Short introduction
Arjen Robben is a former professional soccer player who plays for most of his career at Bayern Munich. He was also a Dutch national player for 14 years. His biggest success was to win the Champions League in 2013 with Bayern and the title as runner-up with the Netherlands in 2010. Before that, he had not developed into regular at Chelsea and Real Madrid, which he had at his early PSV Eindhoven career had.
Early life
In 1984 he was born in Friesland in North Holland. At his youth club VV Bedum and FC Groningen, his great talent was immediately visible. So he moved to FC Groningen Youth Academy at the age of 12 – still very unusual at that time. He made a professional football debut at the age of 16 when he competed for the first FC Groningen team at the Dutch Eredivisie. After two seasons on professional football at his youth club, he finally moved to PSV Eindhoven which was far greater, where he was also internationally recognized since then.
Career
With PSV Eindhoven, he immediately became the first Dutch champion in 2003. He was individually awarded “Johan Cruyff Scarf”, award for the best young players in Dutch football. After two years in Eindhoven, he moved to Chelsea English club for three seasons. Even though he scored 15 goals in 67 league appearances, he also won the championship in England twice. But he was considered too susceptible to injury.
Therefore, he was not reluctant to be sold to Real Madrid, where, even though 50 appearances in two years in the league, he did not reach the absolute regular players again. All the more surprised is the experts who FC Bayern Munich signed Arjen Robben in the summer of 2009. Here too, he never fully removes certain vulnerabilities to injury, but is deployed much more stable and continuous. Above all, he developed into an absolute world level player. Not only 99 of them announced for Bayern Munich in 201 league appearances. But it also stood on the Dutch national team more and more.
He almost led this team to the 2010 World Cup title, but lost 1-0 for Spain in the final. According to his own information, Arjen Robben missed a very good opportunity to score when the score was 0: 0. However, the increased quality did not suffer as a result. And Arjen Robben held a 10-year period at FC Bayern Munich 2013 with a victory in the Champions League, in the final which he scored a 2-1 win over Borussia Dortmund.
When he also became a national champion at all of his stations except for FC Groningen small (in Spain in 2008), he succeeded in Germany. Only Franck Ribéry won more championships than Robben in the history of German football. There are also five titles in the DFB Cup.
He was never a top scorer in the national league, but always and consistently scored at all of his stations. Twice, in 2013 and 2014, he was among 23 nominations for the beach award this year without winning this award. 2014 is a Dutch athlete this year and the German soccer player in 2010.
In addition, there are many other individual awards such as goalscorers from this month in the Bundesliga, men in the 2014 World Cup matches and entrance tickets to various best tournament chosen teams.
At the beginning of his career in Germany, it was often considered a little swallowing the king with a little sympathy outside FC Bayern, he got a lot of respect for how to play football for his appearance, which was at the highest level for years.
Career highlights
Based on the facts, winning the 2013 Champions League is the biggest success in Arjen Robben’s career, especially because he also contributed the purpose of victory in the final. But he will only be able to answer many of his national titles in the Netherlands, England, Spain and Germany follow. In total, he became the national champion 12 times and won the national cup 6 times respectively. In this case, the entire armor Arjen Robben basically consists of one spotlight after another.