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A new star is born to rebuild the empire left behind by a legend
Without a doubt, there is a footballer who has amazed the world and not because of his goals, but because of his magic on the field, and that is that perhaps other young players like Mbappé or Haaland score more goals and are more decisive when it comes to moving the scoreboard, or another, such as Gianluigi Donnarumma or De Ligt are more crucial when it comes to taking care of their own goal, but none of them is touched by the magic wand by which Pedro González López's feet have been bewitched, better known as Pedri, a season ago, Ansu Fati was the heir to Lionel Messi, even, the young man is currently in charge of carrying the 10 of FC Barcelona that Messi left after more than 15 years carrying it on his back, despite "carrying "It is a very big word and it is that one of the best promises of FC Barcelona, has lived more inside the operating theater than on the field of play, Ansu Fati's serious injuries have prevented him from displaying all the potential he has been showing, then ronald koe man started betting on other youngsters and that's where Pedri appeared, who from the moment he arrived, has left us dazzled with his quality and not for nothing is he justly deserving of the Golden Boy he recently won.
But well, who is Pedri? Where did the one who is now the greatest promise of Spanish football come from? Well, Pedri started in the lower categories of the U.D. Tegueste, a club from the municipality of Tegueste, the midfielder's hometown, in 2015, became part of the ranks of Juventus Laguna and in 2018, after being rejected by Real Madrid, he ended up captured by U.D. Las Palmas who incorporated him into their youth team, for the 2019-2020 season, Pedri, obtained his first professional record and Las Palmas incorporated him into the first team preseason, managing to stand out enormously in it and earning his place in the squad with the number 28 on the back, making his debut on the first day of the league at just 16 years of age, in the end, he would become the UD player Las Palmas youngest to score. Pedri signed a great campaign and on September 2, 2019, FC Barcelona had already agreed a transfer with UD Las Palmas from July 1, 2020, so Pedri and his great campaign already knew that they would end up at FC Barcelona , playing in the preseason against Nástic de Tarragona, Pedri was immediately liked by coach Ronald Koeman and began to have more and more opportunities, in addition to winning the Copa del Rey with the Catalans, achieving his first title as a Barça player, in a season that had him playing the European Championship with Spain, where he reached the semi-finals and also the final of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, where he would lose the final against Dani Alves's Brazil, in addition to the aforementioned Golden Boy award, Pedri also received in Monaco the Kopa Trophy, which is awarded by the magazine in charge of the Ballon d'Or, France Football, to the best soccer player under 21 on the planet.
But it is in the current season where all of Pedri's magic has begun to leave locals and strangers speechless, we already knew that he had great resistance and he did not have the tendency to injure himself that in many young footballers today, but the The quality of Pedri's feet had not yet been fully exploited, in fact, it has not yet been and with Koeman and that mediocre game that the Dutchman favored, it was more complicated, after the arrival of Xavi, Pedri's explosion has been absolute and has become one of the great leaders of the now called "Xavineta" (nickname given to FC Barcelona under the mandate of its legend, Xavi Hernández) and the comparisons of course have not been long in coming, the fans culé, says he has found the new Andrés Iniesta, while the world press compares him to Zinedine Zidane, something that has not been liked at all in the Madrid environment that must still feel bad for having let such a jewel of football go.
Of course Pedri's football is reminiscent of that of Don Andrés Iniesta and why not? The canary cannot be taken from the ball, it is glued to his feet and he has an ability to get out of complicated situations with such great calm that it seems that he sees the future, precisely that is what most resembles the mythical Andrés Iniesta, they both make football look easy, watching Pedri's plays, we notice that it is not necessary to be the most skilled with the ball to protect him, only with good control of both legs and good body positioning, Pedri manages to evade the rivals keeping the ball away from them, in terms of his vision of the game, he is undoubtedly a prodigy, with an ability to make tremendous passes between the lines, perfectly reading the movement of his teammates and also understanding the positioning of the rival lines, being able to break them with a single pass, he is not the strongest, nor the tallest, but Pedri's unbalancing is not in his physique, if not, in his mind.
