Categories: Football

Confirmed: Pedri will take the 8

Pedri will be the new ‘8’ del FC Barcelona. The Barça club confirmed this Friday that the young midfielder will inherit the illustrious number from next season, after in the first two campaigns as a culé he had the number ’16’.

The choice of number ‘8’ of Pedri It was an open secret after the departure of Dani Alvesand even the canary launched his new website under the name www.pedrigonzalez8.com in a clear nod to his new number.

After the confirmation that he will wear the number ‘8’, Pedri joins a long list of illustrious names in the history of Barça who wore this number as William Love, Hristo Stoichkov, Albert Celades o Phillip Cocu and more recently it was used by Arthur Melo o Miralem Pjanic. However, the most prominent number ‘8’ was Andres Iniestathe great idol of Pedri.

Pedri, with the number 8 on the Barça shirt in the Canaletes store

FC Barcelona

To celebrate his change of number, Pedri He will be at the Barça Store in Canaletes this Friday, the 8th, from 10 am to 10:45 am, to sign autographs, take pictures with fans and debut his new number.

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