Sports Reporter
FORMER Zimbabwe Warriors and Dynamos Coach Clemens Westerhof (born May 3, 1940) has been reported sick and seeking medical assistance for colon cancer.
Press reports said the Dutch football manager, who has worked in various football positions on the African continent since 1989 is in a critical condition at Rijnstate Hospital in Arnhem, the Netherlands.
He was also married to Zimbabwean model Tendai Westerhof but they divorced.
The coach Westerhof is most noted for his success with the Nigerian national team the Super Eagles with which he conquered Africa winning the Africa Cup of Nations and also qualified for the second round of the FIFA World Cup that year.
Westerhof began his career as an assistant coach in Feyenoord in the Dutch Eredivisie.
He has also coached Vitesse Arnhem, the Zimbabwean national team, the Sporting Lions, Dyna mos of Zimbabwe’s Premier League, and the Bush Bucks and Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa’s Premier Soccer League.
In addition, he has served as technical director of the Harare-based Agatha Sheneti Youth Academy and also of the Harare United club, which was linked to the academy.
In 2001, he was technical director of Dynamos Harare, Zimbabwe’s biggest club, but lasted in the position just a few months.