Arne Slot returned to one in all his former golf equipment within the Netherlands in latest days, with Liverpool having a uncommon weekend off.
Within the six-day interval between the Reds’ most up-to-date match (the house win over Newcastle) and their subsequent fixture (the Champions League go to to Paris Saint-Germain), the 46-year-old took benefit of the downtime by going again to his homeland, and particularly to a stadium the place he beforehand performed.
Slot returns to Zwolle to see revamped portrait
As reported by Vincent de Vries for De Stentor, the LFC head coach paid €2,500 to Dutch artist Henk Heideveld to ask for a portray of him on the gallery of his former membership PEC Zwolle to be redone.
The up to date verson was unveiled on the MAC³PARK Stadion in latest days, with Slot in attendance to see it being offered.
The Liverpool boss was delighted with the brand new portray, commenting: “You’ll be able to even see the cracks in my lips. I can completely recognise myself on this”; and it additionally earned the seal of approval from Arne’s spouse Mirjam.
Zwolle could be happy with Slot’s achievements
Slot’s enjoying profession started and ended at Zwolle, with the now 46-year-old enjoying 195 occasions for the membership throughout these two spells.
Though it’s as a coach that he’s risen to worldwide fame, he was an completed participant inside his native Netherlands, scoring 89 targets in a profession spanning 406 senior video games and briefly sampling European soccer with NAC Breda, who confronted Newcastle within the 2003/04 UEFA Cup.
It’s clear from his presence in Zwolle’s gallery that he continues to be held in very excessive regard on the membership, and so they have to be rightly happy with what he’s achieved in administration, with Liverpool trying near-certainties to win the Premier League two years after he led Feyenoord to Eredivisie glory.
Slot had no hesitation in reaching into his personal pocket to ask Heideveld for an improved portray, with that want for the very best requirements additionally mirrored in his work at Anfield, the place he’s not been afraid to voice constructive criticism in public even when his group have been successful with spectacular regularity.
At the least now he has a really life-like portrait on the dwelling of his former membership!
