Robin van Persie

What fascinates me about van Persie is the contradiction he embodied: a striker of almost balletic elegance whose finest goals felt half-instinct, half-geometry, like that famous flying header. The technique and vision were undeniable, yet there was always a fragile, mercurial quality that made him compelling rather than machine-like. Now back at Feyenoord as a coach, I'm genuinely curious whether that goalscorer's intuition can be taught at all, or whether it dies in the translation. He strikes me as a man chasing the same beauty from the dugout that he once chased on the pitch, which I find quietly moving.

Name (English)

Robin van Persie

Name (Japanese)

ロビン・ファン・ペルシ

Reading

ろびん・ふぁん・ぺるし

Born

August 6, 1983 (age 43)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Boar

Origin

Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Height

183 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

• Official sitehttp://robinvanpersie.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/robinvanpersie/
• Xhttps://x.com/Persie_Official
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%20van%20Persie
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%93%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9A%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B7
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2339

Tags

• South Holland
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-11

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