek gave to UEFA in 2012, where he spoke of his ideas and championed competition to push keepers on.
When addressing what made Valdes and Reina “exceptional” when they were both 16-year-olds at Barcelona, he said:
“For their age, they had like the perfect build physically,
“The second thing is they were incredibly ambitious, they were actually pushing each other to a very high level and they were very willing to improve themselves so at the moment I saw them, first of all I didn’t believe they were 16 years of age and secondly the way they were performing and presenting themselves – that was incredibly impressive.”
This gives hope to young goalkeepers Ben Amos and Sam Johnstone and from next season Vanja Milinkovic, with the Serbian recently acquired from FK Vojvodina.
The new coaching setup have a superb track record of nurturing and bringing young players through and following a dismal campaign last season, United fans have cause for optimism this year, especially given the impact the new staff have made in pre-season.
While some may argue that it’s only pre-season, Van Gaal and his team have entered Old Trafford with a very clear philosophy, ideology and system.
They have made an immediate and positive impression in just a few weeks at the club and it will be intriguing to see how the team and players develop over the course of the season.
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Saya malah melihat potensi yang bagus ada didiri Joel Perreira, badannya makin kekar. Sejak musim lalu dapat pujian hingga melejit dari U17-18 hingga ke U21. Tadi juga main difinal Manchester Senior Cup lawan City reserve. Sudah banyak kiper top yang dihasilkan om Frans, ditunggu yang selanjutnya.