Turned at 19 into the fashionable player in Spainin one of those fevers that transcend the soccer and social plane, and that transports us to moments like those of Butragueño, Raúl, De la Peña, Guerrero or Canales, who aroused passions very young, Pedri makes his debut tonight at the age of 19 on one of the great stages of world football, the Bernabéu, with ambition: “Let’s go for it all”.
Out of action since the end of the summer due to a quadriceps injury in his left leg that threatened to get complicated, the Canarian has returned even more mature than he left. His first season in Primera was a roar. So much so that he ended up playing 75 games because no one wanted to take him away. Neither Koeman, nor Luis Enrique, nor Luis de la Fuente, who took him to the Games. Although Pedri insisted that the excess of games was not the cause of his injury at the beginning of the season, the truth is that he had arrived in Tokyo exhausted. “I even look older in the photos”, he even confessed to a trusted person. The break that was taken until January was a correct decision.
It has already been conveniently explained that Pedri was able to play for Madrid. In 2018, the snow ‘boycotted’ its tests in Valdebebas. He played for a while with the Cadet and another with the Juvenile; and he did not call anyone’s attention.
Who did see it before anyone else for the elite was Pepe Mel, a tremendous talent scout, who also had the consideration to warn two of the teams of his life, Madrid and Betis, that the boy was a pure talent. But the one who noticed him was Ramon Planes. The former technical secretary of Barça launched himself for his signing with the approval of José Mari Bakero and took a player with a special talent. Capable of knocking down two defenders in the area, but also remembering the times when he used to practice athletics to run with a gregarious spirit. Pedri Potter dreams of doing magic at the Bernabéu.