Sebastien Francois Turenne Des Pres (born 11 November 1998) is an American soccer player who last played for

Michigan Stars FC Michigan Stars Football Club is an American professional soccer team based in the Metro Detroit area. The team currently competes in the National Independent Soccer Association (NISA). History The club was established circa 1998 as Windsor Spart ...

in the

National Independent Soccer Association The National Independent Soccer Association (NISA) is a professional men's soccer league in the United States. The league is in the third tier of American soccer and began play in 2019. NISA initially used a fall-to-spring season format with a ...

Club career

Des Pres joined the academy at

Real Salt Lake Real Salt Lake, often shortened to RSL, is an American professional soccer franchise based in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. The club competes as a member club of Major League Soccer (MLS) in the Western Conference. RSL began play in ...

in 2015, scoring two goals in 33 games in the 2015–16 season. In January 2017, he joined

Football League Two The English Football League Two (often referred to as League Two for short or Sky Bet League Two for sponsorship purposes, and known as the Football League Two from 2004 until 2016) is the third and lowest division of the English Football Le ...

side

Blackpool Blackpool is a seaside resort in Lancashire, England. Located on the northwest coast of England, it is the main settlement within the borough also called Blackpool. The town is by the Irish Sea, between the Ribble and Wyre rivers, and ...

on an 18-month contract. He made his debut for the Seasiders in an

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game against

Wycombe Wanderers Wycombe Wanderers Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the town of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. The team compete in League One, the third tier of the English football league system. They play their ho ...

on 10 January 2017. Des Pres joined

Fleetwood Town Fleetwood Town Football Club is an English professional association football club based in the town of Fleetwood, Lancashire. Established in 1997, the current Fleetwood Town F.C. is the fourth incarnation of the club; it was originally formed ...

on a 12-month contract in September 2017. Des Pres joined

USL Championship The USL Championship (USLC) is a professional men's soccer league in the United States that began its inaugural season in 2011. The USL is sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation (U.S. Soccer) as a Division II league since 2017, p ...

side

Orange County SC Orange County Soccer Club is an American soccer team based in the Orange County, California city of Irvine. Founded in 2010 as the Los Angeles Blues, the team currently plays in the second tier USL Championship. The team plays its home games ...

in December 2018, ahead of their 2019 season. In July 2020, Des Pres signed with

of the

ahead of the fall season.. He did not return for the spring 2021 season.

International career

Des Pres has been capped twice by the

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at under-19 level. In April 2017, he was called up to a training camp by the under-20 team ahead of the

2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup The 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup was the 21st edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup, the biennial international men's youth football championship contested by the under-20 national teams of the member associations of FIFA, since its inception in 1977 ...

. Des Pres is also eligible to play for

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* 1998 births Living people American expatriate soccer players American expatriate sportspeople in England American soccer players Men's association football midfielders Blackpool F.C. players Expatriate footballers in England Fleetwood Town F.C. players Orange County SC players Michigan Stars FC players People from Encinitas, California Real Salt Lake players Soccer players from California Sportspeople from San Diego County, California United States men's youth international soccer players National Independent Soccer Association players {{US-footy-midfielder-stub