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Notwithstanding his success in football, he is yet to replicate that in his managerial career. The legendary Dutch midfielder is currently married to Sophia Makramati. He is always arms-tight about revealing details of his private life. However, the tiny bits of information from his Instagram page reveals her as his partner.

So, it is not exactly known when the marriage took place. A regular feature of the couple is that they always attend business and public functions together. On the other hand, there are multiple reports of his first marriage to a Brazilian woman, Luvianna Seedorf. They share four children; three daughters and a son. They are Jaysyley, Jusy, Darjaene, and Denzel. Seedorf made a huge amount of money, especially from his soccer career. He may have made some cash from his brief media-related works, and his coaching jobs.

A post shared by Clarence Seedorf clarenceseedorf. He is open to trying other places as well. He started showing it before his retirement from playing. He has strong ethnic links with Suriname which happens to be the country of his birth before his family moved to the Netherlands.

As a result, he initiated many social development projects there. Prominent among is a stadium he built in the district of Para, which was named Clarence Seedorf Stadium.

The Dutchman met the late Nelson Mandela. After the meeting, Seedorf announced that he became the legacy champion of the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Two days after his official retirement from football, he was appointed as coach of AC Milan on 16th January After a year, he joined the Brazilian side Atletico Paranaense as a coach and sporting director.

He was then quickly scooped up by the club that had also discovered his future teammates like the De Boer brothers, Edgar Davids and Patrick Kluivert. His philosophy benefitted several young players at Ajax, and one of them was Seedorf. At the age of 16, Seedorf broke into the starting XI and finally had the opportunity to play with one of his icons, Rijkaard.

It was then no wonder that they went the entire season unbeaten and to do it with a squad that had the average age of 23 , was even more astonishing. As for the youngsters at the time, Seedorf was part of De Kabel — the group of three young players who were Surinamese-Dutch. The group consisted of Seedorf himself, Davids and Kluivert. Michael Reiziger and Winston Bogarde are said to have joined the group later.

This group of players formed a solid backbone of that Ajax side as well as the national team at the time. Alongside the experienced Rijkaard, this group took great inspiration from a club legend who shared their cultural heritage. While it was certainly an exciting time for a young player at Ajax. In stark contrast to most managers at the time, the Dutch tactician believed in honing home-grown talents and immediately grew close to youngsters like Reiziger, Davids, Seedorf and later Kluivert as well.

Both the youngsters were tasked with exhausting responsibilities in the side. Playing alongside the experienced Rijkaard, both had to contribute to defensive duties when Ajax did not have the ball by helping the back three against getting outnumbered. At the same time, both Seedorf and Davids possessed an exceptional understanding of movement and technical ability that allowed them to penetrate opposition defences as well.

But alas, nothing good ever lasts too long. The Bosman rule had started to produce a ripple effect all over Europe and in , a young and ambitious Seedorf joined Italian side Sampdoria. In his one-year stint in the north-west of Italy, Seedorf was hugely impressive in his performances.

Fielded as part of the four man midfield that Eriksson usually favoured, Seedorf was constantly shuttling between attacking the opposition box and his defensive duties. He had similar responsibilities under Van Gaal at Ajax, so doing the same was not a problem at all for Seedorf.

Seedorf scored 7 times and provided 5 assists in all competitions in that season for Real Madrid. Seedorf's side won Brazilian club Vasco da Gama in the final match of Intercontinental Cup, and he provided an assist in that match. In the La Liga competitions they couldn't win the trophy either and became second behind rival side Barcelona.

That season wasn't good at all for Seedorf's side but it was his best season with the club statistically. He managed to score seven goals in all competitions and provided six assists for his teammates.

At the end of the —99 season,Real Madrid and Juventus wanted to swap Clarence Seedorf for Zinedine Zidane, but the deal did not go through and Zidane waited two more years before joining Real Madrid. Clarence Seedorf's role at Real Madrid became less prominent from summer of , during the tenure of Dutch manager Guus Hiddink at the club. During theee seasons playing for Inter, Seedorf couldn't help his team to win any major trophy.

In his first season with Inter, they reached to final match of Coppa Italia but lost the match on agreegate to Lazio where Seedorf scored Inter's only goal. Seedorf is remembered by Inter fans for his double against Juve on 9 March , both of which were superb long-range efforts. In three seasons playing for Italian club, Seedorf managed to score 14 goals in all competitions.

Clarence Seedorf played for Milan for a decade from to and in these years he won many major trophies with the Italian club. In season which was his first season with Milan he won the Coppa Italia and also won the UEFA Champions League for third time during his career to become the first player to win the UCL with three different clubs.

