{"id":367395,"date":"2011-04-04T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/04\/tottenham%e2%80%99s-rafael-van-der-vaart-sometimes-i-miss-playing-for-real-madrid\/"},"modified":"2011-04-04T20:46:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T20:46:00","slug":"tottenhams-rafael-van-der-vaart-sometimes-i-miss-playing-for-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/04\/tottenhams-rafael-van-der-vaart-sometimes-i-miss-playing-for-real-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham\u2019s Rafael van der Vaart: Sometimes I miss playing for Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Subhankar Mondal<\/h3>\n<h4>4 Apr 2011 21:46:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"69.537353255069\">\n<div readability=\"19.636363636364\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cristiano Ronaldo, Higuain, Van der Vaart,  Real Madrid, Valencia (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2c8da56895158_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cristiano Ronaldo, Higuain, Van der Vaart,  Real Madrid, Valencia (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"33.983666061706\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/105\/tottenham\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> midfielder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/netherlands\/2253\/rafael-van-der-vaart\">Rafael van der Vaart<\/a> has admitted that he &#8220;sometimes&#8221; misses playing for his former club <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/spain\/124\/real-madrid\">Real Madrid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Van der Vaart joined Tottenham from Madrid last summer after being deemed surplus to requirements at the Bernabeu. The Netherlands international has been a revelation for the London side in the Premier League and has scored ten goals in 21 league appearances.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday night, Van der Vaart will play against the Blancos in Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie, and ahead of his return to the Bernabeu has revealed that he misses Spain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very happy; like always,\u201d enthused the 28-year-old, according to Madrid\u2019s official website. \u201cIt&#8217;s been a while since I haven&#8217;t played here and sometimes I miss it, but I am very happy in London. What I miss most is the weather and the country because my mom is Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to play well but I don&#8217;t have any animosity towards Real Madrid. I want to win tomorrow and play well, but I don&#8217;t have any desire for revenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former Ajax star also believes that Madrid are the favourites in this tie and said: &#8220;We are happy to have made it this far. We are up against one of the best teams in the world. We have nothing to lose in this special tie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe haven&#8217;t played well in recent games, but this is a special match. We are having trouble scoring, but we have a great chance to get back on track in the Bernabeu.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Van der Vaart played for Madrid for two seasons between 2008 and 2010.<\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2c8da56895158_news.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/04\/04\/2426462\/tottenhams-rafael-van-der-vaart-sometimes-i-miss-playing-for\" title=\"Tottenham\u2019s Rafael van der Vaart: Sometimes I miss playing for Real Madrid\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tottenham\u2019s Rafael van der Vaart: Sometimes I miss playing for Real Madrid<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Subhankar Mondal 4 Apr 2011 21:46:00 Cristiano Ronaldo, Higuain, Van der Vaart, Real Madrid, Valencia (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Rafael van der Vaart has admitted that he &#8220;sometimes&#8221; misses playing for his former club Real Madrid . Van der Vaart joined Tottenham from Madrid last summer after being deemed surplus to requirements at the Bernabeu. The Netherlands international has been a revelation for the London side in the Premier League and has scored ten goals in 21 league appearances<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-367395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tottenham\u2019s Rafael van der Vaart: Sometimes I miss playing for Real Madrid - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/04\/tottenhams-rafael-van-der-vaart-sometimes-i-miss-playing-for-real-madrid\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Tottenham\u2019s Rafael van der Vaart: Sometimes I miss playing for Real Madrid - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Subhankar Mondal 4 Apr 2011 21:46:00 Cristiano Ronaldo, Higuain, Van der Vaart, Real Madrid, Valencia (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Rafael van der Vaart has admitted that he &quot;sometimes&quot; misses playing for his former club Real Madrid . 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