Pedro scored the second goal for Chelsea in their 4-1 win over Arsenal in the 2018-19 UEFA Cup final.
Since then, he has become the one with the most variety of trophies in the soccer world. The World Cup, the Europa League, the UEFA Super Cup, the Club World Cup, the UEFA Champions League, the UEFA Cup, all these top honors have ever been brought together in Pedro alone.
He was never the center of attention in the soccer world, and there were no attractive frills off the field. He didn't have the technical talent to be a superhero, he didn't have the physical attributes to be exceptional, he didn't bear God's favor, and he didn't get the world's favor.
It's hard to imagine the ordinary Pedro becoming a winner in the soccer world. He has the trophies that many superstars have been waiting for all their lives.
It's hard to believe that life is not fair, but soccer believes in rewarding one's efforts.
Pedro was born in the Canary Islands, the furthest away from the Spanish mainland, where Samuel and José settled after their marriage. The winds of the Atlantic Ocean blew out Pedro's bright, innocent smile, and honed his practical style of taking one step at a time.
From the frontier island to the cradle of the world's soccer training, La Masia, in the brutal competition to survive, and in the peak of the honor to adhere to the innocence.
From the age of 22 to Barcelona's first team, and now 32 years old in the English Stamford Bridge, all the gains are not the special favor of fate, but the result of the pursuit of self-struggle. Time has brought changes, but Pedro has always been the same teenager blown by the sea breeze, sunny smile, tireless running.
Ten years of wind and rain did not erode the teenager's gutsy beginnings, sharpened the soccer jungle sharp and incomparable Peyton Manning.
Normally, there is no wind and erratic traces, once the sheath is sharp and incomparable instant life.
Six Champions debut: two goals and two championships
La Masia 87 generation has long been synonymous with elite youth training, the general sense of the word does not include 87 years of age, Pedro, because the knife's peers are too colorful, Messi's pride of the world needless to say, the small French pique to create a high school age in the Premier League! The first time I saw this, it was a very good idea to go back to the old days and see what happened.
Even the younger Busquets and Bojan, are earlier than the knife debut. 22 years old before officially entered the first team, the knife in the same age is considered a relatively backward results in the repeaters, especially in the young players outstanding La Masia.
Pepe's late start was surprisingly smooth, and he was the only one to score in all six tournaments, while riding on Barcelona's unprecedented run of six titles in soccer history.
Near the end of the 2008-09 Champions League final, Barcelona's victory was finalized, and Guardiola took the Triple Crown in his first season in charge, and the new king of the soccer world, Lionel Messi, was about to emerge.
At this point there are not many people care about Barcelona's substitution, a strange face wearing a large jersey replaced Iniesta, who assisted the first goal with an injury. This unfamiliar face, completed the upgrade of the Barcelona Triple Crown to the Sixth Crown.
Before that year's Barcelona, Manchester United was also crowned Triple Crown in the 98-99 season, but lost in the European Super Cup afterward, after all, a decision on the champion of the tournament is too much chance. Strong as the dream of three Barcelona also suffered a crisis that year, for the team to lift the crisis is just in this summer officially promoted to the first team has the official number of Pedro.
The European Super Cup final opponent Galatasaray, solid as a golden soup of defense so that Barcelona attacked for a long time, the critical Pedro appeared, in the 80th minute from the left side of the penalty area with the ball and Lionel Messi to complete the cooperation, the loss of the body center of gravity in the case of the foot shot a fatal.
Since then, the soccer world has had the reputation of Peyton Manning, although before that, he was in the first round of the Spanish Super Cup, but not as valuable as the only goal of a game to determine the winner.
With the UEFA Super Cup in the bag, Barcelona have now won five trophies, and the Club World Cup is their final target.
This last title was the most difficult, and in the final with La Plata, Barcelona were still a goal down until the end of the 90th minute, when Pedro came to the rescue, pulling the team back from the brink with an aerial header from Pique in the penalty area.
With Lionel Messi's chest-beating goal in extra time, Barcelona finally took the final step in their quest for six titles. In the history of the club, Cruyff's Dream 1 and Rijkaard's Dream 2 have both failed to win this title. The unfulfilled dream of Dream 1 and Dream 2 was finally realized in Dream 3.
Since then, Pedro's career, from the trophy full of honor.
National team debut: World Cup semi-final final
Pedro just promoted to the first line, fortunate to ride on the windmill of the six champions, but the fierce competition of professional soccer, you can not rely on luck to fight the pressure of competition.
At the time of the Barcelona team, in the world of Messi's side, Pedro needs to compete with the domineering Ibe and still have the power of Henry's starting opportunity, younger than him, but earlier than the first team into the order of appearance of the Boyan also ranked in front of him.
