Seedorf to take charge of Milan. Seedorf returns to manage a club for whom he made over 400 appearances and won two Champions League titles Veteran international ends playing career to take charge of MilanSeedorf will become first black coach in Serie A since 1995Midfielder made over 400 appearances for San Siro sideDutchman replaces Massimiliano Allegri, sacked on Monday after Milan's dismal Serie A start (CNN) -- The unsavory issue of racism in Italian football could be tested like never before following the news that former Netherlands international Clarence Seedorf is to take charge of AC Milan. Even though Milan has yet to formally confirm his appointment, the 37-year-old is in line to become the first black manager in Serie A in nearly two decades.
The last black coach to guide a leading Italian side was Brazilian Jarbas 'Cane' Faustinho, who took joint control of Napoli in the 1994-95 season alongside Vujadin Boskov. Read: Stumbling AC Milan sack Milan Clarence Seedorf leaves AC Milan Racism in Football: Part 1. Italian Serie A 2012-2013. Tomorow, August 25, 2012, the new 2012/2013 season starts. Poor Serie A. From a once dominant European competition in the 80s and 90s, it is now in precipitous decline and was recently overtaken by Bundesliga in UEFA rankings...
There are many issues here, from (yet another) betting scandal (Juventus coach Antonio Conte was banned from attending games for 10 months, many players disqualified, Lecce relegated to third division) to crumbling infrastructure and stadia, from departing star-players to extreme financial hardship for many teams. Juventus seems to be by far the dominant power, Inter and AC Milan are definitely weaker this year, their owners trying to reign in spending drammatically. Possible surprises Napoli, Roma.Here's how last year's competition ended: Here's this year situation:- Teams and stadia (3 teams from Serie B were Promoted: Pescara, Torino and Sampdoria): - Locations: European Football in Black and White: Tackling Racism in Football - Christos Kassimeris. In first coaching role, Seedorf faces daunting task at Milan - Soccer - Jonathan Wilson.
Clarence Seedorf returns to AC Milan, facing a daunting task in his first managerial role. Fabio Castro/AGIF/AP After the news had broken that Clarence Seedorf was to be the new manager of AC Milan, the Curva Sud ultra group erected a banner outside the club's old offices. Its message was simple: "Seedorf, no grazie. " Given that it's only two months since the ultras were confronting players over poor performances, there's something unexpected and slightly touching about their on-going support for Massimiliano Allegri, who was dismissed following Sunday's 4-3 defeat at Sassuolo after a little over three seasons in the job.
The Curva Sud have been consistent in this, though, acknowledging the turmoil behind the scenes at the club, and releasing a statement in May in which they explicitly stated they didn't want Seedorf or any other manager who lacked experience. The inexperience is the key; Seedorf doesn't even have a Pro License and will coach only with special dispensation. Is Clarence Seedorf the man to save AC Milan? There are doubts in Italy - European - Football.
Seedorf’s Ajax, with only two players over the age of 26, went on to dethrone Milan that night in Vienna. If that was a surprise, the fact that, of all the players at the Ernst Happel Stadium, it is Seedorf, the Surinamese kid, who is the first of them to coach his opponents is extraordinary. Not Desailly, not Franco Baresi, Milan’s general, nor his defensive side-kick Alessandro Costacurta. Not Demetrio Albertini, the Nineties’ Andrea Pirlo, the great Paolo Maldini or the inspirational Croat Zvonimir Boban. Milan legends all, but a curiosity about that Milan XI, which was coached by Fabio Capello, is that only one, Roberto Donadoni, has gone on to have a successful coaching career, and while he coached Italy he has not been entrusted with the reins at Milan. Instead, in his hour of need Silvio Berlusconi – now focusing again on Milan after being ejected from government – has turned to Seedorf.
