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Wife’s illness prevented van der Vaart leaving Madrid earlier

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 09/03/2010 - 18:26

New Tottenham midfielder Rafael van der Vaart did not leave Real Madrid a year ago because his wife had developed breast cancer.

Holland star Van der Vaart was set to be sold by the Spanish giants last summer but he refused to move on while model wife Sylvie was undergoing what proved to be successful treatment.

Atletico Madrid did try to buy the 27-year-old, however, but Real did not want to sell to their city rivals, instead accepting Tottenham's last-gasp £8million bid on transfer deadline day.

Van der Vaart told Marca: "Thank God my wife is now perfectly okay.

"She had a very serious illness and it is true that she had to be treated at the Clinica Quiron.

"Last season, they wanted me to leave but I couldn't leave for that reason.

"Now she is well and the only thing that happened was that Madrid wanted to sell and I wanted to get back to enjoying playing football, and Tottenham are a great team that are going to give me the football opportunities that I need."

 
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Comments (2)

Submitted by Somali_Spurs (not verified) on Sat, 09/04/2010 - 07:51.

You & your beautiful wife are so welcome to Tottenham Hotspur.
We appreciate good skilful players...

Submitted by MADRILENO (not verified) on Sat, 09/04/2010 - 01:00.

Madrid directors are just...not more than a piece of shit. they give no value to top footballers and treat them like shit. i just wish you good luck with your new club vdv.

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