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From Sean Cole
Football author
He’s on his way into a photoshoot in 16, when the telephone is answered by Royston Drenthe. It’s for an underwear company, also will feature former footballers. “I do not have a six-pack but they still need me,” he moans.
The Feyenoord, Real Madrid and winger has been ready to try new things. For such a colourful character, who has researched interests in poker, fashion, perfume and music, nothing else must come as surprise.
For Kozakken Boys in the next tier of football, Drenthe is currently looking with at 32. He was perhaps the very sought after prospect in Europe, if not the planet, but his career did not go to plan up before his retirement in the age of 29.
“The two years that I stopped I had something new,” states Drenthe. “I only needed to step out for a bit to find myself again.”
As the Netherlands’ next celebrity having led his nation to victory from the Championship, in addition to claiming the award for the best player of the tournament, Drenthe was hailed Throughout the summer of 2007.
Famous figures such as Andrea Pirlo, Luis Figo and Fabio Cannavaro had won the identical award.
“It was an wonderful feeling. At that European Championships everything went nicely and when nightclubs begin asking for you it is like a dream come true. I needed to make a choice about what I needed to perform.
“There were large clubs like Chelsea, Manchester United and Barcelona. It wasn’t an easy choice to make but that I chose Real Madrid since my step-dad was always a big fan of those.”
Drenthe was only 20, with a single full year in senior football supporting him, when he moved to arguably the world club for 14m euros.
“You must take some chances immediately. A great deal of folks would say,’it had been for him. Why did he abandon Feyenoord?’ That is football. You make decisions to succeed but sometimes they don’t go how you desire,” he says.
“I felt at home right away because the players were very nice to me and they assisted me. They were huge stars but they treated me as a regular boy.”
Drenthe tended towards the spectacular. He scored on his debut using a thumping strike and featured in his very first season, initially keeping Marcelo. The title was won by him under Bernd Schuster but dropped from favour.
In the fans of a club, whose, Drenthe came up short. Stress was induced by the strain.
“I was a young lad who arrived to a huge team , playing in front of 90,000 people every home game,” he explains.
“There came a moment where I had a problem but the folks around me spoke to me and helped me in the right direction.”
Loaned out following a difficult third season in Madrid to Hercules, progress on the pitch was accompanied uncertainty and by strife it off.
“It was really good but also very bad. It turned out to be a time to the club although I had a wonderful time there. They weren’t paying salaries and that sort of stuff,” he states.
“At the instant it wasn’t easy. I was just like,’When they don’t pay wages, I am not coming into coaching’.”
Drenthe went on strike, and found himself a target for the fans’ frustration as a outcome.
Another promising loan spell at Everton turned sour when David Moyes ostracised him amid rumours of indiscipline and a way of life that was wayward.
“Sometimes things happen and I’ve punished to the things I did. It’s like seven decades. A number of those things that I did, so I do know that I did them.
“I constantly focused on soccer. You guys believe I didn’t but that I always did. Many people today see things and read items in order that they receive their view. However, they don’t know me. It doesn’t bother me.”
Drenthe had a reputation as a playboy and celebration animal throughout his profession. Rightly or wrongly, the perception has endured as his priorities have shifted. It surely does not tally by how he sees himself now.
“I love to help people. I’m open. I am a family person. I Royston, you know? I go with the stream.”
Drenthe spent a few months in Alania Vladikavkaz in Russia prior to returning to England and then Sheffield before spells at Turkey and the UAE.
After problems with brokers and outstanding wages Drenthe, disillusioned, retired from Europe’s biggest clubs clamouring to signal him nine years in 2016.
“I was creating songs but it’s difficult to say I was focused on one thing. I was busy with lots of different things,” he states.
“I’ve always liked music. When I’m happy I listen to songs and when I am sad I listen to music also. It always gives me a great feeling.”
Besides rapping as Roya2Faces, there was also a clothing shop a record company, a perfume store and his six children to keep him occupied.
Then that he received an offer from his former mentor, Sparta Rotterdam’s director, Henk Fraser, to give football a second move.
And Drenthe’s playing with Kozakken Boys in the Dutch third tier facing crowds of at most a couple of million along with his cousin. He’s happy to be playing although it is not exactly the Bernabeu.
It doesn’t be shared by Drenthe himself, although for casual observers, bewitched with his skills as a youngster, there’ll always be a lingering feeling of what could have been.
“No regrets in any way. This happens for a reason,” he states. “I don’t regret anything because I am content with where I’m and I’m satisfied with where I have been. I’m living my life at the moment.”
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