Early Life
Fer was born and raised in Zoetermeer, South Holland, the Netherlands. Fer is the first child of parents of Dutch Antillean descent. Fer's grandfather was a football player on Curaçao, while Fer's father, Lesley Fer, was a fanatic baseball player. Fer has one younger brother named Leegreg. Leegreg Fer is also a football player and is currently active for the Feyenoord-U17 team.
Fer is raised Catholic: "In Zoetermeer we went to church every day. God gave me my football talent. I thank him for that every day." On his right lower arm he has a tattoo of the Christian cross with the text "In God I trust".
Read more about this topic: Leroy Fer
Famous quotes containing the words early and/or life:
“[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“When a man’s life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men’s actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)