Footballer Clarence Seedorf: biography, games, personal life and interesting facts

Clarence Seedorf - Dutch football player, known for his performances in top European clubs. Career famous midfield four times raised above his head cup Champions League, and three times as part of different clubs, which in itself is a unique achievement. According to one of the most authoritative publications of European Football, Seedorf is ranked seventh in the tournament's history.

Clarence Seedorf: biography, matches, career

Clarence Clyde Seedorf - a native of Suriname - state, better known as Dutch Guiana. He was born in June 1976 in the family of former professional football player Johan Seedorf. In the family, except for Clarence, he had two sons - Chadwick and Jurgen.

The family left South America when he was only two years old and moved to Dutch Almere. Here, after 4 years of Clarence became engaged at the Academy of the local football team. A year later, the young Seedorf has joined the ranks of athletes nursery school "Ajax", where the guy quickly considered a huge potential.

The Amsterdam club Clarence Seedorf has become part of the golden generation of the 90s, which seemed to be on the shoulder any obstacles. Kluivert, Overmars, Reiziger, Rijkaard, the brothers de Boers and many others - these names are expensive, and in the figurative and literal sense. After the triumph in the Champions League final in 1995 most of these stars have already taken place "pilfered" across Europe's top clubs from the leading championships.

There was an exception and Clarence Seedorf. Football has prepared many more interesting things to come for him. At nineteen, he was almost a national hero, has not changed this status and later - during the long years of performances in Spain and Italy, and in the twilight of a career - and in Brazil.

On your marks, get set, go!

In Amsterdam "Ajax" Seedorf had to spend three seasons, however, in addition to the already mentioned European Cup, the midfielder had twice become the champion of the Netherlands and once triumfovat with the team in the National Cup and Supercup country. More coveted career start, perhaps, and think hard. More surprising, that while former teammate Clarence dispersed in the "Barcelona", "Milan" and other grandees of the time football, Seedorf joined the rather modest "Sampdoria". However, it was clear to all that Genoa - this is just a staging post on the Dutchman's path to success.

Galaktikos

At the age of twenty years, Clarence Seedorf tried on the shirt of Madrid "Real", and it was him at the time. Already in the first season of jet midfielder won the Spanish championship with the team, and even a year later - the second for himself a cup of the Champions League. At 22, he was already behind the trophies at times more than most of the average European players wins of his career.

The downside of such status - the players often enough, they say, "catch a star" or "burn out". In the case of Seedorf was no hint of any lack of professionalism. The talented midfielder and then gave himself on the field, is firmly entrenched at the heart of the capital giants. Only with the arrival of the team of Guus Hiddink became Clarence periodically fall out of the new mentor scheme and at the end of the 1999-2000 season. It was put on the transfer list.

By the way, get away from the Club of Madrid and Seedorf could the year before. Player actively interested in Turin "Juventus" and was even ready to give in exchange for midfielder its main star - Zinedine Zidane, but the Frenchman was to leave the "Old Lady", only two years later.

Moving to Italy

Transfer to the "Internationale" in 2000 cost the Milan club 23 million euros. Midfielder well in the blue-black T-shirt, but to win something with the team for two years and failed. "Inter" leadership was interested in extending the contract, but against the move turned out to be the football player. Clarence Seedorf is clearly superior to the then level of "blue-black", so the transition to a more ambitious and award-winning team suggested itself.

Transfer to the "Milan"

Interestingly, the players do not even have to leave the city. From the "Giuseppe Meatsa" He migrated to the "San Siro", which, as it turns out later, delayed by as much as ten years. Going into the camp principled opponent frequently broke his playing career, but in the case of "Inter" and "Milan", it was a common practice. Seedorf moved to camp "Rossoneri" and followed perspective Francesco Coco-back in the reverse direction. The latter, incidentally, was not able to open fully due to the exposure to injury.

The "Milan" Clarence Seedorf with Gennaro Gattuso and Andrea Pirlo is not the strongest formed a triangle in center field. Dutch footballer immediately won his third career in the Champions League, and helped the team win the Italian Cup, which it has not happened for nearly thirty years. In the 2003-2004 season the player has added to its "portfolio" victory in the Italian championship and finally fixed in the basis of the Milanese, playing virtually no changes. In the stands, "San Siro" can often be heard that the Dutch - "two-wire" or that he "does not sit battery."

Another triumph in the Champions League

In the 2006-2007 season. footballer Clarence Seedorf played his hundredth match for the "Rossoneri", and the crown of the football year was another triumph in the Champions League. In the final, he was defeated "Liverpool" and "Milan", so took the "red" revenge for the defeat two years ago. Clarence Seedorf was named the best player of the tournament. In the same year, "Rossoneri" won also the Club World Cup.

By the end of the decade the team has left several important veterans team, but "Milan" was able to regain the Scudetto in the 2010-2011 season's. By that time, we have long been rumors about his retirement and the Dutch midfielder. In the summer of 2012 he left the football team in tears, and the audience at the "San Siro" chanted the name of the player for a long time after the completion of the last match of the season.

retirement

Dutch veteran, however, at the age of 36 years has felt the need to play, so I agreed to the proposal of the Brazilian "Botafogo" and the following two years he played in the local championship. For "victorious" Clarence played 58 matches and 16 times managed to distinguish himself in the gate opponents. In January 2014 the Dutchman announced the end of his playing career.

In the national

From 1994 to 2008 Seedorf consistently been called to the national team of the Netherlands national football team. As part of "flying Dutchmen" Clarence took 4th place at the 1998 World Cup, which was held in France. Twice more football with the team won the bronze medal at the European championships - in 2000 and 2004.

Coaching

Two days after the completion of a career in the media player, it was announced that Clarence Seedorf - the coach, "Milan" and his duties with the newly coach starts January 16, 2016. In his debut match under new coach "Rossoneri" beat "Verona", but it should continue the situation is not received, and the once formidable "Milan" continued to languish in mid-table.

Dutch specialist contract was originally designed for six months, so in the summer, before the start of the new championship, the club and the coach came to a mutual decision to terminate the joint venture. The next place of work Clarence Seedorf was the Chinese "Shenzhen, where the coach he worked until the end of 2016, handing control of the famous Swedish specialist Sven Goran Eriksson.

recognition

Dutch midfielder in 22 years of sports career managed to gather a lot of awards, both personal and team. Perhaps, whether the Dutchman four hands, he would still have been able to count on one hand all his trophies and regalia. Itself, important and significant of them are getting into the top 100 players on the version of FIFA in the history of this sport. What to say, if after several years after the end of his career in the Netherlands one of the best-selling T-shirt T-shirt is "Ajax" that says Clarence Seedorf.

Clarence Seedorf, in the meantime, and as a footballer and as a public person - a very modest, that in modern sport - a rarity. Speaking at the center of the field at the position where the violation of the rules - the phenomenon of the discharge "in the order of things," Seedorf managed to finish the regular season with the number of yellow cards in less passive than the other teammates. Red card for the player and does he saw before him only twice in his life, one of which - at sunset performances in Brazil, "Botafogo" due to misunderstanding of the elementary requirements of this match. Since December 2016 Seedorf took a break in the coaching business, but knowing the character of the Dutch specialist, we can safely say that this is just another stop, and not finish the way.