Category: Clarence Seedorf

Clarence Seedorf Cannot Save Deportivo

Clarence Seedorf, who was appointed to try and salvage the situation at La Liga side Deportivo La Coruna, would not be able to make considerable difference as the season draws to a close.

Deportivo continued their poor run, losing 2-0 at Girona and further compounding their woes in the Spanish top flight. With about ten games left, relegation is staring at the club in the face and there is nothing the AC Milan legend can do. Read more »

CLARENCE SEEDORF TO RETURN TO COACHING

AC Milan legend Clarence Seedorf is set to return to football management as per reports. The retired football star has had two attempts at management but he is set to have another go as talks are underway.

The former Netherlands international featured for Ajax, Real Madrid and AC Milan, having an illustrious career with four Champions League titles. After obtaining his badges, he got the opportunity to manage the struggling Milan side. He was sacked after only four months in a disastrous spell.
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Seedorf on Italian football

Former Inter and AC Milan midfielder believe that Italian football will recover and become one of the best in Europe again.

He said that there are already signs of it happening with Juventus having reached the final of the Champions League last season.

He believes that with the improvement of both Inter Milan and AC Milan the level of football in Italy will rise and they will become more competitive in the European competition.


Indeed there was a time when the likes of Inter Milan, AC Milan, Juventus, and Fiorentina was reigning in Europe and were winning European trophies. However with the decline of Serie A less world-class players wanted to play there and this brought about a decline in the level of Italian football.

But with AC Milan having new owners, they now have the financial muscles to attract the top players, and some pundits are even considering them to be a major threat to Juventus title. Read more »

AJAX’S LOSS CANNOT DIM SANCHEZ’S BRIGHT FUTURE

In a season that saw young Colombian Davinson Sanchez guide Peter Bosz’s defence to the second spot of the Eredivisie log and Europa League silver medal, the 20-year old by all standards have had it good.


Honesty commands the admission that prior to Stockholm’s final very few knew anything about the young man.

It’s so much so that the news of Lionel Messi recommending that Barcelona should do everything within their power to sign the youngster must have evaded our consciousness. You can’t really blame anyone for failing to recall an obscure name that came with an article carrying that of the Argentine.

If there was anything Europa league final taught us is that the Argentine was right. It didn’t take much time to figure out why so nor did his 18th minute deflection stop him from displaying his skills. One of the first noticeable things about the Colombian is his physical strength as Marcus Rashford will testify. He simply refused to give the English teen a breathing space and smartly nudged him off the ball time and again. Read more »

WENGER OPENS UP ON RVP

With nagging discussions and debate whether Arsenal star Alexis Sanchez would stay past the end of this season, Arsene Wenger has opened up on why he let Robin van Persie leave.


RVP joined rival side Manchester United in the summer of 2012 with former United coach Sir Alex Ferguson receiving him with open arms.

Fans are angry that Sanchez might exit the club the same way RVP did, as with other stars in recent years. Rival sides are keen on getting Sanchez. He has been linked with a move to Chelsea, Manchester City while reports claim Wenger would favour a move outside England to sides like Bayern Munich who are rumoured to be interested in the player.

“I let Van Persie go in the last year of his contract because he was 29, going to 30 and he was signing a long term contract. That is not the case with Alexis. I personally think he will sign and stay here. Even if he doesn’t sign a new deal, I will make him stay,” Wenger revealed. Read more »

Real can win title

Former Real Madrid midfielder Clarence Seedorf believes that Real Madrid can win La Liga this season.


He said that there is enough quality players and experience in the team and they should be able to sustain the pressure.

For him, it is important that Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale remains fit as they are the best players in the group. At the moment they are playing well, but it is important that they remain consistent as Barcelona is close behind.

Clarence Seedorf believes that the manager Zinedine Zidane has enough experience of top-level football and that he should be able to help the team win the league.

