Interviewed by the Genoese edition of The Republic, Clarence Seedorf he remembered his year in Genoa, with Sampdoria, and especially Sven Goran Eriksson, who this afternoon will be celebrated by the Blucerchiati public at Marassi: “I received important lessons, I had just left a club where I had played for ten years always in the same way. Everyone we knew what to do. In Italy they helped me adapt to a different mentality and culture, to break away from consolidated automatisms.
Eriksson? It was a year of training, I consider the move to Sampdoria fundamental for my career. In that phase of my life, Eriksson helped me a lot, he made me play with great regularity, he gave me advice on Italian culture, not just football, and these teachings have accompanied me throughout life.
He explained to me that sometimes you have to do what they expect of you on the pitch, even if you think they aren’t the right choices. I remember his example very well, he told me that my way of playing was closer to the architect, but this doesn’t mean that you can’t do or understand the role of the bricklayer in the field. People, those who get up early in the morning, sweat and struggle, identify more with the bricklayer’s work of pressing and running than with those who design the project”.