According to English media, negotiations have been opened with Feyenoord regarding the 45-year-old coach, who still has two years of contract in the Netherlands. However, it is for other reasons that the technician has just made the front page of all the Dutch newspapers: he lifted the Dutch Cup in a bathrobe, as tradition dictates.
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After the championship coronation last year, this trophy is the second won by Arne Slot who is only in his fifth year as T1. His track record as a coach is already better than that of a player. The former attacking midfielder spent most of his career at PEC Zwolle and NAC Breda, where he shared the locker room for a long time with Belgian goalkeeper Davy Schollen (ex-Anderlecht). It was also with Breda that he crossed paths with Zlatan Ibrahimovic in 2004, the day the Swede scored what will remain as his most legendary goal (his famous slalom with Ajax).
I'm a control freak, like Guardiola.
As a player, Slot has never been under the orders of a renowned coach. So he found another mentor, or rather a role model, when he started coaching in 2014, just after his retirement. “I certainly don't want to compare myself to Pep Guardiola, but he's a control freak just like mehe told Voetbal International. There’s no team in the world I’d rather watch than Manchester City.”
First assistant at Cambuur then at AZ where he was launched as T1 in 2019, this lover of attacking football and pressing (like Klopp…) was fired from the Alkmaar club after nine days in 2020… while he was undefeated. Because his management did not find him invested enough. Frank Arnesen, the former sports director of RSCA, therefore jumped at the opportunity to make him Dick Advocaat's successor at Feyenoord. With the success we are experiencing and a Conference League final (in 2022) along the way.
