He went down in history as a player, celebrating successes in both club and national team. Now there is a new task for a long-time world-class player – thanks to an unusual choice of club.
Champions League winners 1995, Uefa Cup winners 1992, three times champions in Italy, three times champions in the Netherlands, World Cup fourth in 1998, 74 international matches, six goals – a big name in world football will in future be in the third division Portugal work. Because Holland legend Edgar Davids is the new coach from SC Olhanense.
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Posted by Sporting Clube Olhanense on Monday, January 4, 2021
The club announced this on Monday on its Facebook page. For Davids, the Portuguese club is the second he is in charge of as head coach. The 47-year-old had previously coached the English club FC Barnet as a player-coach between 2012 and 2014. Since 2020 David’s assistant coach at the Dutch second division Telstar under the former Bayern coach Andries Jonker.
Davids is still waiting for the breakthrough as a coach. During his playing days, the midfielder celebrated his greatest successes with Ajax Amsterdam (1991-96) and Juventus Turin (1997-2004), but also played for AC Milan, FC Barcelona, Inter Milan and Tottenham Hotspur. In the Dutch national team he belonged to the “golden generation” of the 90s around Patrick Kluivert, Marc Overmars, Clarence Seedorf and goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar, all of whom became stars at Ajax.
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