Pedri González has been one of the big stars of the FC Barcelona in the last two seasons. It landed in the summer of 2020 and very soon won a fixed place in the first team, showing a talent superlative that few times had seen before and that carried him to win prizes like the Golden Boy and the Trophy Kopa, in addition to turning into one of the key players of the selection of Spain of Luis Enrique, with hardly 19 years.
Part of the takeoff of Pedri in the Barça is responsibility of Ronald Koeman, the one who trusted he from the first trainings to the control. The Dutch technician, argued or no, found a 'jewel' and turned him into one of his pillars in the season 2020-2021, in which it won the Glass of Rey. In said course, the Canarian footballer played absolutely everything.
The Dutch, in any case, has stood out during the 'AK Coaches World' that it was he the one who avoided that Pedri went out in quality of loan in the summer that arrived. "The club wanted to yield to Pedri, but two trainings were sufficient to say that it had to remain ", remembered Koeman. It hit his decision and the rest is history: The midfield player has marvelled to all in two years in the elite.
"I did not know it"
The one of Zaandam recognised that, to the moment of the first trainings with the Barça, did not know who was Pedri, but remained surprised very soon: "When I arrived all spoke of Pedri but I did not know it. In the two first trainings understood that it would be a big player. The club thought in loaning it. Me opuse, knew who went to play", stood out the trainer.
Likewise, Koeman aimed that "I never thought in me same, always did the things for the Barça. At the end, in the world have people in favour and against", sentenced. The new seleccionador of Low Countries, in any case, kept to Pedri and promoted it so that it found his best version.