One comes from marking the Perico’s last goal, in his debut as a starter, on Monday in San Mamés (2-1). the other scored Barcelona’s triumphant goalin a penalty not without controversy, in the derby of the first round. They will not coincide on the grass, for striker convalescence, which is reserved for the Champions League against Napoli. Equally, Espanyol-Barcelona means that Tonny Vilhena and Memphis Depay cross paths againunited by Rotterdam, the Eredivisie, the Dutch national team… and rap.
Born respectively in Maassluis Y Dordrechtsuburbs of the second most populous city in the Netherlands, are precisely the streets of rotterdamthat both – 27 years old, born just 11 months apart – they kicked in their childhood and youth, the urban decoration of the video clip which was published in July 2019. Memphis, in her role as a singer, had Vilhena for the staging of the song ‘Fall back‘, in which two other Oranje internationals also appear: the Tottenham player Steven Bergwijn and Justin Kluivert, who now shines at Nice on loan from Roma and son of ex-Barcelonista Patrick Kluivert. At that time, in fact, all acted in the selection under the orders of Ronald Koeman.
“Us the young kings of this generation” the “to all ballplayers only like the ‘haters” are just some of the phrases of the video clip, which as usual in the rap genre displays ostentation both in the letter –who talks about jewelry, yachts, cash or directly recites “we could buy islands”– like in the imageswhere luxury cars and a private jet appear.
Behind their appearance of rappers, Memphis and Vilhena are linked by an old friendship, from the youth ranks of the Dutch national teamalong with the also azulgrana Luke de Jong. With the Sub-21For example, they played together European 2013 in Israel, where Spain thrashed them 3-0 (goals from Álvaro Morata, Isco Alarcón and Álvaro Vázquez) with both starting. And with the absolute, although the Espanyol midfielder today has lavished less, yes He has played 15 games –there also with Frenkie de Jong– with up to four different coaches: Danny Blind, Dick Advocaat, the aforementioned Koeman and Fred Grim.
Vilhena, between Morata and Isco in the 2013 European Championship.
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Vilhena did not get to play a single minute under the baton of Frank de Boer, despite the fact that the ex-Barcelonista had him in the pre-list of 36 players for the European Championship from last summer, although he ended up discarded in the final filter, among others, with the aforementioned Bergwijn.
The biceps femoris of Memphis will not allow them to repeat this Sunday on the field of play the clashes that they starred in the Eredivisie, in el clasicazo netherlands Feyenoord-PSV Eindhoven, until the attacker flew in 2015 to Manchester United. They will always have rap.