FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - Champions League - Group H - Ajax Amsterdam v Lille - Johan Cruijff Arena, Amsterdam, Netherlands - September 17, 2019 Ajax's Sergino Dest REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw/File Photo
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - U.S. international Sergino Dest has left Ajax Amsterdam’s training camp in Qatar and returned to the Netherlands over safety concerns as political tension in the region remained high, the club said on Thursday.
The decision of Dutch-born Dest follows a similar move by the U.S national team to cancel a planned training camp in Qatar following an American air strike at Baghdad airport last week that killed a top Iranian general and has caused unrest in the Middle East.
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