Former Chelsea and Crystal Palace fullback Patrick van Aanholt has explained staying in Holland.
The defender signed with Sparta Rotterdam last week.
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He said, "I received a lot of offers from different countries, but nothing I wanted.
"Then we had to wait for something attractive and fun to come my way and eventually it has become Sparta. You must have a good feeling, it was right at Sparta."
Van Aanholt added, "The choice to stay in the Netherlands was partly because I have played abroad for a long time, my children have settled in the Netherlands and the family is close by."
"That's why I didn't want to go abroad," continued the 34-year-old. "No offer from abroad made me doubt, because I did not feel good about it. I followed that feeling."