Sepp van den Berg

I'll be honest, Sepp van den Berg is exactly the kind of player I love to track — a young Dutch centre-back who came through Liverpool's academy, spent years grinding through loan moves at Preston, Blackpool, and Mainz, quietly building his game while most people weren't paying attention, and then suddenly emerged as a genuinely composed, ball-playing defender in the Bundesliga before landing at Brentford in the Premier League. Born in Zwolle in 2001, he's still barely in his early twenties, and already he's got top-flight experience across multiple countries. There's something very Dutch about his style — calm on the ball, reads the game intelligently, doesn't panic — and I think he's one of those players who'll be a household name in a few years once the wider audience catches up to what close watchers already know.

Name (English)

Sepp van den Berg

Name (Japanese)

セップ・ファン・デン・ベルフ

Reading

せっぷ・ふぁん・でん・べるふ

Born

December 20, 2001 (age 24)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Snake

Origin

Zwolle, Overijssel, Netherlands

Height

2 cm

Occupation

association football player

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BB%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95

Tags

• Overijssel
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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