Seedorf seals deal with Brazil's Botafogo
Reuters - Sunday 01 July 2012, 02:28
Brazilian top-flight
club Botafogo have agreed to sign 36-year-old Dutch midfielder
Clarence Seedorf on a two-year deal, his new side announced on
Saturday.
"He's the greatest foreign player ever to sign for a
Brazilian club," Botafogo president Mauricio Assuncao told
Reuters in a telephone interview after the club made the
official announcement on their website.
"He is really not coming for money. He is a player driven by
challenges and he told me that Brazilian football is where he
can play at a high level for another two years. He is not coming
only to visit," Assuncao added.
The Dutchman, who ended a 10-year spell with Italian giants
AC Milan earlier this month, has a Brazilian wife and often
spent holidays at a beachfront apartment in Rio de Janeiro,
local media reported.
The midfielder won two of his four Champions League titles
with Milan and was one of several older players to leave the
Serie A club at the end of last season.
Seedorf, who also had stints at Real Madrid, Ajax and Inter
Milan, will be presented at Botafogo next weekend with the club
hoping his experience can help win a major title for the first
time since they lifted the Brazilian championship in 1995.
Botafogo are currently eighth in the 20-team Brazilian
league after six matches.