Royston Drenthe, a football globetrotter, decided to hang up his boots at the age of 36. Among the many teams for which the Dutch left winger played, the real Madridwho signed him 16 years ago as one of the great promises of world football after standing in Feyenoord Rotterdam.
This is a project for a good player and supported by his outstanding performance in the Dutch team in 2007 U-21 Euro Cupwhere he was declared the best player of the tournament.
He Cossack Boys of the Netherlands announced on its social networks the departure of Drenthe. The veteran footballer played for the entire third category of Dutch football and decided to end his long football career, which was marked by his lost life outside the field of play, and which ran between Netherlands, Spain, Russia, United Arab Emirates, England and Turkey.
Drenthe became known in 2007, when the Real Madrid signed him at the request of then sports director Pedja Mijatovic, at only 20 years old and after paying 14 million euros to Feyenoord.
The player, who came to the white club with the sign of the ‘heir’ of Roberto Carlos, was a merengue soccer player for five years, until 2012, and played 65 games in which he scored four goals and provided five assists. His nights of violence in Madrid caught up with him. In Spanish football he also defended the colors of Hercules, Racing Murcia, Real Murcia and Racing Mérida.
Source: La Verdad
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