Van Persie is desperate for a trophy – and gives advice to youngsters!
Van Persie wants another trophy
The Arsenal striker Robin Van Persie is in devastating form lately, and is ready to believe that the team are going to win a trophy soon with some beautiful football.
“So far I have only won two trophies at Arsenal – the FA Cup and the Community Shield. That’s not enough and I would hate to finish my career having won only those here.
“I desperately want to win the Premier League and the Champions League with Arsenal and I truly believe that’s possible.” he said.
“But… I get the chance to play with the likes of Fabregas, Arshavin, Eduardo, Walcott, Nasri and Rosicky – great players who play a beautiful game.
“Then I watch some teams on TV and think: ‘Oh my God, this is so ugly!’
“That helps me realise how special it is to be at a club like this. I want to win it all with Arsenal.”
He also said that it could have been all different if he had tried drink and drugs with his team-mates when he was 14 years-old growing up in Holland.
He says he made a decision then to stay away from them, and he thinks that if he hadn’t, he would never have made it in football.
“I came from a very rough neighbourhood in Rotterdam where there were so many cultures all mixed together.” he said.
“I was one of the only white Dutch guys there – my friends were from Africa, Surinam, Morocco, Turkey.
“And, of course, there were distractions. Like when I was younger and was in a shop buying candy – I would pay for one but then take another one.
“I did that sort of thing here and there. We were kids and we all did it. But when I got to 14, I found myself at a crossroads in my life.
“I could have easily gone astray. I saw people doing stupid things – my team-mates, my colleagues, my friends.
“For instance, my friends tried to make me have a drink, have a cigarette and stuff – well, you know, it was Holland.
“But I was always more interested in football, that was what I wanted to do more than anything. So I never did those things.
“I never went to that dark side. It would have been easy to have done it – half the team was doing it, most of my friends were doing it. But I did not.
“I just felt it was not right to smoke, to drink, when you are just 14. Everyone told me to try it but I always said ‘no’.
“And the other day I looked at a picture of my under-14s football team and I looked at the ones who were doing those things and also at the ones who weren’t.
“And do you know what? The ones who did it – none of them made it!”
He’s right you know. As probably most of us reading this are the ones that took the wrong road. I know i am!
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Hahaha.. I’ve been over to the dark side for years now. Dont regret it for one minute. How does one survive without beer?