On the track of Kamp Seedorf

Hand painted. Semi-Permanent.
Unconsciously, perhaps, the name of the street Dutch artists collective Kamp Seedorf has become one of the most famous in the world, so much to be defined by the English magazine FourFourTwo as "the Banksy of football."
In their portfolio there are champions from the present and from the past, Dutch and not: Maradona, Matthaus, Batistuta, Cantona, Zlatan and Tardelli. But also Dennis Bergkamp and Jari Litmanen, real heroes between the roads and the channels of Amsterdam. 

And then there is Clarence Seedorf. Already in the name - Kamp Seedorf (that has also been a Dutch soldier base in Germany) - there is an homage to the ex-midfielder, been born, as big part of them, in Almere, a city founded in the 70s after having torn a portion of the earth from the sea. 

The former player of Milan, Inter, Sampdoria, Real Madrid and Ajax is, with great probability, the preferred subject of this group of street artists. 
But the peculiarity is that Seedorf, being among the most winning football players ever, has also been one of the most inclusive and beloved in the history of the Dutch National team. The most eccentric soccer players, with memorable hair or nonconformist behaviors, capture the attentions of the collective. The characters that Kamp Seedorf draws give a face to the crew and not vice versa.

The black ink together with the glue and the bright acrylics colors, are the only weapons of this group of artists that has inspired numerous marketings office of great brand, always keeping the anonymity, to guarantee that tension and that adrenaline that from a wall to another, pillar after pillar, has been a fundamental ingredient of theirs operated and that today guarantees themselves a total artistic liberty.

Everything started from Wibautstreet, often recognized as one of the ugliest roads in Amsterdam. 
There Kamp Seedorf has placed a "piece" devoted to Stanley Menzo, goalkeeper of the Ajax of the first ninety. A chain reaction is followed of it, useful to favor their obsession for the football and, above all, for Ajax.
They’ve started with Menzo, to continue with Rijkaard and a young Patrick Kluivert, Marko Pantelic that hisses the adversaries, and ending with the actual tribute to Kasper Dolberg.
Every work is hand-painted on great sheets of paper, using the ink of slope and acrylic colors. The sketches are cut then and glued on the peripheral walls, that become often destination of pilgrimages of fans and impassioned of street-art. 

Today, gotten a certain fame thanks to bounce off some images on the socials network, they have decided to also open an online shop, where you can buy shirts or presses. The dimension to which the boys of Kamp Seedorf belong, however, is that of the road. There, armed with everything they need, they appear and gives life to gigantic reproductions of heroes.