Ruben Delgado explains that Pedri perfectly understood football at an early age.
He says the midfielder’s ability to look for the simple thing is a gift which not many other players possess.
“When Pedri was nine years old, he reminded me of Iniesta. I always say that the first time I saw him, I knew he had something special,” Pedri’s former youth coach Ruben Delgado told The Athletic.
Delgado explained what made Pedri so special back in 2011: “His way of playing — everything very simple but very important at the same time.
“He was not looking to nutmeg people or do lots of stepovers: just the simple thing and the right thing. He was just different: the way he saw football, understood the game, found spaces nobody else could, the maturity he had compared to his team-mates.
That’s why Delgado saw a bit on Iniesta in Pedri: “That is very difficult to find in the world of football but he does it. And it does remind you of Iniesta; looking for the simple thing. It’s a gift. Not very common in football.”
Pedri’s staggering progress at Barca has earned him more comparisons to Andres Iniesta. The 18-year-old has scored 2 goals and provided 1 assist in his first 19 games for the Catalan giants.
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