{"id":35816,"date":"2025-11-28T00:38:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T00:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/shaqueel-van-persie-feyenoord-forward-handed-debut-by-dad-robin-van-persie\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T00:38:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T00:38:23","slug":"shaqueel-van-persie-feyenoord-forward-handed-debut-by-dad-robin-van-persie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/shaqueel-van-persie-feyenoord-forward-handed-debut-by-dad-robin-van-persie\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaqueel van Persie: Feyenoord forward handed debut by dad Robin van Persie"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Robin van Persie says his decision to hand son Shaqueel a senior debut in Feyenoord’s Europa League defeat by Celtic was made “as a coach” and not out of sentiment.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 19-year-old forward spent two seasons at Manchester City’s academy, before following in his father’s footsteps with a move to Feyenoord in 2017 and signing a first professional contract with the Dutch club in 2022.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to 2025 and Shaqueel was named in Feyenoord’s first-team squad for the first time in Sunday’s Eredivisie defeat by NEC Nijmegen.<\/p>\n

Four days later he made his senior debut, coming on in the 81st minute of Feyenoord’s Europa League loss to Celtic.<\/a><\/p>\n

“I made that call as a coach, not as a dad because we needed a goal,” said former Arsenal and Manchester United forward Robin afterwards.<\/p>\n

“Shaqueel is a player who can score a goal from all angles. That was the reason I brought him on.<\/p>\n

“From a father’s point of view, when your son makes his debut that is always a special moment. But I wasn’t that busy with enjoying that moment, I was doing my work like Shaqueel was.”<\/p>\n

The London-born teenager didn’t have chance to make an impact and had just one shot in Celtic’s box.<\/p>\n

He came on with the score at 2-1, with Martin O’Neill’s side scoring their third a minute after his introduction.<\/p>\n

“The way I see Shaqueel is as one of the players,” added Robin. “This is what we both agreed to a couple of years ago when we already worked together. Shaqueel was handling that really well, I am too in my opinion.<\/p>\n

“Later on when we are home of course we will have a nice moment, when we are proud of each other. I am proud of Shaqueel because, like every player who makes his debut, there is a whole process going on before he made his debut. He worked hard, deserved it and, for him, is a special moment.” <\/p>\n

Van Persie is not the first manager to give his son a debut as BBC Sport picks out some of the others, plus other father-son duos to have featured in the same team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Robin van Persie says his decision to hand son Shaqueel a senior debut in Feyenoord’s Europa League defeat by Celtic was made “as a coach” and not out of sentiment. The 19-year-old forward spent two seasons at Manchester City’s academy, before following in his father’s footsteps with a move to Feyenoord in 2017 and signing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35818,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35816\/revisions\/35818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}