A year after his retirement from professional football the former Bayern works Star Arjen Robben to a Comeback for his former club FC Groningen. The 36-year-old Dutch train in order to be at the Start of the new season, part of the team, informed the first division club on Saturday. On Sunday at a press conference Details to be announced.
“The club can currently need all the help to come to good by means of the Corona crisis,” said Robben on the website of the club. In the past few weeks he had had many conversations with club members and Fans listened. “Arjen, listen to Your heart!”, would have told him. “As it began to tingle, and now this is my Mission. I’m working on a Comeback as a footballer.“
The so-called “Pride of the North” had started to seal once in the youth Academy of his football career. Whether the return will succeed, he did not know yet. “What I do know, however, is that it should not fail because of my commitment and my Motivation. It is my dream to play again in the Jersey of FC Groningen.“
It was “delighted and flattered” that the seals “love the club”, a return to the professional plan to the football, shared with Groningen. In the aborted season, the club had occupied ninth place in the Dutch Eredivisie.