As a coach, Van Nistelrooy has retained his obsession with perfection.
He turned a coach within the PSV academy after retiring from taking part in in 2012 and was promoted to first-team supervisor in 2022.
Van Nistelrooy resigned in 2023 after successful the Dutch Cup and ending second within the Eredivisie in his solely season in cost – and he was not in need of provides.
However, as an alternative, he took a yr out to be taught from different coaches world wide at golf equipment corresponding to Spanish giants Actual Madrid and Argentine powerhouses Boca Juniors and River Plate.
“He is not a proud man in that method, he is not smug. He wished to bounce his personal concepts off others,” Marcel van der Kraan, sports activities editor of Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, instructed BBC Sport.
“On his dream soccer journey, he went to all the large video games. He spoke to Martin Demichelis, the River Plate supervisor, for hours about teaching.
“He additionally went to expertise the soccer tradition. He instructed me he walked by La Boca in Buenos Aires and noticed ‘the eternity of Maradona’ painted on the partitions in tribute to the Argentina legend.
“He stated, ‘It’s worthwhile to win the tradition of an space’.”
