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By Sean Cole
Football writer
He is on his way to a photoshoot at Amsterdam If the phone is answered by Royston Drenthe. It’s for an underwear company, also will comprise several former footballers. “I do not even have a six-pack however they still want me,” he laughs.
Real Madrid, the former Feyenoord and Everton winger has ever been willing to try new items. For such a personality, who has researched interests in poker, fashion, perfume and music, nothing else must come as surprise.
In 32, Drenthe is looking for Kozakken Boys in the next grade of Dutch soccer. He was perhaps the most hunted prospect in Europe, or even the world, but his career did not quite go to program up before his brief retirement at the age of 29.
“The two years I stopped I had something fresh,” says Drenthe. “I only had to step out for a little to find myself again.”
As the Netherlands’ next celebrity with led his nation to victory in the European Under-21s Championship, in addition to claiming the award for the best player of the tournament, Drenthe was hailed in the summer of 2007.
Famous figures such as Andrea Pirlo, Luis Figo and Fabio Cannavaro had won the award.
“It was an amazing feeling. At the European philosopher everything went nicely and when clubs start requesting you it’s just like a fantasy come true. I had to make a decision.
“There were large clubs like Chelsea, Manchester United and Barcelona. It wasn’t an easy decision to make but I chose Real Madrid since my step-dad was always a huge fan of those.”
Drenthe was just 20, with a single full season in football behind him, when he moved into arguably the world club for 14m euros.
“You must take some chances straight away. A lot of folks would say,’it had been for him. Why did he leave Feyenoord?’ That’s football. You make decisions to triumph but sometimes they do not go the way you desire,” he says.
“I felt at home straight away because the players were quite nice for me and they assisted me. They were big stars but they treated them like a normal boy.”
Drenthe tended towards the spectacular. He scored on his introduction using a attack that was thumping and featured in his very first time, initially keeping Marcelo. He won the name but fell out of favour.
In the fans of a mutually demanding club, whose, Drenthe came. Stress was induced by the stress.
“I had been a young lad who came to a big team playing in front of 90,000 people every home match,” he clarifies.
“There came a moment in which I had a problem but the folks around me talked to me and helped to point me in the ideal direction.”
Loaned out following a third year in Madrid to Hercules, progress on the pitch has been followed closely by strife and uncertainty .
“It was very good but also very bad. I had a terrific time but it was a time to your club. They were not paying wages and that sort of stuff,” he states.
“At that instant it wasn’t simple. I was like,’If they do not pay wages, I’m not coming to training’.”
Drenthe went on attack, and found himself a goal for those fans’ frustration as a outcome.
Another asserting loan spell at Everton turned sour when David Moyes ostracised him amid rumours of a wayward lifestyle and indiscipline.
“Sometimes things happen and I got punished to the things that I did. It is like seven years today. A number of those things that I did, I do know I did them.
“I always focused on soccer. You guys believe that I did not but that I did. Many people today read items in order that they obtain their view and see things. But they don’t know me as someone. It does not bother me.”
Drenthe needed a reputation as a playboy and party animal. Wrongly or rightly, the perception has endured as his priorities have shifted. It surely does not tally by how he sees now.
“I like to help folks. I am open. I’m a family man. I’m just Royston, you understand? I move with the flow.”
Drenthe spent a Couple of months in Russia at Alania Vladikavkaz prior to returning to England with Reading and then Sheffield Wednesday, earlier spells at Turkey and the UAE.
After more issues with agents and outstanding wages Drenthe, disillusioned, retired in 2016nine years from Europe’s main clubs clamouring to signal him.
“I had been creating songs but it’s hard to say I was focused on one thing. I was busy with a great deal of different things,” he states.
“I’ve always enjoyed music. When I am happy I listen to songs and when I am sad I listen to songs. It always gives me a fantastic feeling.”
There was also his six children, a clothes store, a perfume shop and a company to keep him occupied.
Last summer he received the offer from his former mentor, the director of Sparta Rotterdam, Henk Fraser, to give a second move to football.
And today Drenthe’s playing alongside his cousin by Kozakken Boys at the third tier in front of audiences of a few thousand. He’s glad to still be playing although it is not the Bernabeu.
Drenthe himself does not share it, although for observers, bewitched by his own abilities as a kid, there’ll always be a lingering feeling of what might have been.
“No regrets in any way. Everything happens for a reason,” he states. “I do not regret anything because I’m content with where I am and I’m happy with where I’ve been. I’m living my life at the moment.”
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