Inaugural Melbourne Heart coach John van't Schip to lead A-League side for rest of season John Aloisi's sacking is just the first step in what must be an overhaul at Melbourne Heart, as the Fox Sports Shootout panel discusses. Melbourne Heart coach John van`t Schip. JOHN van't Schip will have just one session with the Melbourne Heart squad ahead of his first game in charge on Sunday against Central Coast Mariners, after he was last night confirmed as John Aloisi's replacement. Heart's inaugural coach will return to Melbourne on Thursday and take his first session on Friday before returning to the sidelines at Bluetongue Stadium on Sunday, where they are $6.50 outsiders to record their first win of the season. Spanish assistant Gerard Nus and youth team coach Joe Palatsides took yesterday's session at Epping Stadium and ironically it was the first time this season that the full squad was on the track, although marquee Orlando Engelaar and Jonatan Germano only did not contact work. Nus and Palatsides led a relatively high intensity and vocal 75-minute session, though no doubt the intensity will lift on Friday as players attempt to impress the returning coach. Van't Schip, who worked extensively with Marco van Basten at Ajax and Netherlands national team, had a six-month stint with Mexicans Guadalajara after leaving Heart. He was fired a day after the club commonly known as Chivas ended their relationship with Johan Cruyff as special adviser. Van't Schip, who turned 50 yesterday, has been employed by Heart since August as part-time technical manager to set up the Johan Cruyff football academy while mentoring Aloisi. Of the current squad Nick Kalmar, David Williams, Jason Hoffman and Aziz Behich played under van't Schip for two seasons while Mate Dugandzic joined in 2011-12. And Dutch pair Rob Wielaert and Engelaar were both signed on van't Schip's recommendation having coached the pair at Ajax and the Dutch national team respectively. The rest of the squad he is familiar with having watched no less than five of their games live while watching many more training sessions, the last of which being at AAMI Park the day before the 3-1 derby loss to Melbourne Victory. "Melbourne Heart is a Club that means a lot to me and deserves to be challenging for the finals," van't Schip said via a statement. I firmly believe we can turn the current situation around and produce some good results. There is still a lot of time left this season to change things and I am confident that we have a squad that can do that. Players such as teenagers Stefan Mauk and Ben Garuccio appeared to have a spring in their step yesterday, having been left on the periphery by John Aloisi while van't Schip was never shy to blood teenagers, with Curtis Good, Brendan Hamill, Craig Goodwin and Eli Babalj all handed debuts by the Dutchman.