“I could not turn down the president,” said Seedorf. There is no question it is a gamble. Clarence Seedorf critical of Kevin-Prince Boateng's racism walk-off - European - Football. However, former Milan midfielder Clarence Seedorf claims Boateng was wrong to do so, believing it sets a dangerous precedent. Seedorf said: "I don't see it as such a positive thing because [it] empowers more and more of this behaviour. " Boateng was one of a number of Milan players subjected to racially abusive chanting from the home fans of Pro Patria. Urby Emanuelson, Sulley Muntari and M'Baye Niang were also victims of abuse. After 26 minutes of the friendly, Boateng picked up the ball, kicked it into the crowd, removed his shirt and walked off the pitch. He was applauded by the rest of the ground and players from both sides walked off with him. Boateng wrote on Twitter afterwards "Shame that these things still happen. The Milan coach, Massimiliano Allegri ,said that Boateng had been right to make a stand.
"Walking off was the right choice when faced with something like this," Allegri said. There will be an immediate inquiry into the incident by the Italian Football Federation. Clarence Seedorf becomes AC Milan Head Coach. Will racism harm hi... | Rate Your Player. It's just been announced that former Dutch midfielder Clarence Seedorf has retired from football to become manager of Italian Giants AC Milan. The struggling Milan side sacked manager Massimiliano Allegri after a dissapointing start to the season. The 37 year old spent 10 years with Milan and returns for his first managerial role.
My only concern is the racist abuse that players have recieved in Italy, in particular those at Milan. Former player Kevin Prince-Boateng led walk-offs on at least two seperate occasions due to the racist abuse that he recieved from opposing fans. Get a free £50 bet!!! Comments. Why are so many black ex-pros unable to land managerial jobs? by Gabriele Marcotti. Forum | Apparently Paul Ince has been sacked by Steve_M | TWTD.co.uk. Sports Round-up. Seedorf to take charge of Milan. Clarence Seedorf becomes AC Milan Head Coach. Will racism harm hi... | Rate Your Player. Is Football Racist? Why aren't there more black football managers? | Jamie Cleland. The United States emerged. Insularitygave way to globalism: migrationacross football nations became commonplace, at first betweenEuropean countries and later between all football-playing territories.Zimbabwean Peter Ndlovu, who moved to Coventry City in 1991, andTony Yeboah, a Ghanaian who transferred to Leeds United in 1995,were among the first of a wave of African nationals who moved toEngland.
By the time of their arrival, indigenous black players, thoughat first made to feel like uninvited guests at a whites-only party, hadbecome parts of a diverse cultural make-up, though Asian players were indeed still are conspicuous by their absence.Much of football was in flux in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Even the ownership of clubs, long a mainstay of localbusinessmen, became more varied. We are athletic, but can we think? Britain s first black football manager was Tony Collins, who managedRochdale for seven years from 1960.
Why aren’t there more black football managers. GIF: Mario Balotelli and Clarence Seedorf Exchange Gestures as Milan Win. Clarence Seedorf's first game in charge of AC Milan was a victory. His team beat Hellas Verona 1-0 at the San Siro, with Mario Balotelli scoring the winner from the penalty spot. This is how the two men interacted after the goal: @memedeportes Beautiful, isn't it? Balotelli and Seedorf: Could it be a marriage made in football heaven? Clarence Seedorf takes AC Milan job to become Serie A's second ever black manager. Clarence Seedorf will become just the second ever black coach in Serie A after revealing he’s retiring from football to manage AC Milan. The Dutchman, 37, who has been playing in the Brazilian league with Botafogo, will hang up his boots to replace the recently sacked Max Allegri at the San Siro. ‘I am here to announce that I will retire from playing after 22 years,’ said Seedorf. ‘It has been a difficult decision, but I am satisfied with what I have achieved in my career.
Here at Botafogo I am happy because I leave a team which has qualified for the (Copa) Libertadores. ‘I leave an improved club, especially in terms of their mentality and team spirit. ‘Yes, I will be the coach at Milan.’ Seedorf won two Champions League titles in a 10-year career at Milan before joining Botafogo, and becomes the second black manager in Italy after Jarbas Faustinho, who managed Napoli between 1994-95. Fabio Liverani – Genoa and their history maker. Fabio Liverani made history as a player and now as a coach he is set to do likewise.
