Meet Pedri Gonzalez: The Teenage Sensation At Barcelona

Few will argue the fact that Pedri Gonzalez is one of the hottest teenage prospect in European football right now. The 2020/21 season was the breakout season for a lot of football superstars and one of them goes by the name Pedri.

Pedro Gonzalez popularly nicknamed "Pedri" is a Spanish born professional footballer who plays for the first team of Spanish giants Barcelona and also for the Spanish national team.

He plays as an attacking central midfielder and in less than two seasons in the spotlight, he has grabbed the headlines on numerous occasions for his astute passing, excellent technical skills, ball control, awareness, and vision as well as defence splitting dribbles.

He was born in Tegueste, Tenerife in Spain on the 25th of November, 2002. He began his footballing career in the UD Tegueste youth academy, the club he joined as a then six year old in 2008, before moving to Juventud Laguna in 2015, after three years here, he then went to UD Las Palmas, at the age of sixteen, he was promoted to the first team after a series of fantastic performances in the youth team.

Pedri then signed a 4-year contract for Las Palmas which happened to be his very first professional contract in 2018. He would go on to score his very first goal in the same month he was promoted.

Exactly a year later, he caught the eye of Barcelona's scouts and an agreement of €5 million was reached with his parent club. Miguel Angel Ramirez, President of UD Las Palmas, would go on to publicly state that Pedri's transfer fees rose to €11 million including bonuses and agent's fees.

After what is turning out to be a bargain transfer for Barcelona, he was loaned back to Las Palmas for the 2019/20 season and returned from loan in the summer of 2020.

He is 1.74 metres tall and his weight currently stands at 60kg, he wears the number 16 shirt for barcelona and the number 26 for the Spanish national team. He receives £32,000 per week as wages and his current transfer fees according to www.transfermarket.com stands at €80 million.

Pedri's man of the match accolades, trophies, and individual awards.

He has racked up various man of the match performances since then, one of which came for Spain in the Euro 2020 semi-final tie against Italy. Across the whole ninety minutes in this game Pedri didn't even misplace a single pass, which saw him earn comparisons to Barcelona legends Andres Iniesta, Xavi and even Lionel Messi.

Although Spain couldn't go on to the finals, he proved his class and talents against a well drilled, determined and experienced Italian side, because of this and other impressive performances, he was named the best young player of the tournament and made the Euros best XI.

Pedri was part of the Spanish Copa del Rey winning team for barcelona in a 4 nil final trashing of Athletic Bilbao. He was also part of the silver medal winning team for spain in the 2020 Olympics and also the best XI too. What a player!!!

2021 was Pedri's year as he won the Golden boy award that was given out by Tuttosport and also the Kopa trophy at the ballon d'or ceremony in France.

He has since continued to play sensational football under new manager Xavi Hernandez. He performed an exquisite piece of skill in his last match as he dribbled the ball under the legs of an innocent Athletic Bilbao player. Brilliance!!.💪💪.

TOPIC: PEDRI GONZALEZ
WRITER: MICHAELBCH
DATE: MARCH 5TH, 2022.
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