If Jorge Valdano referred to Romário as a cartoon player and Wenger told Messi as a PlayStation footballer, Pedri is already a story player, the protagonist of a children’s book that will go on sale next week in which his best friend is, how could it be otherwise, a ball and in which the title, Pedri and the legend of gold boots (Platform), evokes directly to any footballer’s dream of winning the Golden Ball one day.
It has been thanks to the confidence of Hansi Flick and a completely renewed physique that Pedri has achieved the desired continuity, accumulates more than 3,000 minutes this season, a figure that had not added in the last three. Installed at the best moment of his career, the canary dreams without limits. It is even allowed to invite Barcelona to think about a new triplet and to wish for a Champions League final against Real Madrid. “I would sign a final against Madrid. It would be an indication that we reached the final. And we must not be afraid of any rival,” he said, without complexes. In addition, he confessed that, in the Blaugrana costumes, “we are many children” and that, therefore, they dream of winning the Champions League and many other titles. “Why not dreaming of the triplet,” he launched.
With only 22 years, Pedri is today a footballer whom his early talent has become a veteran ahead of time. A player who overflows slowly and runs without putting a speed face, but still retains a monacal youth gesture, conveniently modernized to be a mass idol. “It is one of the moments that I am enjoying the most. I am having continuity and trust. In addition, I have found a position in which I am more comfortable, closer to the ball, eight, receiving at the base.” Again, as in the story, his relationship with the ball is capital for his happiness. “When I play the ball more, I feel more comfortable inside the game,” he explained.
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At the beginning of the season, a genetic study discovered that Pedri does not need to dosing, that he feels more rested when he plays. A paradox that seems to be another of the great secrets of its performance. “Even if it seems weird, I always like playing than stopping. When I stop, my body feels less rested,” he explained. The Barça player who runs the most and, by far, in each game says. Against Benfica, in the Champions, it reached 13.2 km.
Despite enjoying this superpowerthe Canarian claimed more rest, after the Federation has inserted the postponed party against Osasuna this Thursday. “Football loses the level of intensity and play with so many games. It is difficult to recover with less than 72 hours,” and warned that the fan “pays an entrance to see the greatest possible show.”
“I prefer to keep the title triplet,” he resolved when asked by himself, together with Lamine Yamal and Raphinha, they could emulate Messi, Xavi and Iniesta on the golden ball podium. “If you arrive, we have won many collective titles and prefer that and that the rest is a consequence of what won.” And he praised Yamal once again, a footballer with whom he will compete for many individual awards throughout his career. “He is a player who is a show, how he dribble and marks goals. It makes the difference a lot. It is as if it did not cost you goals. I hope it will continue to have fun inside the field, because it will be better, sure.”
“I have found a position in which I am more comfortable, closer to the ball.”
Pedri grew up walls with the banana trees where his mother worked in a fertile land, not only in bananas, but in talent to isolate a ball of the rivals (also remember Valerón and David Silva). From his island, it is also natural to Pedro, Pedrito, intense player and with a special relationship with the goal that convinced Guardiola and continues to porphy in Italy. All of them, also Pedri, have been a flag of the modest player who shines among the colossi. But it is that of Tegueste who has inaugurated a new dimension to have consecrated as a leader in Barça and in the National Team with only 22 years. “Hopefully the next book can hold on the Golden Ball. To dream, you can dream of everything,” he claimed.
Iñigo Martínez already works with the group at Barça
After five days of rest for the team of selections, Barça returned yesterday to work in the sports city. Hansi Flick began preparing the 72 -hour game against Osasuna, postponed by the death of Dr. Miñarro and that the RFEF set for Thursday. At the moment, the German coach had eleven players from the first team: the seven that were not summoned (Szczesny, Peña, Eric Garcia, Balde, Gavi, Pau Víctor and Ansu Fati) plus the three players who were released by the Spanish Sub-21, Gerard Martín, Fermín and Pablo Torre. They were joined by Iñigo Martínez. The defense was low with Spain for an internal parameniscitis in the right knee that was detected after Atlético-Barça of March 16. Today, Flick will recover the internationals of Spain, De Jong Ya Koundé, who played the quarterfinals of the Nations League. For his part, Lewandowski began as substitute Poland-Malta yesterday. The only ones who will not arrive on time for the game are Raphinha and Araújo, who still have another South American classification party.
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