Sunday, March 7, 2021 at 10:50 PM

Jeremiah St. Juste was included in the pre-selection for the the Dutch squad for the first time on Sunday by national coach Frank de Boer. The 24-year-old defender of FSV Mainz 05 tells in conversation with ESPN that he was informed of his election in the pre-selection for the international matches against Turkey, Latvia and Gibraltar thanks to a text message from his grandmother.

St. Juste gets in the interview with ESPN that the question of how he found out that he is part of the pre-selection of the Dutch. “Actually when it was announced, I got a text message from my grandmother. ‘Top, top’, with the pre-selection of the Dutch national team. An app from my grandmother, she is always up to date. I was surprised, so I went to check it out on the internet and then I saw it myself. Grandma informed me, yes. ”

“Many congratulations have arrived, my phone is still busy. A lot of people know how hard I work and it is nice that it pays off in this way, that they keep an eye on me ”, the defender continues. The former National Junior international left Feyenoord in the summer of 2019 for Mainz, where he played 24 official games this season. St. Juste usually plays as a central defender for the low flyer in the Bundesliga.

“You hope that you will be followed,” agrees St. Juste when he is asked whether he expected the election in the pre-selection from the Dutch. “But yes, I was pleasantly surprised. How can you expect it if you have never been on the squad before? I work very hard and things have been going well with me personally at Mainz lately, so you hope so. But I was really pleasantly surprised. ”