In this era of own names and referents of short pants and football boots, none dazzled more in Second Division, for the absolutely unexpected, that Pedri González. At just 16 years old he signed his first professional contract, and several months before turning 17 (he was born on November 25, 2002), in unison with that rubric that should have been accompanied for that of his parents, things of the Minority of age, had been transferred to Barcelona. Beyond the round of business for both clubs, the bomb I was about to explode. Go if it did.
Of Pedri it is said that Sesé Rivero, responsible for the quarry of Tenerife, from where the kid hails (Tegueste), what discarded for his alleged physical weakness. If there was, his talent far exceeded it. They can give good faith in it Laguna Youth, from where he was rescued by the Training and Recruitment Department of the Las Palmas Sports Union. Today's smiles in Barcelona are the wailing of Tenerife and Real Madrid. The indecisions, in this case, were very expensive.
With the Gran Canaria entity just finished your second season, and it was barely enough one as a youth to break down the door of the first team. If anything, he collapsed it. It was, of course, the invisible hero. At the insistence of the former footballer Ángel López, which in a few weeks will begin to exercise as Pepe Mel's second coach After having a blast at the Las Palmas quarry, the latter invited him one day to to train with the professional squad, one that stumbled in Second, wandering with more pain than glory, in any way imploring to end a maddening season. A day that was forever.
Did not debut at academic year 2018/2019, but his talent it was more than evident that, in the one that just finished, it would already have square in its own right in the Las Palmas first team. He was just a boy of just 16 in a world of old, already part of an ecosystem that devours without mercy if you show the greatest symptom of weakness.
Let's look back. July 2019 dawn and Pedri stood in the newly opened Sport City without even knowing what to do. Between being a guest and being one more half an abyss. Everything was new, unknown, dreams that come true. I had to jump into the void and doubts multiplied to one head so well furnished as a young man. His desire, attitude and fitness as a perfect parachute. “The first day I was shitI didn't even know what to do when I entered the locker room, I didn't even know whether to greet people. I was so ashamed, first of all I am like this “, came to reveal the footballer himself. Lost in the professional ocean, very soon came to his rescue. “I sat down and the first one wine was Aythami Artiles to tell me that if I needed anything, I would talk to him. It has helped me a lot” revealed Pedri about the captain of Las Palmas, also a youth squad like him.
In any case, the shame he left her in the dressing room. “Fuck with the baby,” said the oldest. From the first training a cyclone washed away the new training grass of Las Palmas. In the first friendlies he played soccer for montera and nobody could beat him. His talent amazed, his impudence and excellence in decision making. Both training and playing. A true blackbird, Barca in this case.
Its quality spoke for him. So much so, that he was the footballer of the first team that played the most games, and that he went to U17 World Cup, during the season just ended. All of them while he slept every day in the Yellow House, the players' residence that the club has for kids from outside Gran Canaria. Many years ago its grandmother founded a Peña del Barça in its Tegueste Natal, where he had to migrate in times of confinement. Secluded at home, with the play and the ball. Kid stuff. But go with the boy.
Acts Barça and Pedri he for each other, To who compare with Iniesta now it will be changed where until recently this national hero did it. Pedri dreamed of seeing Messi train and in a few days you can pass the ball and work out with him. That they share a team remains to be seen. Maybe the words won't come out either, He forgets until how to greet the greatest legend that gave birth to football and to several of the best soccer players in the world, but his talent will continue to speak for him. Their common languageThe one with the ball will do the rest.