Former Netherlands international Mark van Bommel has joined the coaching staff of Australia national team coach Bert van Marwijk as the assistant coach.<\/p>\n
The former AC Milan and Bayern Munich midfielder,\u00a0who is married to van Marwijk\u2019s daughter, worked with the Dutchman for two years as part of Saudi Arabia’s set up.<\/p>\n
Dating back to 2010,\u00a0van Bommel was a key figure in the Netherlands squad who reached the World Cup final under van Marwijk.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s my first year as head coach at PSV Under 19 with (fellow Socceroos assistant) Juergen (Dirkx) and the same like I was as a player \u2013 I want to achieve the highest level as possible,\u2019\u2019 van Bommel told\u00a0the Herald Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not saying now I want to win the Champions League but as a coach, you want to win the highest prizes you can win.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m developing, learning every day so when you\u2019re on the pitch every day it goes quicker than when you\u2019re with the national team.\u201d<\/p>\n With under three months until the Socceroos kick off their Russia campaign against France on June 61, van Bommel will team up with van Marwijk to focus on tactics and training intensity ahead of their\u00a0final warm-ups<\/a> against Norway and Colombia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former Netherlands international Mark van Bommel has joined the coaching staff of Australia national team coach Bert van Marwijk as the assistant coach. The former AC Milan and Bayern Munich midfielder,\u00a0who is married to van Marwijk\u2019s daughter, worked with the Dutchman for two years as part of Saudi Arabia’s set up. Dating back to 2010,\u00a0van Bommel was a key figure in the Netherlands squad who reached the World Cup final under van Marwijk. \u201cIt\u2019s my first year as head coach at PSV Under 19 with (fellow Socceroos assistant) Juergen (Dirkx) and the same like I was as a player \u2013 I want to achieve the highest level as possible,\u2019\u2019 van … Continue reading “Mark van Bommel joins Bert van Marwijk as assistant coach for Australia”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":11797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[637,110,579,1343],"class_list":["post-11775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-2018-world-cup","tag-australia","tag-bert-van-marwijk","tag-mark-van-bommel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}