In that season Milan won the Coppa Italia which was the first time they had won the competition in 26 years.

The following season, , he won the Serie A title with Milan which was his fourth national league title of Seedorf's career. Seedorf appeared in all 13 competition matches and scored one goal against Shakhtar in their opening group match. They lost the final match against Liverpool where they led the first half and eventually lost on penalties, Seedorf didn't take a penalty-kick.

In the season, Seedorf reached to final match of UCL competition for the third time with Milan. They had to face again against Liverpool but this time they won in Athens, with Seedorf collecting his fourth Champions League medal. Clarence Seedorf was voted best midfielder of the Champions League at the end of the season. Seedorf played his th match at the Champions League against Celtic on 4 December Clarence Seedorf became the foreigner with the most appearances for Milan following a game against his former club, Sampdoria, which he scored in.

At appearances, he passed Nils Liedholm for this historic milestone. With scoring in that match he also became the ninth-highest scoring foreigner for Milan, with 58 goals. In season, Seedorf won his second Scudetto with Milan where he scored four goals in 36 appearances in Serie A. Seedorf added yet another medal to his trophy cabinet in the season which was his last with Milan.

He played the full 90 minutes in a 2—1 comeback win over rivals Inter Milan in the Supercoppa Italiana. On 21 June, Seedorf held a press conference announcing his departure from Milan, stating, "I am leaving after 10 wonderful years I leave a family".

Clarence Seedorf signed a two-year contract with Brazilian club Botafogo, on 30 June Seedorf announced his retirement from professional football on 14 January He announced that he is ending his playing career to take up the manager position at Milan following the sacking of Massimiliano Allegri.

The fact about Clarence Seedorf's international career is that he played 14 years for the Netherlands national team.

Seedorf received his first call up at the age of 18, on 14 December He scored on his debut in a match against. He was a member of Dutch squad in UEFA European Championships in , where his penalty miss proved decisive in the quarter-final shootout defeat to.

Clarence Seedorf also represented his country in Euro and , as well as the FIFA World Cup, and reached the semi-final of all three tournaments with his side but they never won any of these tournaments. In 14 years playing for Netherlands national team, Seedorf collected 87 caps and managed to score 11 goals for his country. Seedorf terminated his contract with Botafogo early in order to take on the managerial role at Milan and he was appointed as the new head coach of the club on 16 January He was dismissed by the club after only 4 months on the job, on 9 June and was replaced by former Milan teammate Flippo Inzaghi.

In July he was appointed manager of Chinese club Shenzhen. But he wasn't successful there too and after five months was replaced by Swedish manager Sven-Goran Eriksson. Within a month the deal was cancelled after both parties failed to reach an agreement.

At the end of the season, the club was relegated form La Liga and he left the club. Seedorf was appointed as the manager of Cameroon national team in August and was joined by former teammate Patrick Kluivert as his assistant manager. He was sacked in July after a disappointing Africa Cup of Nations, where his side was eliminated by Nigeria in the round of sixteen. Seedorf began his senior career with Dutch club Ajax in In three seasons playing for the club he played 90 matches in all competitions and managed to score 11 goals which all of them came in Eredivisie competitions.

Seedorf spent an unsuccessful season with Italian club Sampdoria in He scored four goals for the club in 34 matches that he played in all competitions.

He moved to Spain in to play for Real Madrid. In three seasons playing for Spanish club, Seedorf played matches in all competitions and scored 20 times.

In , Seedorf moved back to Italy to play for Inter. Seedorf played three seasons for the club and scored 14 goals in 93 matches that he played in all competitions. In he joined to Milan and spent a decade at the club. In ten seasons playing for his side, he managed to score 62 goals in appearances in all competitions.

He moved to Brazil to play for Botafogo in In two seasons, he scored 24 goals for the club and played 81 matches in all competitions.

About Clarence Seedorf's age, it should be mentioned that he was born on 1 April , so till now he has 44 years of age. Clarence Seedorf is regarded as one of the best midfielders of his generation and also one of the best in the history of football. The fact about Clarence Seedorf's playing style is that he was a hardworking and versatile player, who was gifted with pace, strength and notable physical attributes, which allowed him to play anywhere in midfield and contribute both offensively and defensively.

Seedorf primarily served as a playmaker in the center due to his significant tactical intelligence. He was also deployed as an attacking midfielder during his career. He's the only player in history of football to have won Champions League with three different clubs.