The brutal pressure of competition and survival, but for the young Pedro provided an opportunity to develop.
With Messi, Xavi, and Iniesta's unrivaled ball control, Ibe, who was used to being the protagonist, was unwilling to be the green leaf, Henry, who was willing to transform, was too old to play, and Bojan, who was gifted, looked out of place.
Although Pedro's hard power is not dominant, he has a balanced left and right footed ability, no matter whether it is shooting or passing, there is no obvious disadvantage of the reverse foot, coupled with his unparalleled ability to run the ball, and thus can be perfectly suited to the team's left and right winger position.
Barcelona's special tactical system, Pedro in the name of the winger, to assume a similar defensive tasks of other wingbacks, but he did a diligent and hard work, the defense fell in place to make every effort to grab the backfield from the front, the attack for the ball teammates to the sideline to pull space, and in the tempo of the change in the speed of the percentage of the speed of the rush to the penalty area to cause a kill.
So Pedro was always given the chance to play in long tournaments, and he took the opportunity to prove himself further.
In the 2009-10 Champions League group stage, the key battle with Inter for the top spot in the group, Messi and Ibe were both absent due to injury, but Barcelona surprisingly took control of the situation, and it was he who waited for the opportunity to move when Harvey and Iniesta passed the ball, and then slash his way into the box to receive Alves's pass in the air and slam it into the goal for the team to lock up the top spot in the group.
Then the two teams met in the semifinals, where Barcelona was the loser, but Pedro was the highlight. The first round away to the San Siro, because the Icelandic volcano eruption Barcelona team can only take the bus to go, a long journey under the unfavorable situation, it is Pedro against the line for the team to pull out the first, although after the Inter reversal of the three goals to win.
The second round back to the Camp Nou, in order to keep the first round of the results of Inter to take extreme defensive position, Barcelona full field long attack can not erase the two goal deficit.
This battle is certainly a disappointment for the Barcelona team, and Pedro has completely consolidated his position in the Barcelona team through this battle. When the team needed to change the formation of the wild attack, Ibu was arranged to go off, Henry did not get a chance to play the whole game, and then Pedro played the whole game.
That season, as the league progressed, Pedro had gradually secured a starting position, and his goal in the second round of the Derby Nacional helped Barcelona directly shake off Real Madrid's tail, successfully defending the league title.
A typical Pedro goal, from catching the ball to scoring only three touches, the first run to catch the ball by the way wiped out the defenders, and then with a little bit of the ball on the precise shot, the angle is not the most tricky power is not the biggest, just good just right.
The club's outstanding performance also allowed Pedro to be selected for the Spanish national team's World Cup squad in South Africa. Fighting in the first round of the group lost, the Oxfordshire Army all the way to the hard way, the group out of the line to kill into the eight are timid.
With Paraguay's one-eighth final, Spain's situation is even more thrilling, the two teams fought to an hour and still did not rewrite the score, within a minute of the two sides have lost penalties. Pedro came on as a substitute in the 75th minute, and in the 80th minute he received a pass from Iniesta and fired a shot that bounced off the post, while Villa got the ball to make up the shot.
After Spain's unexpected loss to Switzerland in the first round of the group, manager Vicente del Bosque has been unsuccessful in debugging the starting lineup from Silva to Torres. In the final, the always solid and conservative Bosco made a bold decision to let Pedro, who had never made a start before, into the starting lineup.
Pedro was born to be a big game player, from club to country. He proved his debut at Barcelona with a six-title-winning goal, and his national team career used the World Cup semifinal and final as the stage for his debut debut. Pedro did his best to add his brick in time to the huge project of the Matildas to win the Copa del Rey.
At the celebrations in the Plaza de Madrid after Spain's victory, guest host Reina introduced Pedro, who had been sprinting and running all over the field, even in his sleep, vividly describing Pedro's characterization of the game.
The strongest trident: MVP cast the strongest Barcelona
Pedro between a year almost harvested all the highest honors, his career glory moments but has just begun.
After the World Cup in South Africa, Villa, the tournament's top scorer and the biggest contributor to Spain's victory, joined Barcelona, and has since formed a formidable MVP team with Messi and Pedro.
Villa's sharp shooting sense, Pedro's running without the ball, coupled with Messi's godlike ability, the trio's unpredictable position often kills people invisibly. Unprecedented front line with Ha Baibu unparalleled midfield combination, Barcelona really played out the feeling of artistic soccer.
