Frans Van Seumeren, 61 years old, is the owner of FC Utrecht and the man who brought to the surface the Russian nuclear powered submarine Kursk. Just as Gazeta's journalist, Gabriel Berceanu, was having a long conversation with him in Utrecht, the Dutch and European media were looking for van Seumeren, trying to find out whether his company would be the one to salvage the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia which had recently ran aground.
But he was busy talking about Mihai Neşu, the football player who had won him over, both as an athlete and as a human being. See what a Dutch football club owner looks like and read about how he thinks, find out what motivates a really rich man and what are the values of a man who says that “I didn’t make a promise to Mihai Neşu. I told him that his place would always be here, thus showing my availability for an infinite number of promises.”
There are charming people in the world, charming in their admitted imperfection, which they have come to terms with. Read here about a character who will warm your soul and watch at the end a video message from Van Seumeren to Neşu!
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At 61, the man is getting ready to embark on his final challenge: a “tour” on the Silk Road (Turkey-China). In the meantime, he will have surpassed the barrier of 30 million euro invested in the football club, and his companies will have continued to lift objects weighing thousands of tonnes and to carry them to the four corners of the world.
Van Seumeren is an eccentric character even for Dutch standards: a 61-year old man, brought up in a wealthy Catholic family, the fourth of eleven children. He only talks to the press twice a year. But he made an exception for a dialogue with the Romanian newspaper close to Mihai Neşu.
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