FC Barcelona: Pedri and the comparison with Xavi and Iniesta

Winner of the Kopa Trophy at the start of the week, rewarding the best young player of the year, Pedri has taken on another dimension in just over 12 months. Winner of the Golden Boy a few weeks ago, in addition to becoming the darling of Barça, who extended him until 2026, the 19-year-old midfielder saw Xavi take the reins of the first team . This is probably good news for the Spaniard, often compared to his new coach, but also to Iniesta, another Blaugrana legend. In an interview with France Football, he returns to the profiles of these two models of the genre.

“I would like to have it all (laughs). But, if we had to start with Xavi, I would take his ability to move when he had the ball. It was impossible to take him. And then, he was always super well placed, profiled to receive the ball in the right way… It was too important in the conduct of the game. He always managed to manage to find the solution, until giving the impression of ‘be alone. For Inistea, it would be especially his quality on the one-two. He had this gift to come and play with a teammate, make things easy for him, moreover, by putting on a show. Me, when I see things that inspire me, I try to reproduce them. “