Royston Ricky Drenthe is a football player who provokes conflicting opinions about himself. Born in April 1987 in the Netherlands, the city of Rotterdam. It has the nickname Generous and very unstable. For a short period of time I managed to change a large number of teams and championships.
Career development
Royston received primary training and experience at FC Neptunus, and then, upon reaching thirteen, he moved to the Feyenoord team school. However, he was almost expelled from there, only the intervention of the head of the club helped. Already in childhood, a complex character was traced.
For the youth team of the Netherlands, Royston Drenthe made his first appearance at the European Championship among youth teams. In 2007, it was the team for which he played that title. And Drenthe himself earned the title of best player in the tournament.
Adult clubs
In his first season, Royston Drenthe, a soccer player who plays defender and midfielder, spent just three matches for the Feyenoord club. But in 2008-2009, fans had the pleasure of watching this player for 28 matches.
After his participation in the international tournament, several European clubs wanted to get Royston into their ranks. Complicated and very long negotiations led to the fact that, having given fourteen million to Feyenoord, Real Madrid saw the midfielder in his camp. The place in the main team always remained with him, but this did not last so long. Soon he was replaced by Marcelo, who was the best at that time.
August 2010 brought the start of the rental period for Royston. Hercules became home for the season, in which 17 matches were played and four goals were scored against the opponents. In 2012, the player did not enter the field until December, and the next year the midfielder spent in the English Everton, scoring three goals in twenty-one games.
For the Russian fans, the Dutch player was remembered for playing for the Alania football club in 2013. It was there that he first upset the goalkeeper three times in a game with Mordovia. But when the team leaves the Premier League, Drenthe goes to Reading, and a year later he goes on loan again, this time to Sheffield Wensday.
In 2015, the football player turned up at the Kayseri Erciyespor Turkish club, however, he doesn’t play there until the end of the contract and goes to the team from Abu Dhabi, which is called Bani Yas, where he currently plays.
National team games
A twenty-nine-year-old midfielder cannot boast of a large number of games for his country's adult team. But at a young age, everything turned out very well, because with the youth team Royston Drenthe became the European champion in 2007.
The player was also lucky to defend the flag of his country at the 2008 Summer Olympics. And already in the adult team of the Netherlands, the football player entered the field since 2010, when he first played, replacing the player in the match with the Turkish national team.
Drenthe out of the field
Because of its sometimes nasty character, a football player often got both from coaches and from fans.
Royston Drenthe is known to the world not only as a football player, but also as an actor who played in one of the series, as well as as a rap artist. The first track was recorded in 2008, together with U-Niq. Together with Ryan Babel, Drenthe recorded one of his tracks.
In his work there are many topics, but one of the main ones is family. One of the compositions is even dedicated to his daughter.
According to friends, a football player fits in a bad and good person, and often the first one comes out.
The scandal that pushed many in the Netherlands away from him, no, no, and it pops up in the press, although more than 5 years have passed since then. Royston Drenthe, whose wife bore a second child under her heart, cheated on her with Malena Gracia, a Spanish model who twice appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine.