Guido Seerden

Date of birth:	18-05-1988
Age:	36
Nationality:	Dutch
Height:	178cm

Current Country:	Republic of South Africa
Current role:	Head of Sport Science and Performance
Current Club:	Cape Town City Football Club
Secondary positions:	Football coach
Contract until:	June 30 2018

Player data

1994 - 2003 Landgraaf, The Netherlands
V.V. RKONS

Midfielder
Playing for the U7s-U19s.

2003 - 2009Landgraaf, The Netherlands
V.V. Schaesberg

Defender and midfielder
Playing for the U17s-U19s and Reserves

2009 - 2010 Kerkrade, The Netherlands
V.V. RKTSV

Defender and midfielder
Playing for the First team

2010 - 2011 Landgraaf, The Netherlands
V.V. Schaesberg

Defender and midfielder
Playing for the Reserves

2011 Landgraaf, The Netherlands
Retirement

Played for the youth teams of a semi-professional football club in the Netherlands all the way to the Reserve team.

Then picked up an injury and decided to focus on coaching completely as a higher level as a coach than as a player is within reach.

Coach data

I am highly motivated and passionate football coach with a solid background in applying sport science and fitness in football. Hence, I am broadly educated in a wide scope of performance enhancing areas and that makes it easier for me to communicate with other performance enhancing specialists working within a club because I have an understanding of their role. I am able to communicate effectively within the world of football and can talk in sports language. This is something I put into my daily practice at Cape Town City Football Club (RSA), where I monitor and analyse the training load, and, more importantly, educate coaches about the application of sport science and fitness in football.
Also, I understand the culture of professional football and the one of the Middle East.

I have shown to be talented in conducting applied football research given the fact that I won the Young Investigator Award at the World Conference on Science and Soccer in Portland (2014) and by contributing to the writing and reviewing process of the Fitness in Soccer book by van Winckel et al. (2014).

Achievements

2008-2009	V.V. Schaesberg U15 Strijthagencup
2009-2010	V.V. Schaesberg U13 League champions Cup runners up
2012-2013	Liverpool John Moores University Football Club League champions
2014	4th World Conference on Science and Soccer 1st place Young Investigator Award
2016	Cape Town City Football Club Telkom Knockout Cup Champions