2010-11 La Liga National Derby 5-0 victory over Real Madrid, MVP combination completely defeated the raging maniac Mourinho. Messi didn't score but was a dominant force in the team, Villa scored twice to show his killer nature, and Pedro used his signature run to put the opposition on the defensive.
Barcelona's third goal, Peyton Manning tripped in midfield and immediately got up, and in the blink of an eye has been extremely fast sprinting, noiselessly overtaking Marcelo, in the goal line to grab a point of Villa's pass to break the door, leaving behind the Brazilian froze in a trance.
That is the most prosperous period of Barcelona, but also the most youthful years of Peyton Manning. Barcelona to promote the art of soccer at the same time, but also in the three fronts go hand in hand, Pepe knife are in the key moment to make their own contribution.
Champions League semi-final and Real Madrid national derby second round, Peyton Manning received an assist from Xiaobai instantly killed the suspense of the war of the century, hovering on the offside line, he started from the left side of the natural transition to the middle of the ball, from the comfort of the foot so that Kasai can not do anything.
Wembley Stadium and Manchester United's final, the game to make Ferguson's fingers trembling the world famous game, to break the deadlock is again Peyton Manning.
Xavi's afterthought in the crowd was a back-footed pass to Pedro in the corner, which was almost theoretically the only route to the ball. After receiving the ball, Pedro had only the briefest of chances to capitalize on, with Vidic flying in and Van der Sar blocking, and calmly pushed it into the near corner with a slight gap.
Although there is no repeat of the Six Champions miracle, the 2010-11 season of Barcelona is a more glorious presence in the history of soccer, and to this day has been the existence of a metamorphosis into an artistic specimen.
In fact, the gap between them and the six champions is just a hair's breadth away. In the final of the Copa del Rey and the old rivals' tussle, facing the stranglehold of Real Madrid's midfield and backfield, Lionel Messi launched an incredible streak of five passes near the center line to distribute the ball among the people in the cracks, and the Peytron didn't stop the ball from being pushed straight to the goal, which was unfortunately ruled out because of a hair's breadth away from the goal for being offside.
If it had worked, it would have been Pedro and Messi's best direct play, a goal that encompassed the essence of Maradona's one-two punch of England's entire defense and his assist on Caniggia's miraculous pass.
The regret in this incompleteness extends to Pedro's departure from the Camp Nou a few years later. Pedro's contribution to Barcelona's goal tally was stuck at 99 goals, with the 100th perfect round missing that one monumental goal.
There is no absolute fulfillment in the world, and the handicaps always begin to appear at the time of the most fullness.
The real glory of MVP only stayed for one season, and in the summer of 2011, with the joining of Faye and Alexis Sanchez, Villa and Pedro both lost their positions in the team. The lead-up to the arrival of Faye and Sanchez was wonderful, with both scoring in the first leg of the national derby. At the same time, Villa's season ended with a serious injury in the Club World Cup, and Pedro's condition was also affected by minor injuries.
MVP combination was dismantled, Barcelona also stopped the glory of the dream three. Specifically, there is no one in the key moment to come forward for Messi to share the burden of scoring. The most important Champions League semi-final two rounds of the season, Pedro can only sit on the bench for the whole game.
Guardiola gave second-stringer Cuenca Tello a chance, and also left Pedro, who has done countless battles for him, out in the cold. Guardiola announced his departure after the season after Chelsea were eliminated from the Champions League, and his farewell match in the Copa del Rey final before he left was a send-off for Pedro.
2012 European Cup, Bosque proposed conservative method to let the small law Torres rotation in the front line, no position Pedro in the most difficult semi-final substitute on the field revitalized the whole team's attack. Pedro's strength so that he can not every time out of the ordinary, but he has never been in the team indiscriminately, he is a life winner but never lie to win.
The team is still in turmoil and steadily moving forward
After the departure of Pep Guardiola, Villa recovered from his injury, the MVP combination was almost disbanded, but the most critical moment still rely on them to save the day.
The second round of the Champions League quarter-finals, the first round of 0-2 defeat Barcelona had no way back, MVP combination back to the lake, Barcelona played the best game in the post-Guadiola era, the Peyton Manning familiar uptake of the run for Messi to open the space of the shot, Villa accurately pushed the shot to lock the game.
In the quarter-final second round with Paris, facing elimination, it was the MVP trio again, with Messi driving the ball, Villa bridging the gap to the ball, and Pedro finishing the final blow.
The MVPs pushed Barcelona forward, but Messi's early return to action left him injured for the semifinal against Bayern, and the injury quickly mounted. Despite the massive defeat, Daber was a fierce, hard-working player, and he and Iniesta were two of Barcelona's best performers.
