Samuel Oladipupo Essoodee
Rafael Van Der Vaart is edging close to making professional darts debut.
The 36-year-old is ready to hang his boots after a series of injuries hampered his career at Danish League side Esbjerg fB.
The Dutch man has entered for the BDO Denmark Open and Denmark Masters early next month Former Real Madrid midfielder Rafael Van Der Vaart is reportedly close to making his professional Darts debut.
The former Tottenham Hotspur star is now ready to exchange his football boots for a set of ‘arrows’ and begin a new phase of his career doing a different sport entirely from football.
According to ‘Sport Bible’, the history of Darts is not complete without the mention of Dutch greats like Michael van Gerwen and Raymond van Barneveld along with a smorgasbord of others from Netherlands.
The publication reports that Van Gerwen is considered as the most talented player to have played the sport by some quarters. Despite the feat achieved by 16 time world champion Phil Taylor, and his continued success shows no sign of letting up.