Sep 3 2008 3:53PM
Sep 3 2008 3:53PM
1971-1988: THE EARLY YEARS
I was born in September 1971 in Helsingborg, a small football-mad Swedish city. My father, who came from the Cape Verde Islands off the West...
Sep 3 2008 3:55PM
Sep 3 2008 3:55PM
1988-1993: THE HELSINGBORG YEARS
When I was 19 I met the girl I was going to marry, Magdelena, and she helped to settle me down. We met in a restaurant, but I´m not saying w...
Sep 3 2008 4:08PM
Sep 3 2008 4:08PM
1993-94: FEYENOORD AND THE 1994 WORLD CUP
I had nearly moved to Grasshoppers of Zurich before I joined Feyenoord. We were just finalising the details when I heard Feyenoord wanted me...
Sep 3 2008 4:21PM
Sep 3 2008 4:21PM
1994-97: FEYENOORD
The 1994/95 season back in Holland was OK - Feyenoord got to the semi-final of the European Cup where we lost to Zaragoza - but by 1995/96 I...
Sep 3 2008 4:28PM
Sep 3 2008 4:28PM
1997-1998: MOVING TO CELTIC
My son Jordan - who I named after Michael Jordan, an athlete I really admire - was born the month before I moved to Celtic and it was all a ...
Sep 3 2008 4:35PM
Sep 3 2008 4:35PM
1998-2000: BATTLING BACK FROM INJURY
For me, 1998/99 was great, but for the club it was a bad season because we didn´t win the League, and we lost the Cup Final. The players aro...
Jan 13 2009 1:11PM
Jan 13 2009 1:11PM
2000-2002 SILVERWARE WITH CELTIC
Martin O´Neill took over from Kenny Dalglish in the summer of 2000 and brought a whole new style of management to Celtic. I liked Kenny Dalg...
Jan 16 2009 4:33PM
Jan 16 2009 4:33PM
2002-2004 MY CELTIC SWAN-SONG
It was tough to live up to the 2000/01 season the following year, but we retained the league and made the final of the Scottish Cup, which w...
Jan 30 2009 11:22AM
Jan 30 2009 11:22AM
2004 - OUT OF INTERNATIONAL RETIREMENT
Of course when I left Celtic I didn´t actually have a club to go to and there was the little matter of Euro 2004 in Portugal as well. I´d qu...
Feb 5 2009 11:03AM
Feb 5 2009 11:03AM
2004 – 2005 MY MOVE TO BARCELONA
I joined the Barca squad for their pre-season tour of the Far East and it was a good chance to get to know the players. They all seemed like...
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