Serginho Greene

Serginho Greene (; born 24 June 1982) is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Besides the Netherlands, he has played in Bulgaria, Serbia, Cyprus and India.

Early life Greene's life revolved around football from a young age, growing up in the southeastern part of Amsterdam, where playing street football was a daily ritual. Unlike other sports such as tennis or basketball, he was only dedicated to football. He delighted in controlling the ball and honing his skills through tricks and street matches on the streets of Amsterdam. He still had a three-year remaining contract at Ajax, which he gave up, because he did not want to play in the Eerste Divisie any longer. Ajax decided to release him and fellow Eredivisie contenders RKC Waalwijk showed interest in him. Working with Martin Jol, Željko Petrović (who still was a player at RKC in those days) and Erwin Koeman he learned a lot about professional football and he developed quickly. Hamburger SV, Rangers, AZ and Feyenoord showed interest in signing him. Eventually, Feyenoord announced signing Greene on a free transfer on 14 April 2005. The main reasons for Greene to join Feyenoord were the club's reputation and their well known fanatic supporters.

Feyenoord Greene finished the 2004–05 season in Waalwijk and joined the Feyenoord squad in the summer of 2005. At Feyenoord's presentation day on 27 July 2004, Greene flew into De Kuip by helicopter, along with other newly signed players Maikel Aerts, Timothy Derijck, Gianni Zuiverloon, Tim Vincken and Ali Boussaboun. Feyenoord also appointed a new coach to replace Ruud Gullit and to Greene's surprise it was his latest RKC coach Erwin Koeman who was given the job. As right-back Alexander Östlund left the club, it was decided that Vlaar and André Bahia would play in the center and Greene would play further as a right defender. Since joining Feyenoord, Greene hardly missed a match; the team, however, was struggling in both finances and results.

In the season of 2008–09, Greene's contract, which expired in the summer of 2009, was not renewed, as Feyenoord announced the release of Greene at the end of the season.

Vitesse On 4 November 2009, Greene joined Vitesse on a free transfer, agreeing a one-year deal with the Dutch Eredivisie club.

In June 2010, he went on trial with a Russian side Terek Grozny, but Terek decided not to sign him.

Levski Sofia On 8 August 2010, it was announced that Greene arrived in Sofia, Bulgaria in order to negotiate terms with Bulgarian side Levski Sofia. On the next day, he made his first training with Levski. Greene signed his contract with Levski, two days later, on 10 August 2010. The contract was for two years.

During the 2010–11 season, Levski qualified for UEFA Europa League after eliminating Dundalk, Kalmar and AIK. Levski was drawn in Group C, facing Gent, Lille and Sporting CP.

Greene quickly became a first team regular playing as a defensive midfielder alongside Vladimir Gadzhev. He scored his first goal for Levski on 16 September 2010 against Gent. This goal gave Levski a 3–2 home win in their first Europa League Group stage match.

Greene started playing as a defensive midfielder, but due to Levski's defensive problems he was moved to centre-back. With the January purchase of midfielder Daniel Dimov Greene continued playing centre-half in 2011.

On 4 August 2011, he was sent off in the second leg of the UEFA Europa League match against Slovak side Spartak Trnava.

Vojvodina On 4 July 2012, Greene signed a two-year contract with Serbian club Vojvodina.

Delhi Dynamos On 10 September 2015, Greene signed with Delhi Dynamos and played in their second pre-season friendly match in the same day.

Waalwijk In the summer of 2016, Greene returned to his former club RKC Waalwijk, signing a two-year deal. He left the club as his contract expired in June 2018, having scored eight goals in 72 appearances.

International career Greene was a member of the Netherlands U-16 and U-21 football teams.

Honours Feyenoord KNVB Cup: 2008