Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Entertainment
Sports
AC Milan
Ajax
Bert van Marwijk
Botafago
Clarence Seedorf
Dutch national team
Johan Derksen
Marco van Basten
Real Madrid
Tuesday, 29 October 2013 - 02:27
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

Seedorf Embitterd About Dutch Team

Clarence Seedorf is still a little embittered when he thinks about his last period at the Dutch national team. He feels unrecognized by the former national coaches Marco van Basten and Bert van Marwijk. The 37-year-old international, who at this moment plays as a midfielder at Botafago in Brazil, shared his reflections about that period on Monday evening in the program of Johan Derksen at RTL7. “Van Basten made a big mistake with me,” Seedorf told. “I don’t say that he was a bad trainer, but I didn’t like the way how he treated the players. Bad people management.” In the period towards EK2008, Seedorf didn’t want to play for the national team. He was then a player in the base team of AC Milan. When van Basten stopped as national coach, he wanted to play for the national team again. However, van Marwijk said that he wouldn’t ask Seedorf because he thought that a player like Seedorf shouldn’t sit on the bench. “That was really a weak argument,” the 87-times international told Derksen. “He shouldn’t be the one to decide for me if I can accept to sit at the side line. Somebody who is always at the base at AC Milan should always be called to join the national team. Even if I had to sit on the bench and had to fight my way into the field, no problem for me. Deep inside I am still hurt about that.” Clarence Seedorf - wikipedia Seedorf has had a long and fruitful career until today. At this moment he is the most important player at Botafago and his assists always lead to winning goals. He has been the first player to have won the Champions League four times with three different clubs: Ajax (1995), Real Madrid (1998) and AC Milan (2003, 2007). His ability to hold the ball under pressure and then time a pass to a runner off him, makes him extremely dangerous.

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • Over €100,000 raised for Rotterdam shooting victims
  • House damaged by explosion in Rotterdam; Explosion at home in Hoofddorp
  • Trade union FNV announces work stoppages in timber trade
  • Over 340,000 birds spotted during international bird count, starling at the top
  • Families can now house their loved ones in need of care in their backyard
  • €28,5 million in cocaine seized at Vlissingen port

Top stories

  • Over €100,000 raised for Rotterdam shooting victims
  • RKC goalkeeper Etienne Vaessen regains consciousness after on-field collapse
  • One dead and three injured after major fire in house in Gouda
  • Gas production in Groningen stopped after 60 years
  • RKC-Ajax suspended after goalkeeper Etienne Vaessen collapses unconscious
  • Seventh anniversary of the abduction of Amsterdam girl Insiya Hemani

© 2012-2023, NL Times, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Partner content