Dennis Bergkamp wants return to England as a coach

Sunday 16 November 2008

Four months into the short version of the Coach Professional Football course Dennis Bergkamp already knows that he wants to go on in coaching.

"I am very interested in all aspects of it. I am being involved in all sorts of processes that you are not aware of as a player."

Bergkamp now is an intern at Ajax where he is involved with the first team of Marco van Basten and he coaches the B-squad of the Ajax academy.

"It's all very exciting and I am putting in a lot of time. After two years of doing nothing that takes some getting used to," Bergkamp says.

Still he found some extra time to assist Johan Neeskens at Holland B.

"I see it as part of the course I am doing. Besides the club teams I like to see how things go at a national team."

At Ajax Van Basten let's him be part of many of the decision making processes.

"That's all very informative, because it's not only who you put in the lineup. As a coach there are small and big things to decide all day long. That has taught me a lot," says Bergkamp who wants to climb the coaching ladder gradually.

"I take an example in Frank de Boer. Just start at the bottom and than work your way up. I don't rule out a return to England in time. That should be great to do something over there in the future."

Last week's rumors that his former Arsenal team mate Tony Adams wanted him as an assistant at Portsmouth had reached him too.

"I heard it through the grapevine, but that they know that I am doing the Coaching Course here in the Netherlands. So such a step is not for now."