Profile Arjen Robben

Personal information

Full name : Arjen Robben
Date of birth : 23 January 1984
Place of birth : Bedum, Netherlands
Height : 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position : Winger
Current club : Bayern Munich
Number : 10
Youth career :
vv Bedum
Groningen
Senior career :
2000–2002 Groningen
2002–2004 PSV
2004–2007 Chelsea
2007–2009 Real Madrid
2009– Bayern Munich
National team :
2003– Netherlands

Club career

Groningen

Groningen placed Robben in their first team for the 1999–2000 season. He scored two targets in league play. Manager Jan van Dijk additional the winger to the first team ago Groningen's November 2000 away game against Twente, but he did not play until three December 2000 against Waalwijk, as a substitute for the injured Leonardo dos Santos in the 79th minute. Over the winter, Robben handled to play himself into the beginning lineup. In 18 begins for Groningen across the 2000–01 season, he scored pair goals. Robben was dubbed actor of the year for his first season with the club, and with teammate Jordi Hoogstrate, he indicated the strength of the Groningen youth academy. Robben remained with Groningen and renewed steadily during the 2001–02 season, playing in 28 suits and scoring six goals.[9] Robben transferred to PSV for €3.9 million ago the 2002–03 season.

PSV

During his first season for PSV, the 2002–03 season, Robben played 33 suits and scored 12 goals. He was dubbed "PSV co-player of the year" along with striker Mateja Kežman, with whom he shaped an assailing partnership motionless fondly referred to via PSV fans as "Batman and Robben". He facilitated lead PSV to their 17th Dutch name, and won the Talented Player of the Year award. After this good begin, PSV could not retain upward with rival Ajax and were coerced into a brawl for second position in the Eredivisie. Robben rode to London and welcomed with Manchester United bus Sir Alex Ferguson. Ferguson's offer came in much too low for PSV's and Robben's liking; PSV chairman Harry van Raaij confided Manchester United the majority that their €7 million offer would purchase them was a shirt with Robben's autograph. Almost urgently, Chelsea host Roman Abramovich presented €18 million (£12.1 million), and PSV accepted. The relax of his season with PSV was disappointing. He injured his hamstring double and missed a figure of games. By the end of the season, Robben scored five times in 23 Eredivisie matches.

Chelsea

Robben did not produce his competitive debut for Chelsea until November 2004, as he was injured in a pre-season friendly suit against Roma, breaching a metatarsal bone in his right foot in a contest from Olivier Dacourt. During this time, he also received coverage for testicular cancer, from which he fully recovered.

Robben celebrates winning the 2004–05 Premiership

Robben proved to be a vital actor for the 2004–05 season; in November 2004, he was awarded the "Player of the Month" award for the English Premier League. Robben ended the 2004–05 season with seven targets, his second highest businessman total. He was shortlisted for the PFA Young Player of the Year, but was defeated via Wayne Rooney of Manchester United. Robben was poorly injured in a league game away to Blackburn Rovers and coerced to sit out Chelsea's name run-in and progress to the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League.Back to fitness for 2005–06, Robben was an integral fraction of the Chelsea retired wing. In 28 suits, Robben contributed six targets as Chelsea won a second consecutive Premier League championship, the first back-to-back names for the west London club.