After the team's defeat and the serious illness of manager Vilanova, Barcelona then experienced the most chaotic 1314 season after the Dream 3. Pedro took over the No. 7 jersey after Villa's departure, and Neymar's arrival further squeezed him out of playing time, but under these circumstances Pedro put up some of the best numbers of his career. He is not just a star in the stars, but also a star in the gloom.
Spain's national team also ushered in a bottleneck after the glory, Pedro in the same period also became the national team's role, he is the best scorer in Brazil's World Cup qualifiers, but also in the battle with France's only goal, to help the team back to the group first to avoid the dilemma of the defending champions to play the play-offs.
Pedro has always been the one who works hard, but also the one who can't change things on his own. In the overall cliff-like decline, the individual play of Pedro did not help, he and his Barcelona teammates in the Camp Nou by Atletico Madrid hard to snatch the league title, in the World Cup in Brazil suffered the defending champions of the group out of the shame.
The lost man next to MSN
Returning to the club after the World Cup in Brazil, a more mature Pedro added more worries.
Despite the departure of his rival in the same position, Francois Sanchez, the addition of Luis Suarez meant that Pedro was destined to be marginalized. Sure enough, Suarez has just come back from suspension to squeeze Pepe to the bench. the MSN's killing power exceeds that of the previous MVP, but the sharpest blade of the sword is also a hidden danger to his own safety.
Pedro's great achievements but still humble, Neymar has not yet built a career on the expansion of complacency, the league was replaced by the field openly on the manager Enrique made disrespectful action, after the trouble in fact, as early as at the beginning of the buried hidden dangers.
MSN will never be rotated, Pedro can only find playing time in the cracks. Even so, even if Pedro had to play as a wingback, he didn't complain, and even when he needed to score a goal, it was the team's interest that came first, and his selfless assist for Suarez in the half-solo moved the latter to tears.
2014-15 UEFA Champions League final until the end, Peyton Manning only got the opportunity to replace the small injury Suarez on the field, the striker's instinct is to shoot he chose to pass the ball in the most critical, assisted to a better position Neymar.
Another treble for Barcelona, and Pedro did what he could to make his contribution, even if it was minimal to negligible.
Xavi had been certain to leave long before the start of the season, and the Champions League title gave the aging captain a lot of credit. But Pedro is different, he is still young, only 28 years old, he is hesitant about his future, he is hesitant to leave, even if the La Masia graduate's loyalty to Barcelona can be seen in the sun and the moon.
Pedro's last league goal at Barcelona was a hook in the penalty area, an honor that the alien has sought for his entire career, but Pedro didn't have the heart to celebrate.
He avoided the MSN trio celebrating around him after the goal, and ran slowly and grimly into the crowd, encouraging Alexandre Vidal, who was not on the roster. One of them is an old man, the other is a newcomer, both are Barcelona's lost men.
Once upon a time, waving his arms and flying in celebration was the signature move of Pepe, and the smile under his beady eyes was his signature endorsement.
It was probably the European Super Cup final that really made Pepe decide to leave, because the long summer window before that didn't make him decide to leave. Neymar's injury didn't even get him a start, and Pedro really needs to say goodbye to Barcelona, and he needs to play enough to fight for inclusion in the Euro 2016 squad.
Pedro still built a career for Barcelona before he left , the European Super Cup final Barcelona 4-1 lead was tied 4-4 almost reversed, extra time Pedro came out to save the team for the last time. Messi's free kick after two consecutive shots on goal, the penalty area of the Peyton Manning reacted smartly to make up the shot.
The podium as a goal scorer Peytzel, but alone on the side left a lonely figure. Teammates are celebrating the championship, and he is already sad for the farewell.
Ninety-nine goals, meaning that the knife in the Barcelona love long, but ultimately can not stay in the Camp Nou for a long time.
Supplementary farewell
Pepe knife lightning to join Chelsea, invited him to Barcelona's wrongdoer Jose Mourinho, the time is too short to say goodbye, and even after playing the Blues debut show cut Mei open two degrees before returning to Camp Nou to open the conference. All of his Barcelona teammates were there, along with his and Messi's respective wives and children.
He's not Messi's closest friend, nor his biggest teammate, but he's been the best third of Messi's side.
In the turn of four years, Pepe has had his ups and downs with Chelsea. More talented than him are gone, but he relied on his own as always down to earth to stay.
Barcelona was reversed by Liverpool, Alba single knife dare not shoot, Messi will remember the knife will still be how good.
When his peers are more and more greasy, Pepe is still smiling and running like a young man. His smile is still as bright, his bouncing and running so hard.
The fairy tale will only be youthful less than, if the reality of someone can do to return is still a teenager, his name must be Pei Dao.
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