Robben had to contend with minor physical complaints in recent weeks, as a result of which he missed the competition matches with Fortuna Sittard and VVV-Venlo. He will now follow a tailor-made individual training program.
“No deadline has been set for the process, but the attacker will no longer take action before December,” FC Groningen reports on the website. “The club opts for this explanation so that they do not have to spend every week answering the question of whether Robben is going to play or not.”
“I had hoped for more and better, but it is not illogical”
Robben doesn’t want that at all. „For the trainer and my fellow players it is not nice that it is about me almost every week, while I am not there. The team is doing very well at the moment and the guys who deliver the current performance deserve the attention and compliments for this. ”
Arjen Robben will focus on training for the time being.
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Bumps
The former international is disappointed with the current situation. “I’m not going to deny that it is a bit disappointing at the moment. I had hoped to have had a share in more competitions, but after a few small aches and pains in a row, the reality is that it isn’t. These are the bumps we said from the start would come. That is not strange, but it is a setback. I had hoped for more and better, but it is not illogical: you have stopped for a year, you have a certain age and a history with injuries. ”
“It hits me a bit raw now that I have to forget about the matches for the time being”
Robben took this scenario into account in advance, he said several times. “We started it without any guarantees. It could be 1, 20 or 0 matches. For the time being we are on 2 games, without a full game. That is a disappointment, but it would have been more striking if I had played all 7 games for 90 minutes. It is now a bit raw on the roof that I have to put the games out of my mind for the time being – that is what you do it all for and I really want to – but I first have to be able to provide more specific training work again. Physically I am strong, but a football tax is very different. It is nice that I have been able to train very specifically in recent months. I also notice that the feeling is still there: the dribbles, the movements, the feeling of the ball. ”
Positive feeling
Of course Robben has doubts with regard to the future. Yet he continues to focus on his goal: to be important to FC Groningen, the club where he was trained and broke through as a young talent.
“Surely there will be reactions like, ‘What is that boy doing?’ And I myself sometimes have that thought: ‘Does this still make sense? Is there still enough prospects for the future? ‘ Of course it has to be fun and realistic. The bumps are not fun, but they are part of it. We still go for it, without guarantees. I still hope to get where I want to be. It takes a lot of energy, for sure. And although the intended result is not yet there at the moment, I still have a positive feeling. That’s also because of the supporters, who I think still appreciate what I’m trying. We are just underway in the competition. There are still a lot of competitions to come. ”
