Refused by Real Madrid, he shines in Barcelona “” “It hurt me, but it was a sign of destiny! That's how I arrived at my life club”

“I was disappointed that they rejected me at the sample I held in Madrid. You go there full of hope and they tell you that you are not good enough. I was a child and these things hurt me! But today that refusal remained a long way back, and I see it as a sign of destiny.

That one did not allow me to reach Barcelona, ​​the Club of my Life! “, Recalls Pedro Gonzalez Lopez, briefly.

Pedri, Flick's Lighthouse. As the light of the Barcelona's play in the

Probably the most constant of Flick's very good students is a mobile perpetuum this season. All the balls are looking for him and he asks for them. The whole game of inter -opponent inter -turning around him. He is the engine of the Catalan football machine.

It is very nice that the world compares me to Iniesta or Xavi, who, together with Busquets, were my idols when I was a child. But they won everything and, several times, wrote history. I still have a long way to go until I get what they were
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Pedri and the goal jewelry scored with a shot from the edge of the box, unpropiable for Thibaut Courtois / Photo: Imago

The second most used this season, after my colleague Joules Kunde, with 4,104 minutes played. The German coach tried to house him at Dortmund, because, in the first leg of the “quarters” of the league with Borussia, Barça had won 4-0. But it was necessary for the German to disturb him from rest, so as not to risk a remnom on Signal Iduna Park.

“The rifle in the Canary has returned. Pedri Potter, the magician who surprised everyone, debuting in the segundo of division with Las Palmas. The team that, unlike Real Madrid, believed in it,” as Gazzetta dello Sport notes.

52of matches ticked Pedri in all competitions this season for Barcelona, ​​with 6 goals and 7 assists

Barcelona took it with 5 million from Las Palmas in 2019!

The amazing ascension began in September 2019. And now, Pedri has reached the sixth season in La Liga! And it already has two trophies won, the Super Cup and the Spanish Cup. Plus two other accessible in the waiting horizon of the following month: Title and Champions League!

Barcelona realized the value of the diamond thrown by Madrid and took it in September 2020, for only 5 million euros (now is worth 120 million, according to Transfermarkt!). A huge bet. Won! In the summer of 2020, Pedri arrived at the Club of his dreams, but, theoretically, only a purchase for Barça B.

Pedri had a coach on Ronald Koeman in 56 matches in Barcelona, ​​scoring 4 goals and 6 assists / photo: Imago

The one who had the courage, but also the inspiration, to promote him from the third league is Ronald Koeman, debuting him on September 27, 20 minutes in a match with Villarreal (4-0), on Camp Nou, in which he replaced Countinho. His “explosion” was amazing. He hurriedly burned the stages and jumped directly to the U21 national, and in March 2021, he debuted at the seniors of the rage!

Pedri is the youngest Spanish at Euro. Olympic vice champion!

Pedri was the youngest Spanish who played at a euro! With Luís Enrique's selection he reached the lost semi -final in front of Italy. The ones from the Federation asked him to go to the Olympic Games.

And Pedri did not refuse, playing in an inhuman rate for a teenager who had barely celebrated his major. And he did not go on vacation at Tokyo at all, but returned with the silver medal!

The fans of Atletico Madrid rarely offered football. They got to their feet to applaud on Pedri (22 years), the midfielder of Barcelona.

In his first season in Barça, he checked 52 matches. Fantastic record for a beginner. Plus 20 parties at the level of national teams. 72 in total! And since then, Pedri will exceed at the end of the season on the course of the 200-occurrence barrier in the Blaugrana T-shirt!

Over 100 days on the bar after the breakdown at quadriceps

But Pedri was not a robot, built overnight, but a human being, with physical limits, which he challenged. And the firate body at that age has not resisted the terrible load and lack of rest. The mind pushed it to support the incredible pace, but the body said stop game!

The left quadriceps gave up: muscle break! Engrave. So a recoil followed. In season 2021-2022 with Barcelona, ​​only 22 matches played. Then, in the following, 35 and 34. He had reached the bottom of the career sinusoid. But he was neither the first, nor the last footballer who was coming.

195The parties has pedri in the Blaugrana T -shirt, scoring 26 goals and 20 decisove passes. In champions League only ticked one goal and six assist

Euro 2024 meant Pedri's rebirth. Although it was evolved only three parties as a holder, coming out in “quarters”, after an entrance of Toni Kroos (the rival from Madrid), and being absent at the last two stages of the route to the European title of Spain.

The phase in which Toni Kroos strikes him on his knees on Pedri

Hansi Flick: “I see no limits for Pedri's growth!”

With a good summer training, Pedri laid the foundations of “Remontade” this season, in which he was chosen 12 times the best player of the match in Laliga. “I do not see limits for its growth,” Hansi Flick admitted after the Sevilla triumph (3-2 with Real Madrid), in which Pedri contributed with the goal of opening the score in the final of the King Cup.

Gavi asked the golden ball for his colleague: “He deserves more than anyone. He is the best midfielder in the world and I am fortunate to play with him in the national team.”

“Pedri has qualities and executions that remind me of the way I was playing,” Andres Iniesta, another huge midfielder of Barcelona, ​​with whom the owner of the Blaugrana T -shirt with the number 8 is similar.

At 22, Pedri already has in the display case a title in Laliga, two cups of the King of Spain and a triumph at the European Championship. Now the Spanish midfielder dreams, and still justified, at Tripla, which Xavi and Iniesta succeeded. Twice!