{"id":21308,"date":"2025-10-19T23:55:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/royston-drenthe-former-real-madrid-and-everton-winger-suffers-stroke\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T23:55:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:55:17","slug":"royston-drenthe-former-real-madrid-and-everton-winger-suffers-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/royston-drenthe-former-real-madrid-and-everton-winger-suffers-stroke\/","title":{"rendered":"Royston Drenthe: Former Real Madrid and Everton winger suffers stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former Real Madrid and Everton winger Royston Drenthe is in hospital after suffering a stroke.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 38-year-old ex-Netherlands international was admitted to hospital on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The news was announced by FC de Rebellen, an agency which represents former footballers including Drenthe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A statement read: &#8220;Last Friday, Royston Drenthe suffered a stroke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Drenthe is currently receiving good care and is in good hands. The team and those involved hope for a speedy recovery.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Drenthe began his professional career with Feyenoord before moving to Real Madrid in 2007, winning the La Liga title a year later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He went on loan to Everton in 2011-12 and spells at other clubs included Reading and Sheffield Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A statement from Everton on X read: &#8220;Everyone at Everton wishes Royston Drenthe a full and speedy return to full health after reports he&#8217;s been taken to hospital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cz7peq9evywo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Real Madrid and Everton winger Royston Drenthe is in hospital after suffering a stroke. The 38-year-old ex-Netherlands international was admitted to hospital on Friday. The news was announced by FC de Rebellen, an agency which represents former footballers including Drenthe. A statement read: &#8220;Last Friday, Royston Drenthe suffered a stroke. &#8220;Drenthe is currently receiving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21310,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21308\/revisions\/21310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}