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To say that he is the first American to play for the Barcelona genre suggests that he has grown, learned and evolved his game in the United States, which would be the way we would have all liked to see him. Dest is a Dutch boy who learned his game and evolved in Holland with a father who carries an American passport. Being Dutch myself, I have a tendency to be more critical of him in the way he plays than what would be a coming American child. here to play in Europe, as lucky as it is for us. All I know is that he will be the first “American” to have literally learned and experienced the game at the most complicated point more than any other “American” player. Although CP is fortunate to have gone to Dortmunt and now chelsea for its development, it will not have learned the top point of ”sophistication” of the game enacted through the taste of ajax and Barcelona play.
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