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By Sean Cole
Football writer
When the telephone is answered by Royston Drenthe he is on his way into a photoshoot in Amsterdam. It’s for an underwear business, and will feature many footballers. “I don’t even have a six-pack but they still want me,” he moans.
The former Feyenoord, Real Madrid and winger has been ready to try new items. For such a colourful character, that has explored interests in music, fashion, perfume and poker, nothing else needs to come as a surprise.
At 32, Drenthe is enjoying for Kozakken Boys at the third grade of soccer. His career did not quite go to plan up until his retirement at age 29, although he was once perhaps the very hunted prospect in Europe, or even the planet.
“The two years I stopped I needed something new,” says Drenthe. “I simply needed to step out for a little to find myself again.”
Throughout the summer of 2007, Drenthe was hailed as the Netherlands’ superstar having led his country to success in the European Under-21s Championship, as well as claiming the award for the tournament player.
Famous figures such as Andrea Pirlo Luis Figo and Fabio Cannavaro had won the award.
“This was an amazing feeling. At that European Championships everything was going well and when clubs begin asking for you it’s like a fantasy come true. I had to make a decision about what I needed to do.
“There were big clubs such as Chelsea, Manchester United and Barcelona. It was not a simple choice to make but that I chose Real Madrid because my step-dad was always a huge fan of them.”
Drenthe was only 20, with a single full year in football behind himwhen he moved to arguably the planet’s most glamorous and successful team for euros.
“You have to take some chances immediately. A lot of people would say,’it was way too early for him. Why did he leave Feyenoord?’ That is football. You make choices to triumph but occasionally they don’t go how you want,” he says.
“I felt at home right away because the players were quite nice for me and they assisted me. They were large stars but they treated them like a normal boy.”
Drenthe tended towards the magnificent. He featured frequently in his very first season, originally keeping Marcelo out of the group and scored on his introduction with a pounding long-range strike. The name was won by him under Bernd Schuster but fell out of favour under supervisors, including Jose Mourinho.
At a remarkably demanding club, whose fans had the highest expectations, Drenthe sometimes came. Stress was induced by the pressure.
“I was a young lad who came to a major clubplaying in front of 90,000 people every home game,” he explains.
“There came a moment in which I had a problem but the folks around me talked to me and helped me in the perfect direction”
Loaned out after a tough time in Madrid, progress on the pitch was accompanied doubt and by strife .
“It was very good but also very poor. I had a fantastic time there but it was a bad time to your club. They weren’t paying wages and that sort of stuff,” he states.
“At that instant it was not straightforward. I was just like,’When they don’t pay wages, I’m not coming to coaching’.”
Drenthe went on strike, and found herself a target for those supporters’ frustration as a outcome.
Another promising loan spell at Everton turned sour when David Moyes ostracised him amid rumours of indiscipline and a lifestyle that was wayward.
“Sometimes things happen and I got punished for the things I did. It’s like seven decades. A number of the crazy things that I did, so I don’t even know I did .
“I always focused on football. You guys think I didn’t but I always did. Some people today see items in order that they get their view and see things. However, they don’t understand me as a person. It does not bother me.”
Drenthe needed a reputation as a playboy and celebration monster during his profession. Rightly or wrongly, the public perception has endured even as his priorities have changed. With how he sees himself 11, it certainly does not tally.
“I like to help folks. I am open. I am a family man. I’m only Royston, you know? I move with the stream.”
Drenthe spent in Russia at Alania Vladikavkaz prior to returning and then Sheffield Wednesday, earlier charms at Turkey and the UAE.
After issues with agents and unpaid wages Drenthe retired in 2016nine years from Europe’s main clubs clamouring to signal him.
“I had been making music but it’s hard to say that I was concentrated on one thing. I had been busy with plenty of different things,” he says.
“I have always enjoyed music. I listen to music as 19, when I am happy when I’m sad and I listen to music. It always gives me a good feeling.”
Besides rapping as Roya2Faces, there was a clothes shop, a company, a perfume shop and his six kids to keep him occupied.
Then that he received an offer from his former coach, Sparta Rotterdam’s director, Henk Fraser, to give football a second go.
And Drentheand Kozakken Boys in the Dutch third tier before audiences of a couple of million’s playing together with his cousin. He’s glad to be enjoying although it’s not exactly the Bernabeu.
It doesn’t be shared by Drenthe himself, although for observers there will always be a lingering sense of what could happen to be.
“No regrets whatsoever. This happens for a reason,” he states. “I don’t regret anything because I am happy with where I am and I am satisfied with where I have been. I’m living my life right now.”
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