{"id":212114,"date":"2025-10-20T01:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T01:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/212114\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T01:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T01:15:08","slug":"royston-drenthe-former-real-madrid-and-everton-winger-suffers-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/212114\/","title":{"rendered":"Royston Drenthe: Former Real Madrid and Everton winger suffers stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Real Madrid and Everton winger Royston Drenthe is in hospital after suffering a stroke.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Real Madrid and Everton winger Royston Drenthe is in hospital after suffering a stroke. The 38-year-old ex-Netherlands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-212114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}