By Maarten Wijffels
A. Arjen and not Arjan
It remains such an anecdote that never bores. Arjen Robben was able to go to Ajax and PSV as a teenager and the choice of the family would have been determined at the first impression. Ajax’ technical director Leo Beenhakker called mother Marjo ‘meissie’ and on a map brought along was ‘Arjan Robben’ instead of Arjen. “But those kinds of anecdotes are always a bit abused. If you base your choice of club on that… No, I certainly didn’t. I chose PSV, not against Ajax”, said Robben when the NOS asked him about it years later.
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