Arsenal Pumpkins to Bergkamp's Son

Arsenal have decided not to hire Mitchel Bergkamp, ​​son of the historic gunner forward Dennis Bergkamp, after finishing a test week at the London club. Last October the son of the Dutch forward, who plays as a midfielder, he was training with Steve Bould's under-23 team in London Colney after receiving an invitation. Mitchel arrived after having resigned with his previous team: Almere City from the Dutch second division. In this club, he had developed his career in the lower categories.

Mitchel Bergkamp, ​​who grew up in London but left England 14 years ago, has always shown his appreciation and desire to play for the Gunner team., but at the moment it cannot be. “My father also played for Inter and Ajax, two wonderful clubs, but at Arsenal he feels like home,” he said during an interview with ELF Voetbal last year.

In addition, despite having been at the inauguration of Arsenal's Emirates Stadium with his father, Mitchel Bergkamp shows his special relationship with the former Gunner team field: Highbury. “If I choose Emirates or Highbury? I would have preferred to play at Highbury. There are the memories of everything my father has done for the club, “he said in the same interview.

While Mitchel Bergkamp will have to seize another opportunity away from Arsenal, another young man with an illustrious name at the London club, Van Persie, begins to dazzle in the Netherlands. Shaqueel Van Persie is standing out in the lower categories of Feyenoord acting from the left wing, after going through the lower categories of United and Fenerbahce. This season at just 14 years old, he is one of those called to shine in the youth team of the Netherlands of which his father is coach, after retiring in 2019.