Seedorf inks deal with Brazil’s Botafogo

RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazilian top-flight club Botafogo has agreed to sign 36-year-old Dutch midfielder Clarence Seedorf on a two-year deal, his new side announced Saturday. “He’s the greatest foreign player ever to sign for a Brazilian club,” Botafogo president Mauricio Assuncao said in a telephone interview after the club made the official announcement on its website (www.botafogo.com.br). “He is really not coming for money. He is a player driven by challenges and he told me that Brazilian football is where he can play at a high level for another two years. He is not coming only to visit,” Assuncao added. — Reuters