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Mourinho rates Man Utd's Van Gaal best coach at World Cup

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho is full of praise for Manchester United's Louis van Gaal over his World Cup success with Holland.

Mourinho pointed to what he considered was a weak Netherlands team and how Van Gaal had hauled them into the last four in Brazil - an achievement the 62-year-old may repeat at Old Trafford.

"Vahid [Halilhodzic], [Miguel] Herrera, [Jorge] Sampaoli, [Jorge Luis] Pinto, Jurgen [Klinsmann], [Jose] Pekerman - all of them [were] fantastic," Mourinho, Yahoo's Global Football Ambassador, said.

"But if I had to choose one, because I think he did a fantastic job with a team that, in my opinion, was not strong enough to reach where they got to, I would choose Louis van Gaal."

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