The 2005–06 season saw Robben interested in an unsporting occurrence with Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina. Towards the end of a league game between Chelsea and Liverpool at Stamford Bridge, which Chelsea won 2–0, Reina pushed his hand in Robben's face afterwards several provocative words from Robben. Robben plummeted theatrically to the turf, and Reina received a red card for "violent behaviour", as violent conduct is illegal. As a effect of the occurrence Reina remarked that Robben "did well enough to win an Oscar" for his theatrics. Liverpool administrator Rafael Benitez subsequent laughed in a post-match interview that he "would shortly be headed to hospital to test on Robben's condition". Reina's red card was not rescinded. He was dubbed man of the Match on 23 December 2006 against Wigan, a suit where he obtained pair contributes and the winning goal.
Robben was inflicted with yet another injury in a suit against Liverpool on twenty January 2007. Robben prepared his return in a 3–0 victory against Middlesbrough in February powering in a shot that took a deflection past Mark Schwarzer for an possess target via Abel Xavier. Robben scored a target in the second around of the UEFA Champions League against Porto, which led to Chelsea winning the tie 3–2 on aggregate. At the end of March 2007, Robben underwent a knee mission afterwards maintaining a knee injury upon returning from global duty that was expected to govern him out for at least four weeks. Spanish club Real Madrid were interested in pair of Chelsea's players. Then administrator Bernd Schuster is said to have requested Michael Ballack, whereas Madrid's prior president, Ramón Calderón, was known to favor Robben. Robben said to journalists of Spanish newspaper AS: "I do not know as shortly as a sell shall be reached. I would like to send a lesson to the Madrid fans, but I can't until my future is sorted."

Real Madrid finally roped Robben's services in August 2007. He confided Chelsea's official club website: "It was difficult to retire because I had a great time in my three years at Chelsea and I prepared a lot of friends. There was no time to say goodbye because the sell was plugged on the Wednesday at ten o'clock in the night and the chasing morning I had to fly. If I have one day off I would want to come rear and say goodbye because to the fans I owe a tall thank you because they were invariably good to me. In my three years I won all the prizes there are to win in England."

Real Madrid

Robben ended his shift to Real Madrid on a five-year sell on 22 August 2007,[29] with the transfer payment reported as £24 million (€35 million). He prepared his debut on 18 September, during a Champions League suit against Werder Bremen. Robben proved vital for a lot Real Madrid suits, earning his legendary runs down the retired wing, and rapidly became a first option for the retired midfield position.

Although the Dutchman was one of Spanish side's majority significant players in the pre-season sport of the 2009–10 season, having scored three targets and aid establish another four, he was among the players whose position in the first team became endangered chasing the arrival of Florentino Pérez and the signings of Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaká. Real Madrid acknowledged a bid of circle €25 million for Robben from Bayern Munich. Robben asserted he was "forced" to retire Real Madrid, phrase that he "didn't want to go, but the club hoped to sell him".


Bayern Munich

On 28 August 2009, Robben shifted to Bayern Munich for circle €25 million. He was given the figure ten shirt, final worn via his fellow Dutchman, Roy Makaay. His debut came the day after. He came on as a half-time substitute against Wolfsburg, scored pair targets, and facilitated his team defeat final season's heroes in Bayern's first win of the season. On 9 March 2010, Robben scored the deciding target in Bayern's 2–3 defeat (4–4 on compound across pair legs) against Fiorentina, taking them through to the quarter finals of the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League on away goals.

On seven April 2010, Robben sent Bayern Munich into the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League with a spectacular volley against Manchester United from the fringe of the field into the corner of the net. The game ended 3–2 to United (4–4 on aggregate) with Bayern improving again due to away goals.

On 17 April 2010, he scored his first hat-trick in the Bundesliga against Hannover 96 in the Allianz Arena. The game ended 7–0 to the Bavarians. On eight May 2010, he won his first Bundesliga name with Bayern Munich afterwards scoring pair targets in their 3–1 victory across Hertha BSC Berlin, finalising as Bayern's lid scorer in the process.

A week subsequent, Bayern Munich played in the DFB-Pokal Final against the earlier heroes of the tournament, Werder Bremen, in Berlin's Olympiastadion. Bayern Munich won the game via 4-0; Arjen Robben scored the first of those four targets from a punishment kick. Robben therefore facilitated the Bavarians achieve their fifteenth DFB Pokal title. On 25 May 2010 Robben was dubbed Footballer of the Year in Germany for the year 2010.He won the election via attaining a record 72.1% of the vote and was the first Dutch person to win this election.