However, he admitted that Barcelona is close behind and that with players such as Messi, Suarez, and Neymar at the top of their game, Real Madrid does not have much room for errors. For him, it will all be down to which side remain consistent from now until the end of the season. Read more »

SEEDORF SACKED BY SHENZHEN

Clarence Seedorf has been sacked by Shenzhen FC after his failure to guide the football club to promotion and replaced him with Lazio boss Sven-Goran Eriksson.


Seedorf was just appointed by the Chinese club in the summer but could only achieve a ninth-place finish in China’s second tier. This is Seedorf’s second dismissal in his managerial career, having also been dismissed by Milan at the end of the 2013/2014 campaign.

Taking over from the Milan legend and former Netherlands midfielder is Sven-Goran Eriksson, who was just recently dismissed by Chinese top flight outfit Shanghai SIPG. Eriksson guided Lazio to the Scudetto in 2000 and has also managed Fiorentina and Roma in the Serie A during his managerial career.

The club released a statement thanking Seedorf and his coaching team for their devotion.

“Mr Eriksson is a world-renowned experienced manager. He has been coaching in China since June 2013, and is familiar with Chinese football. We hope his arrival will help Shenzhen attract the world’s attention and build the club into a name card for the city,” the statement read. Read more »

Seedorf believes in AC Milan

Former AC Milan and Netherland midfielder Clarence Seedorf believes that AC Milan is progressing well and that they should be able to compete for the title in the seasons to come.


He believes that Vincenzo Montella is doing a great job at AC Milan and that he has successfully amassed a team of young players that can bring the club forward. Clarence Seedorf believes that for a long time the club has made a mistake of signing expensive stars that have failed to deliver the goods.

He believes that the team now has some quality young players that can help move the club forward and believes that they are doing it well.

Clarence Seedorf said that AC Milan has been struggling for so long in the shadows of clubs such as Juventus and it is high time that they come back to the top of Italian football. He believes that Montella is the right man for the job and that he is doing a good job of building a team of young players. Read more »

YAYA TOURE HUMILIATED BY GUARDIOLA

YayaToure has been left out of the Manchester City squad set to participate in the UEFA Champions League group stages this season.


The move infuriated his agent Dimitri Seluk, yet he claims that the Ivory Coast international insists on forcing his way back to the squad.

“If he wins the Champions League for City this season, then I will travel to England and I will say on television that Pep Guardiola is the best manager in the world,” Seluk started out, speaking with reps of Sunday Mirror Sport.

“But if City don’t win the Champions League then I hope that Pep has got the balls to say that he was wrong to humiliate a great player like Yaya,” he posited.

The agent is infuriated that Yaya would not be playing in the continental tournament this year, until things change. Toure was believed would be transferred when Pep joined but he surprisingly decided to keep him. With time, it has become evident that Toure has no future at Etihad, yet with the mass exit of players this summer on loan deals, he has remained. Read more »

Clarence Seedorf regrets not competing in the Premier League

Clarence Seedorf has one of the most distinguished playing career out of any player in the world of football as the retired Dutchman has lifted just about every major club title there is to win and he has done it on numerous occasions with different teams.


The former Ac.Milan player won the UEFA Champions League title with Ajax, Real Madrid and with Ac.Milan. He is the first and only player that has managed to do win the European piece of silverware with 3 distinct clubs.

La Liga, Serie A, Eredivisie, UEFA Super Cup, these are just a few of the other titles that Seedorf has won throughout his career and the list goes on further and further.

However, even a player as successful as Clarence Seedorf has his own regrets as there a number of things that he didn’t do during his extensive and prolific career which includes being able to perform in some of the biggest clubs in the world such as: Ac.Milan, Real Madrid and Ajax.

“I was going to go from Sampdoria to Arsenal but then I went to Real Madrid. After Madrid, I talked with Manchester United and then Chelsea after Milan. But it never happened. You can’t have everything.” Clarence Seedorf said in a recent interview. Read more »