A year of Pedri with Spain: the silent leader and family values

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The first time that

saw

play , he did it through the application used by elite coaches (at that time it would surely be Mediacoach, a technology developed, among others, by

, owned by LaLiga and that the body that president

removed from the Federation when Moreno took over the selection in March 2019).

Luis Enrique had been told about a small boy who had an anomalous ability to play in small spaces, with extraordinary peripheral vision and very well gifted technically.

It was 2018, long before the boy's debut in the Second Division, which took place in August 2019 at the hands of

.

"In that application we saw the cuts of his participation in some games and we already saw that doing what he did at that age and in that category meant that he had something special," Luis Enrique said on Monday.

Pedri was still playing in the Las Palmas subsidiary and was then 16 years old.

He didn't lose track of him.

Pedri signed for Barça and began playing in September 2020. Luis Enrique, already in the elite, waited a few more months, but in March of last year, 2021, specifically on the 25th, he made his debut against Greece and from then until here everything It has passed very quickly.

He has become, much to his chagrin, the leader on the field of a team that believes it has the right to dream of a world championship.

Symbolically, in this concentration he has chosen the number 10, with what that number means in the history of football.

"He was free.

In the European Championship I wore the 26, but that can no longer be taken, so I took the 10 », he explained in the Riazor press room, where this Tuesday the young Spain of Luis Enrique faces Iceland.

"Everything has happened very quickly"

Leader much to his regret, it should be emphasized, because he also explains it.

"I don't have the virtue of being the leader of anything.

I think the key is that in the group we are all united, "he said, while, yes, he, like everyone who looks at how his life has changed in these few months, also gives him vertigo.

“Everything has happened very quickly.

Two years ago he played for Las Palmas and now for the national team and for Barça.

Sometimes I get home, I look back, I reflect, and I see that it's really crazy », he says in a new sample of how well furnished the kid's head is.

Something that also highlights his technician here.

«He has to improve in everything, but with that ability and that talent that he has to attack and defend, he will do it.

Besides, he has the right mentality, because he is surrounded, I know, by a great family,

that has instilled in him some very important values.

It is very difficult for you to have a son with this sporting level and make him have the same level, fantastic, personally, "says Luis Enrique.

And he confirms it himself.

«I do not test the tranquility that I have.

My family always helps me keep my feet on the ground, they have prepared me to face everything that has come", he resolved at the press conference prior to tonight's clash, where Luis Enrique will surely leave him for the final minutes, Well, the Asturian's intention is that all those called in this call play.

only 19 games

Whether he likes it or not, Pedri is the leader of a group that has also missed him in the first part of the year.

The Canarian, who is always one of the players who does the most kilometers during matches,

, normal because he has been injured throughout the first part of the year (from August to January), probably as a result of the savagery that he had to face last year, where he finished with 68 games and more than 4,400 minutes between the League, Champions, Cup, qualifying matches, European Championship and Olympic Games.

In Riazor, in 2009, in a thrashing of Belgium (5-0) on the way to the World Cup in South Africa, it was where

and

together as starters for the first time

, throwing

to the left and putting to

as center forward.

Here, in Riazor, then, it can be said that the team that later became world champion germinated.

That day

, who began a year full of injuries, the man with whom everyone compares Pedri, including Xavi, his coach.

«For me it is a pride that they compare me with my idol, but I don't think I can reach what he did.

I try, and it serves as motivation », he said, who is aware of the weight he has,« and I carry it normally, without more ».

Well that.

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