Over the last couple of weeks and months the Serie A world has been dominated by the ins and outs of coaches across the peninsula. Walter Mazzarri’s switch to Inter from Napoli, Rafa Benitez’s return to Italy at the Partenopei and the on-going sagas at Roma and AC Milan have grabbed all the headlines. Yet under the radar an appointment of even greater significance took place. “Liverani hasn’t signed the contract yet, but he will do soon,” the words of Genoa president Enrico Preziosi earlier this week to a local television station. The new Genoa coach Liverani was born in Rome during the 1970’s to a Somali mother and an Italian father, Ezio, who died when he was 15 years old. Liverani was brought up in a difficult time for those of racial minorities in Italy. He made his big break when he joined Perugia in the summer of 2000, joining the revolution under coach Serse Cosmi. Fabio Liverani out, Gian Piero Gasperini in at Genoa. A 2-0 loss to Napoli proved to be the breaking point for Fabio Liverani, whose first experience coaching a senior side comes to an end after just six games.
Fabio Liverani is the first manager to be sacked this Serie A season, lasting just six games in charge of Genoa. Under Liverani, the rossoblu haven't had the worst of starts, sitting 15th in the table with four points. Plus they earned three of those via an impressive Derby win over Sampdoria, so the manager probably figured he'd bought a little time.
Unfortunately, Genoa put on a depressingly dreary performance against scudetto challengers Napoli on Saturday night. Liverani did his best to fix things, changing his squad up even before the break. Genoa looked stronger as the night went on, but Napoli still took all three points easily. It's probably not fair to fire a manager after his side lose to one that's yet to lose themselves, but hey, try to tell that to Enrico Preziosi. So it's Gian Piero Gasperini for the rossoblu. Seedorf says AC Milan has great record on racism. Clarence Seedorf critical of Kevin-Prince Boateng's racism walk-off - European - Football. For Italy's 'ultras,' nothing black and white about football and racism. AC Milan's Mario Balotelli reacts to racist abuse from the visiting Roma fans at the San Siro in May.
It was not the first time the Italian-born striker has been racially abused in Serie A. Serie A side Lazio has already been punished four times in the 2012-13 season due to racist offenses by its fans in European matches. "I don't care what game it is -- a friendly, Italian league or Champions League match -- I would walk off again," the Germany-born Kevin-Prince Boateng, who has represented Ghana, told CNN in an exclusive interview in January after he walked off in protest at racist abuse he was subjected to in a friendly match.
"I'm sad and angry that I'm the one that has to take action," added the AC Milan midfielder. "All the people who support me would support me in a big game. Players like Rio Ferdinand and Patrick Vieira have supported me and I just want to say thank you. " Of Serie A's big clubs, only Juventus has built a new stadium in recent years. Italy's complex racism problem. When The Beautiful Game Turns Ugly. VERONA, Italy -- Right up until he started quoting Hitler and dropping N-bombs, my new friend was a great dude. I'll call him The Hooligan. A more generous host would be hard to find. Soon after we met, he made sure we stopped at the one place in town that served Campari correctly. He speaks eight languages, and seemed nothing like the Hellas Verona fans I'd read about, the neo-fascist, neo-Nazi, racist thugs.
Now we are headed toward the terraces of the stadium. "How about, 'You're a f---ing n-----'? " Lost in the Pontine Marshes Enlarge Benito Mussolini in 1936. This story is about a red motorcycle. The ghost of Mussolini rides through the swampland he turned into farms, the sound of his bike's engine going tom-tom-tom in the dark. Pennacchi lectures me that American democracy is not morally superior. "You are simplifying! " He stands up, imitating the way Balotelli appeals for a foul to the officials, moving around like he's been shot, the curse words flying in Italian.
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