Profile Pedro Rodríguez

Personal information

Full name : Pedro Eliezer Rodríguez Ledesma
Date of birth : 28 July 1987
Place of birth : Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Height : 1.69 m (5 ft 6 1⁄2 in)
Playing position : Forward / Winger
Current club : Barcelona
Number : 17
Youth career :
2003–2004 San Isidro
2004–2007 Barcelona
Senior career:
2007–2009 Barcelona B
2008– Barcelona
National team :
2008 Spain U21
2010– Spain

Club career
Early years

Born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Pedro united FC Barcelona's youth procedure at the age of 17, having came from restricted boundary disc storage invention San Isidro.

Barcelona Fc

Pedro was a key competitor for Barça's retain assembly, as it realised endorsement from Tercera División, establishing 37 appearances and counting seven goals. On 12 January 2008, he made his debuts for the first assembly, playing one minute in a 4–0 household win in resistance to Real Murcia, but would only amass seven more in his first two times of the year combined.

Pedro was a part of the first team's 2008–09 pre-season, and presented early agree, counting in resistance to Hibernian and the New York Red Bulls respectively. On August 13, he commenced – afterwards being switched by Yaya Touré – in a 4–0 win in resistance to Polish boundary Wisła Kraków, for the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round.[5] His first correspond on the gathering stage of that struggle was on 16 September, when he returned Thierry Henry in a 3–1 household win over Sporting Clube de Portugal.

In Barcelona's treble-winning time of the year in 2008–09, Pedro ultimately totalled 14 equates, in addition showing in La Liga in resistance to Getafe CF (1–1 household draw), Valencia CF (4–0 household triumph), Real Valladolid (1–0 away win), CA Osasuna (0–1 household forfeit, with Barcelona now adorned champions), totalling 365 minutes. In the season's Copa del Rey, he acted in resistance to Benidorm CF and Atlético Madrid, on both functions for Lionel Messi. In the Champions League terminal, he acted the last minute, in the position of Andrés Iniesta.

Pedro (left) and Xavi, as long as the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup.

In 2009–10, director Josep Guardiola substantiated that Pedro would be absolutely endorsed to Barcelona's first assembly, and he replied with a advance time of the year, as long as which he became the first competitor to count in six divergent group contests as long as a solitary season.[13] On August 16, after helping Xavi with the first objective, Pedro counted his first competent objective for the first assembly in the 67th minute, aiding to assure a 2–1 win over Athletic Bilbao in San Mamés, for the season's in the household Supercup.Later that week, he noted his certified bond, running until June 2014, with a buyout clause set at £60 million. In the 2009 UEFA Super Cup in resistance to FC Shakhtar Donetsk, he came on as a replacement for Zlatan Ibrahimović in the 80th minute, and went on to count the 1–0 champion in surplus time.

On September 28, Pedro counted his first objective in the Champions League after returning Iniesta at halftime in a 2–0 win in resistance to FC Dynamo Kyiv. He carried on his sultry speckle and counted his first governing body objective, in resistance to UD Almería, with a sparkling beat that fastened the 1–0 household triumph. A month afterwards, on October 28, he counted a brace in the first leg of the Spanish Cup Round-of-32 correspond at Cultural y Deportiva Leonesa, for a 2–0 win (he in addition counted in the second leg, a 5–0 household rout).

More and more established in Barcelona's commencing lineups, Pedro went on to count another brace in the governing body, in a 4–2 win in resistance to RCD Mallorca. He would carry on his counting contact in the Champions League, counting one of two in resistance to F.C. Internazionale Milano.

On December 16, Pedro counted a objective in the semi-final of the FIFA Club World Cup in resistance to Atlante FC, in 3–1 win. In performing so, he became the only competitor to count in six divergent group contests in one time of the year – the three in the household tournaments, the UEFA Champions League and Super Cup and the Club World Cup. He was afterwards labelled World Player of the Week by Goal.com after his performances in resistance to RCD Espanyol, Atlante and Estudiantes de La Plata of Argentina, respectively.

In an emotional revisit to his hometown of disc storage invention Tenerife, on 10 January 2010, Pedro came on as a 76th-minute replacement, afterwards aiding to Ezequiel Luna's own objective in a 5–0 win; out of regard, he chose not to celebrate. On April 10, he counted the second objective in a 2–0 win in resistance to Real Madrid, in his first facade in El Clásico.

On April 14, in a governing body correspond in resistance to Deportivo de La Coruña, fighting against goalkeeper Daniel Aranzubia endeavoured to clear the ball from the apex of the 16-yard packing box, and alternatively hit the ball right to Pedro, who shot at objective from 40 courtyards with his left leg and counted, giving Barça a 2–0 lead – ultimately 3–0. He in addition encountered the mesh in a 3–1 overcome in the first leg of Champions League semi-finals, in resistance to Inter at the San Siro.

In the last three governing body equates, Pedro counted for Barcelona, with the Catalans ultimately transforming their governing body supremacy: in resistance to Tenerife over (4–1 win),[28] the 3–2 champion at Sevilla FC and in resistance to Valladolid (4–0).[30] He concluded the 2009–10 time of the year with 53 appearances in all contests (31 starts) and 23 goals. On 9 June 2010, he noted a new five-year deal with Barcelona.

Pedro commenced the 2010–11 time of the year substantially established in Barcelona's commencing XI. On 29 November 2010, he counted the second objective in a 5–0 household win in resistance to Real Madrid, with Barça scaling to the first location in the league.

International career

On 20 May 2010, Pedro was embraced by Vicente del Bosque in Spain's 23-man squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. On the 29th, he made his debut in a 3–2 congenial win in resistance to Saudi Arabia, and rake in his second covering before long after, as a 58th minute replacement in a 1–0 win in resistance to South Korea.

On 8 June 2010, in the last congenial earlier to the finals in South Africa, with Poland, Pedro counted his first global objective, and in addition helped Fernando Torres, in a 6–0 win, he included in all three training recreational activities earlier to the 2010 World Cup. In the terminal steps, he seemed in five equates (three as a late substitute): on July 7, in the semi-final in resistance to Germany, he commenced in position of Fernando Torres, who had been playing weakly in beforehand matches. In the 82nd minute of the correspond, with Spain primary 1–0, he endeavoured to count a objective himself as an alternative set up an unmarked Torres, though he played well in the match. Despite this wrongdoing, he was picked to start in the terminal, with the countrywide assembly victorious 1–0 in resistance to the Netherlands; at the hour-mark, he was returned by Jesús Navas.