The 2010–11 season began poorly for Robben, afterwards medical checks confirmed that his hamstring had not properly cured and that he would be out for pair months. Bayern chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge stated that "Of course, Bayern Munich are very angry" with the Dutch FA, and would be searching compensation from them, continuing "Once again we must reward the bill as a club afterwards a actor is seriously injured playing for a national team."

Robben was appointed for the Uefa Champions League best midfielder, but this went to fellow compatriot Wesley Sneijder. He has also been appointed for the prestigious Ballon d'Or award, and the FIFA Puskás Award, which goes to the best target of the year, and he has also been appointed for FIFA’s FIFPro World XI 2010 squad, thank you to his heavenly season with Bayern Munich.

International career

Euro 2004

Robben has played in 51 sport for the Netherlands, scoring 16 goals. The first global experience of Robben's career came in Euro 2004 as shortly as bus Dick Advocaat paged upward younger players such as Wesley Sneijder and John Heitinga. During Euro 2004 Advocaat substituted Robben in the 66th tiny to protect a 2–1 lead across the Czech Republic. However, the Czech team thereafter scored pair targets and won 3–2, which led to criticism approximate Advocaat's decision. In the same tournament, it was Robben whoever scored the deciding punishment in the shootout between the Netherlands and Sweden, which ensured that at the fifth bid, the Dutch eventually won a punishment shootout.
Robben (left) with Robin van Persie.

2006 World Cup

Robben played in his first World Cup Qualifiers in 2006. In six sport for the Netherlands, Robben scored pair goals. The Netherlands qualified for the World Cup in 2006 and in the Netherlands opportunity suit against Serbia and Montenegro, Robben scored the winning target in the 18th tiny, and was dubbed the Man of the match. In the suit against Côte d'Ivoire, Robben received this award the second time, therefore becoming one of the eight players in the tournament to have won the Man of the Match Award more than once.


Euro 2008

During the Euro 2008, bus Marco van Basten altered the formation to 4–2–3–1, preferring the midfield trio of Rafael van der Vaart, Wesley Sneijder and Dirk Kuyt. Robben was retired to combat it out with Robin van Persie for a position on the wing. In the team suit against France, which the Netherlands won 4–1, Robben was brought on at half-time. He pulled the ball out of arrive of a defender near the half-way queue and stepped his way forward of three defenders, thereafter traversed straight to van Persie whoever powered a shot into the target past Grégory Coupet, whoever succeeded enough to obtain a hand onto it. At 2–0, Thierry Henry scored a target, earning it 2–1, and nearly immediately afterwards the resume, Robben was played through via Sneijder and he flowed at the France target and was coerced into an acute bend, but regardless the bend, he shot the ball into the net past Coupet.

2010 World Cup

Robben was chosen via the Netherlands administrator Bert van Marwijk for the final squad of 23 for the World Cup. In the final friendly suit against Hungary, just ago the flight to South Africa on 4 June, Robben plummeted stiffly towards the end of the suit, and picked upward a hamstring injury which caused consideration across his fitness for the world cup. On 5 June, Van Marwijk broadcast that he'd "decided not to summon any substitute for Arjen. I want to give him every chance to motionless participate in the World Cup." On 12 June 2010, Arjen arrived in South Africa to attend the team.[53] He was an unused substitute for the opportunity game against Denmark as they coasted to a 2-0 victory, and again in the 1-0 victory against Japan. He came on in the 73rd tiny against Cameroon in their 2-1 victory, hammering the post from which Klaas-Jan Huntelaar scored from the rebound. On 28 June 2010, he began his first suit against Slovakia in which he went on to score the first target in the second around as the Netherlands won 2-1. He also went on to pick upward the man of the suit award. Robben scored the third target with a well-placed header in the semi-finals against Uruguay which the Netherlands won 3-2 to arrive the final.[56] Robben played for the full suit in the final as the Netherlands no where 1-0 to Spain. Robben was also appointed for the 2010 World Cup Golden Ball, the tournament's best actor, which was won via Diego Forlán