Talk:Robin van Persie

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To-do list for Robin van Persie: edit · history · watch · refresh

Short term

  • Expand and make relevant the lead section
  • Expand upon RVP's childhood (there's the famous "janitor" story etc.)
  • Add citations to basically everything
  • Muster up courage to delete International Goals table =(
  • Add "international stats" table to replace it
  • Formalise section headings to that of Thierry Henry etc.
  • Add "Outside football" section - include expanded info on his rape case
  • Expand "International career" section (not necessarily in size, but in information)
  • Add "style of play" section as is now fashionable

Long term

  • Add to the lead section once the rest of the article has been expanded
  • Get article promoted to GA status
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Contents

[edit] Muslim?

A previous version of this article stated that he has been a Muslim since childhood, due to a friendship with a Moroccan janitor. Is this definitely not true? --MartinUK 18:19, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Accent Club

A message for people who try to include non-notable stuff like the accent club. Please, come back when the club is about 1000 people and not 7. Svest 00:29, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Girlfriend?

Does anyone know, if he has a girlfriend? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.245.242.226 (talk • contribs)

YES. He's married and converted to Islam so he can marry his long time girlfriend.

It's possible, but he is married.  SLUMGUM  yap  stalk  15:52, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Just out of curiousity, why are you interested in gossip about footballers love lives (C.Ronaldo, Van Persie)? hedpeguyuk 17:33 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, first, we (my best friend and I) think, they are quite cute and girls (like we are) love gossips! And then, the girls in our class made a "single or not?"-list with some football-players (it`s the World Cup, we talk about nothing else...) and theese two are the only one, that are missing!

He is married to a Dutch Moroccan called Bouchra. -- Szvest 09:23, 27 June 2006 (UTC) Wiki me up™

[edit] Rape Allegations

Should a comment be added about the alleged rape charge against him and two friends, (although the Dutch Police eventually dropped the charges)? In addition was not his exit from Dutch football partly caused by the attack on players by Ajax fans at a reserve match? --Vivbaker 17:42, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

The first part should be added (the rape part). The part about leaving Dutch football because of that, I don't know since it's only natural for good Dutch footballers to eventually move away to the better leagues. Yonatanh 01:14, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

His exit from Dutch football wasn't because of this reserve match between Ajax and Feyenoord. He left Feyenoord mainly because he ended up playing in the reserve team thanks to a conflict with coach Van Marwijk. He was close to sign up with PSV (which is of course also in Holland), but when Arsenal showed interest he didn't hesitate any longer. SportsAddicted 19:00, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] International Career

Can anyone add the date and match he earn't his first full cap plus any info on youth international appearances--Vivbaker 08:38, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Racism?

He was once accused of racism, is this true? I read it a long time ago .. He abused a black player, could be Distin or some other ManCity player .. --84.113.3.151 19:12, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Nothing came of it, plus Distin himself had a poor disciplinary history and was soon after released by his own club, so the claims are dubious 82.46.198.4

[edit] Charlton goal

If this isn't going to get mentioned you might as well delete the whole article, it was on here the other night, but some 'wikipedian' who takes this website too seriously seems to have deleted it. For gods sake!! It was an amazing goal that will live long in the memory of not just Arsenal fans but fans all round the country! If that doesn't deserve a mention nothing does. UncleTheOne

Hello. Wasn't that great of a goal imo, he just struck it blindly is all. His two goals against Belarus for instance were both placed into the far corner and required actual skill. Also, as a comparison, more beautiful and important volleys like Zidane's in the 2002 CL finale and Van Basten's in the Euro '88 final are only briefly mentioned in their articles. Having two paragraphs of speculation that some MotD pundit considers Van Persie's the goal of the season is fanboyish and unencyclopedic, hence I removed it. Igorrr 10:59, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Come on, you cant be serious, it was quite a common consensus among football fans, that it was a once in a lifetime goal 213.121.241.209
No it wasn't. If a Derby player had done this then nobody would care two days later. Its only because it happened from a Arsenal/Man U/Liverpool club that people say that rubbish.
worth a short mention if one can show sources extensively discussing the quality of the goal. from memory I believe the goal was quite talked about in the media so it won't be hard to find sources. the issue may be how much detail if it's mentioned in this article. best way is to find a reputable sportswriter who characterised the goal in some way. Chensiyuan 15:06, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Works Ahead

Dear everyone,

I'm currently revamping this article. The revamp work will take approximately three weeks (Nov 15 - Dec 3 2007). In that time, I will be mainly be adding to the article, but will also delete/reorder lots of what is currently in the article. If you have spent lots of time on the current version of the article (link for how the article looked before I started messing with it), and you have any comments whatsoever about the changes I'm making, I'd greatly appreciate your input. Maybe you are unhappy that I deleted something you wrote, maybe you don't like how I changed your table, or maybe you've spotted something stupid that I have (or have neglected to have) written. Whatever your concerns (or comments), please write them below. I don't want to seem like I'm air-headedly steaming through the article changing everything without first thinking - but at the same time, I will probably do some annoying or stupid things to an article which lots of people have spent lots of time on. So please alert me if you spot anything or if you're annoyed that I've just ruined all your work, and we'll discuss it.

Thank you, GilbertoSilvaFan 15:33, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Some painfully obvious online sources that could be used

Dear Van Persie,

My name is Dyhlan Neil and I am 8 years old. I live in Ireland. I think you are a brillant football player. You are best player in the world. All my friends love you they are your biggest fans and so am I. I wish I could meet you. I play for Eany Celtic my local football club and one day I want to play for Arsnal.

From

Dyhlan Neil. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.40.207.25 (talk) 20:12, 29 February 2008 (UTC)