Barcelona –
Former Barcelona full-back Dani Alves gave Sergino Dest simple advice. The American player was asked to give Lionel Messi a lot.
Alves was a former Barcelona player who was quite important before. Defending the Spanish giants from 2008 to 2016, the Brazilian footballer contributed many trophies.
Alves contributed 23 trophies, including 6 LaLiga titles, 3 Champions Leagues, 3 European Super Cups, 3 Club World Cups, 4 Copa del Rey and 4 Spanish Super Cups.
Alves’ stats are also impressive. He made 21 goals and 101 assists for Barcelona, who indulged his team-mates in scoring goals – including Messi. Messi himself became the club’s all-time top scorer, with a record of 638 goals.
That’s what made him give advice to Dest, Barcelona’s new full-back this season. The young player who had just been brought in from Ajax Amsterdam gave lots of passes to Messi, the spearhead of Barcelona.
“If I have to give Dest advice, it’s very simple: pass the ball to Messi,” Alves told RAC 1.
“Sergino Dest has a lot of quality and a chance of being successful at Barcelona. But, I don’t like making comparisons. It happened when I was compared to Cafu, it doesn’t make sense,” he said.
Of the first 6 matches in Barcelona, Dest has not contributed anything. Dest is still adapting so far in Barcelona.
The 20-year-old player himself admitted that he idolized Alves. “Daniel Alves is my role model. I’ve watched a lot of his videos and I learned a lot by watching them on Youtube,” said Sergino Dest.
“Yes, I can be like Daniel Alves. I want to be like Alves. Always running. If I have to train more for that, I will,” he said.
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