Royston Drenthe

Royston Drenthe is one of those players I find genuinely compelling, flaws and all. A Rotterdam kid out of Feyenoord's academy who earned a Real Madrid move at twenty carried enormous expectation, and at just 168 cm he attacked the left flank with a fearless mix of pace and power. The career that followed was turbulent rather than linear, but I've always had a soft spot for mercurial talents who burn bright in flashes. The Bernabeu rarely gambles on teenagers without reason. Whatever the ups and downs, the raw ability was unmistakable, and that is what I remember.

Name (English)

Royston Drenthe

Name (Japanese)

ロイストン・ドレンテ

Reading

ろいすとん・どれんて

Born

April 8, 1987 (age 39)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rabbit

Origin

Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Height

168 cm

Occupation

association football player

• Official sitehttp://www.roystonrickydrenthe.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royston%20Drenthe
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%86
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q287815

Tags

• South Holland
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.