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By Alan Duffy

A man of many talents as we have recently seen here, the great Clarence Seedorf, one of the finest players of his generation, was already getting himself on the telly as a young teen.

Back in 1990, the Seedorf appeared on Dutch TV quiz show 'Ted's Familiespelshow', ultimately winning a colour TV with remote control.

21.08.2012 - Em partida emocionante e decidida apenas nos minutos finais, o Atlético venceu o Botafogo por 3 a 2, de virada, neste domingo, no Independência, e se manteve na liderança isolada do Campeonato Brasileiro, agora com 42 pontos e um jogo a menos.

Con goles de Damián Escudero (´43), Jô (´53) y Neto Berola (´87) Atlético Mineiro venció (3-2) a Botafogo (Andrezinho ´35 + ´80 penal) en el Estadio Independencia (Belo Horizonte) por la 18º jornada del Brasileirao 2012.

04.08.2012 - Así el bautismo de Clarence Seedorf (jugador LPND) en las redes brasileñas (fecha 14º Brasileirao). Fue el empate (1-1) para Botafogo (vs Atlético-GO) en el minuto 64, paso inicial de la remontada final (2-1) desde los pies de Fellype Gabriel.

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Clarence Seedorf may be one of Brazilian football's high-profile "marquee representatives" (partly because the country is experiencing a positive economic boom) at the moment, but he is still trying to settle into his role at Botafogo. Interestingly, he has scored 13 goals in 33 matches in an "unfamiliar attacking role" just behind the strikers.

By Chris Wright

What with being brassic and all, AC Milan have let an awful lot of talent wander off into the sunset this summer, so much so, in fact, that you can assemble a fairly intimidating first XI from the players the Rossoneri have released into the wild but don't just take our word for it, ay' a look at this.

08.07.2012 - Terminada su carrera de elite en Milan, Clarence Seedorf (36) aterriza en Brasil (junto a su fiel y brasileña esposa Luviana) para calzarse la camiseta de Botafogo (por dos años de contrato).

Clarence tuvo que sonreír y posar desde el primer instante.

FC Barcelona was held to a goal less draw at the San Siro stadium by AC Milan in the first leg of Champions League Quarter Final. A brilliant defensive display from Milan, coupled with a horrible pitch was good enough to negate any Barca threat. Arsene Wenger did complain about the state of this pitch, but I never throught it was this bad.

There were a lot of tears at the San Siro yesterday afternoon, as Milan officially bid farewell to six of their players Gennaro Gattuso, Pippo Inzaghi, Marc van Bommel, Clarence Seedorf, Gianluca Zambrotta and Alessandro Nesta.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang é a última vítima da maldição que, amiúde, afeta os melhores jogadores na fase final de uma grande competição de selecções. O "Neymar do Gabão", alcunha que deriva do visual do atleta, foi a principal figura de uma das selecções anfitriãs da CAN, ao marcar três golos nos três jogos da fase de grupos e ser autor de outras tantas assistências, mas na hora da verdade claudicou e falhou o penálti decisivo que permitiu a passagem do Mali para as meias-finais da competição.

There were two things we learnt about Zlatan Ibrahimovic this week. One was that in his youth, he was "easily in the top five of the most unruly pupils" his school's headmistress had ever seen. The second was that he used to lock himself up in his apartment after a bad game when 50,000 fans whistled at him.

FC Barcelona secured the top spot of Group H in Champions League with a high tempo thrilling 3-2 victory against AC Milan. An own goal from Van Bommel, a penalty from Messi and another beautiful goal from xavi completed Barca's socreline, whereas Ibrahimovic and Boateng scored for AC Milan.

Rumours doing the rounds that AC Milan striker Antonio Cassano suffered a stroke on Saturday after Milan's 3-2 win over AS Roma in Rome have been rubbished by the club.

According to Italian news agency Ansa a medical examination carried out on the 29 year old diagnosed him as having had a stroke although the extent of the damage has not been identified.

Wednesday's Champions League action saw wins for Europe's elite clubs with Barcelona, AC Milan and Arsenal all securing wins with Chelsea being the only exception.

The Blues settled for a 1-1 draw in Valencia after taking the lead early in the second half� thanks to a Frank Lampard goal.

La quinta di Serie A è stata, senza dubbio, la giornata di Milan e Inter, ma anche della Roma, tre big alle quali mancava il sorriso, quello meraviglioso, dei 3 punti, in questo tormentato inizio di stagione.
Per quanto riguarda gli altri risultati, il Catania blocca la Juventus, il Palermo la Lazio, mentre il Genoa, illuso da Palacio, si complica la vita con l'espulsione di Dainelli, e cade contro un Chievo battagliero e vittorioso con i "gemelli del goal" Pellissier-Moscardelli.

While Del Piero tries to stare you down for giving him evils about being on the Juventus bench, let us take you through some Serie A highlights from the weekend!

1. AS Roma defeated Parma 1-0 with the sole goal coming from Osvaldo.

FC Barcelona for the second time in four days failed to kill off a game which they dominated, and ended sharing points in the first match of Champions League this season. AC Milan took a shock lead within 25 second of start through Pato. Barca over turned it from through goals from Pedro and Villa, but then in the dying moments Thiago Silva equalised from the corner for AC Milan.

When the Philadelphia Union hosted FC Schalke 04 in an international friendly on Wednesday night, the talk was centered around a player, but it wasn't the one who had scored 48 goals in 49 games in 2011-2012.

Instead the hype surrounded Raul, who was supposed to be playing in his last game for Schalke.

By Chris Wright

1996 was a fine year for humanity. The Cable Guy hit the cinemas and showed us all just what was truly possible, the IRA bombed the Arndale centre, millions of people the world over began finding that Ask Jeeves 'preferred the term jovial' and Mark Morrison warned us all about the imminent Return of the Mac (despite no-one realising he'd been away) before being jailed for hiring a ringer to do a bout of community service.