Top-level football brings fame and glitter with it.
Flattery, often excessive.
Money, and also people who are looking for that money.
Accompanying all this is a great question: What will be the emotional impact of this new reality on the protagonist?
And in those around him?
Pedri gonzalez
(Tegueste, November 25, 2002) has gone in just over a year from being a youth footballer from Las Palmas to being blessed by Leo Messi in a Barcelona that dreams of rebuilding himself on the boots of a teenage genius.
But he continues to his own, playing football as if the streets of Tegueste had continuity at the Camp Nou.
Also his parents, who have been visiting Pedri and his brother during the Christmas holidays in Barcelona and who in the next few days will return to the island of Tenerife to continue with their usual routine in the family business, Tasca Fernando.
Because dreams, Iniesta knows well, are also born behind the bar of a bar.
Fernando González. This is the name of Pedri's grandfather
, founder of the Peña Barcelonista de Tenerife-Tegueste.
In that municipality of 11,000 inhabitants, he got a guachinche.
That is to say, a humble Tenerife food house where local wine was served.
Fernando González. This is the name of Pedri's father
, current president of the rock.
It was he who arranged the bar, adorned it with wood and turned it into the tavern it is now.
He takes care of the room.
His wife,
María Rosario
, or Rosi, is the one who cooks after years following the advice of her mother-in-law and Pedri's grandmother,
Candelaria
.
Pedri's uncle and aunt also work in the restaurant.
The Stuffed Tasca Fernando (potato, bubango and onion stuffed with meat) is one of the specialties.
On Fridays he plays pout.
This will be the case when the pandemic allows the premises to reopen, closed due to restrictions.
There is no terrace to eat.
Fernando González. This is also the name of Pedri's brother
.
Perhaps he has been the one who has changed his routine the most.
He is only 20 years old.
Also good manners for football, although he ended up taking a FP cooking cycle.
It was a good career outing, at least before the pandemic washed away tourism.
He spent some time practicing in Germany, but the arrival of Pedri at Barcelona forced him to change his vital structures.
He is Pedri's guardian angel in Barcelona.
They live together.
They play
Play
and
teqball
, where they show off their ball skills on a curved table.
And cooks him.
Follow the advice of the Barça nutritionists and ensure that Pedri, who knows nothing about stoves but who loves to eat, maintains a balanced diet.
They are both very close.
I saw them being born and I have seen them grow ».
The one who speaks for EL MUNDO is
Óscar Ledesma
, a close friend of the family and secretary of the Barcelona club inaugurated by
Nicolau Casaus
in 1995. The historic Barcelona manager gave them a painting of
Albert Ferrer
, who had played on loan for Tenerife.
As a result of Pedri's furious irruption, both the rock and the tavern have become an attraction for onlookers.
“People come from other parts of the island just for that.
And if they know that Pedri is around here, they come over in case they see him, "explains Ledesma, who jokes:" Sometimes I mess with his father a bit.
Before, the tavern was full of family photographs, of references to the culture of Tegueste.
Now, almost all the photos are of Pedri.
And I say to him: 'You're setting up a museum!'
References to Barcelona are everywhere.
Pedri has only closed the circle.
«His grandfather was already well known for his love of Barça.
When Real Madrid won, white fans always came to see him at the venue.
And when Barcelona won, it was he who went in search of the others.
In fact, Pedri's relatives were known as 'the Catalans', because they were all Barça fans, ”continues Ledesma, who finds it easy to make a personal portrait of Pedri.
And that differs little or nothing from the impression he leaves when he appears before the media, the locker room or even the football field: «Because Pedri is like that.
Very calm.
And people appreciate him because he is also good-natured.
He may be a bit introverted when he enters a new group, but he will quickly gain confidence if you give him a foothold.
Before Christmas he spent a couple of days in Tegueste.
And you saw how he walked through the town with total normality.
"They told me I was crazy!"
«And they told me I was crazy!
How could I ever take a 16-year-old boy to the first team in Las Palmas! ”, Intervenes
Pepe Mel
, who is the one who made Pedri debut in professional football.
«And what I saw him is not taught, it is had.
He plays and makes the other ten play ", points out the coach, who stops at something that few notice, his aerobic capacity:" He told me that as a child he was in an athletic school.
He will not have developed that muscular corpulence that other footballers have in those positions.
But he's able to keep the same pace from start to finish. '
Nothing changes in that child who, when he watched games on television at the club, he always did so with the ball under his arm or glued to his sole.
The same one with which he gave Leo Messi a divine goal in San Mamés.
Nothing changes in his family either.
Ledesma ditch: «I jokingly say to his father: 'Now that your son is going to be a millionaire, you can retire.'
But both he and his mother are clear that this is Pedri's life.
That they will continue with the family business.
They will not live on their son.
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