The son of the US military man who flies in Barcelona

This coming January will mark one year since a US army drone strike killed the powerful Iranian general

.

Iran went from the promise of revenge to the replica, firing a score of missiles against two US air bases in Iraqi territory.

It was January 8, 2020. A day later,

, who was in Qatar at the time preparing the second leg of the season with his previous team, Ajax, asked to return to Amsterdam immediately.

As a nationalized American, and faced with the danger of further reprisals, he was not comfortable with the situation in the Middle East.

A few days earlier, the United States national soccer team had already canceled their plans to train in the emirate.

Sergiño Dest knew where to ask for advice.

His father,

, of Surinamese origin but raised in New York, served in the United States Army.

He was stationed in Holland when he met Sergiño's mother, a Dutch, until he ended up establishing residence in Almere, a newly created city (its first buildings began to be built in 1976) 30 kilometers from Amsterdam and where the promising footballer was born.

Tradition of military children in the US national team

Dest's case is far from an anomaly.

In fact, he is the eleventh son of a US military man who has played for the US soccer team since 2008. He shares a story with the sporting director of his national team,

.

His mother was also Dutch.

His father was also a military man, in his case for three decades in the Air Force, where he was a sergeant.

And he was also born in the Netherlands, despite the fact that, when it came to playing football, as Sergiño Dest did in 2019, he refused to play for the Dutch national team to opt for the land of his father.

Stewart went on to play three World Cups with the United States (1994, 1998 and 2002).

Dest didn't get to know New York until she was 14 years old.

What difference does it make.

At Ajax in Amsterdam, when the footballer was approaching adolescence, there were technicians who believed they sensed a rebellious character where what there was was ambition.

His furious breakthrough into the first team piqued the curiosity of then-Netherlands coach

.

But it was too late.

Dest had long made the decision to defend the American flag, which he had already represented at the U-17 and U-20 World Cups.

"Its my desicion.

It's my life, "he claimed.

At Barcelona, ​​Koeman's confidence in Dest is total, no matter how much Sergi Roberto's absence due to injury has set him on the right-hand side.

His exhibition in Kiev, where he became the first American footballer to score a goal in Barcelona's 121-year history, began to prove Koeman right in his summer insistence on spending 21 million euros plus another five in variables for a player who had only played 38 games in the elite.

Barça classified for the eighth of the Champions League and only pending the fight for first place with Juventus, the Barça coach was able to rest

,

and

to face Ferencvaros in Budapest this Wednesday.

There where Dest will try to continue his flight.

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