Pedro (soccer player)

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Pedro
Pedro playing for Chelsea.jpg
Pedro (2015)
Personnel
Surname Pedro Eliezer Rodríguez Ledesma
birthday July 28, 1987
place of birth Santa Cruz de Tenerife ,  Spain
size 167 cm
position Right / left winger
Juniors
Years station
2003-2004 CD San ​​Isidro
2004-2007 FC Barcelona
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2005-2007 FC Barcelona C
2007-2009 FC Barcelona B 55 (17)
2008-2015 FC Barcelona 204 (58)
2015-2020 Chelsea FC 137 (30)
2020– AS Roma 0 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2008 Spain U-21 2 0(0)
2010– Spain 65 (17)
1 Only league games are given.
As of August 25, 2020

2 As of October 9, 2017

Pedro (born July 28, 1987 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife , Canary Islands ; full name Pedro Eliezer Rodríguez Ledesma ) is a Spanish football player . The winger is under contract with AS Roma .

society

Pedro played for CD San ​​Isidro and joined FC Barcelona in 2004 as a 17-year-old . In the 2007/08 season he was a key player in the B team. With seven goals in 37 games, he contributed to the rise of the Tercera División in the Segunda División B in.

He played his first league game for the first team on January 12, 2008 against Real Murcia , when he came on for Samuel Eto'o when he was 4-0 in the 88th minute .

In the 2008/09 season, in which Barça won the triple, he played 14 competitive games - most of them not over the full season - and remained without scoring.

When Barça played the first leg of the Spanish Supercup at Athletic Bilbao on August 16, 2009 , Pedro was man of the game. He prepared the 1-1 draw with Xavi and scored the winning goal to make it 2-1. Also four days later in the next Supercup game against Shakhtar Donetsk , Pedro scored as a substitute in extra time to make it 1-0. He scored his first Champions League goal on September 29, 2009 in a 2-0 win over Dynamo Kiev . Only a little later, in a 1-0 win against UD Almería on October 3, 2009, his first league goal followed. At the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup , Pedro scored both 3-1 in the semifinals against CF Atlante and in the final against Estudiantes . His goal to make it 1-1 in the 89th minute saved Barcelona in extra time, which was finally decided 2-1 by a goal from Lionel Messi .

With Barcelona he successfully defended the Spanish championship in 2010. He played 53 games in the 2009/10 season, including 34 in the starting line-up, and scored 23 goals. He also secured a regular place in the left winger position, displacing Thierry Henry on the bench.

On July 7, 2011, Pedro extended his contract with Barça until 2016, his transfer fee was fixed at 150 million euros.

Pedro in the FC Barcelona jersey (2014)

In the 2014/15 season, Pedro won the triple with FC Barcelona, ​​consisting of championship, cup and Champions League winners. However, he did not get beyond the reserve role behind Lionel Messi , Luis Suárez and Neymar .

During his time in the first team, Pedro won 20 titles between 2008 and 2015, including five championships and three Champions League.

After Pedro had scored FC Barcelona in extra time against FC Sevilla to win the UEFA Super Cup with his goal to make it 5-4, he moved to the club on August 20, 2015 after more than 11 years at the club for 27 million euros Premier League to champions Chelsea FC . On August 23, 2015, Pedro made his debut in the away game against West Bromwich Albion . In the 3-2 win, Pedro scored the opening goal, prepared the interim 2-0 through Diego Costa and was named player of the game.

For the 2020/21 season, Pedro moved to the Italian Serie A at AS Roma , where he signed a contract until June 30, 2023.

National team

On May 20, 2010 Pedro was nominated by Vicente del Bosque for the squad of the Spanish national team for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa .

He made his international debut on May 29 in the World Cup preparation game against Saudi Arabia when he came on as a substitute in the 60th minute of his team's 3-2 win. Just before the start of the World Cup, Pedro scored his first international goal. In the game against Poland on June 8th, he scored 6-0.

At the European Football Championship in France in 2016 , he was included in the Spanish squad. He came to two short appearances as a substitute in the opening game against the Czech Republic and in the round of 16 against the Italians, who threw Spain out of the tournament.

Special

Pedro made football history with his goal in the semi-finals of the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup . As the first professional in the world, he was a goalscorer in six different competitions within a year. Before the Club World Cup, Pedro had already scored goals in the Spanish league, the cup, the Champions League and the Spanish and European Supercup.

Private

Pedro has a son with his girlfriend Carolin (* April 2013).

successes

Society:

National team:

Web links

Commons : Pedro  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ weltfussball.de: FC Barcelona vs Real Murcia , January 12, 2008
  2. ↑ goal.com: Match report Supercup Spain: Athletic Bilbao - FC Barcelona , August 16, 2009
  3. ↑ SPIEGEL online: Pedro redeems Barça from Donetsk , August 28, 2009
  4. ↑ goal.com Barcelona 2-0 Dynamo Kiev: Messi & Pedro Unlock Stubborn Ukrainians , September 29, 2009
  5. ^ ESPN Soccernet: Pedro stunner enough for Barca , October 4, 2009
  6. ^ ESPN Soccernet: Estudiantes La Plata 1 - 2 Barcelona , December 19, 2009
  7. ↑ weltfussball.de: Overview of the club games
  8. ↑ FCBarcelona.com: Pedro satisfied with new contract ( Memento of the original of July 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fcbarcelona.com
  9. ↑ FC Barcelona: Pedro Rodríguez: Farewell after 20 titles , August 20, 2015, accessed on August 20, 2015.
  10. ↑ Chelsea FC: Pedro signs for Chelsea , August 20, 2015, accessed August 20, 2015.
  11. ↑ Pedro meets on his debut for the Blues , August 23, 2015
  12. ↑ Roma complete Pedro signing , asroma.com, August 25, 2020, accessed August 25, 2020.
  13. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match scheme / line-up: Spain - Saudi Arabia (friendship 2010) , May 29, 2010
  14. ↑ weltfussball.de: Match scheme / line-up: Spain - Poland (friendship 2010) , 8. June 2010
  15. ↑ Mundo Deportivo Nace Bryan Rodríguez Martín, primer hijo de Pedro
personal data
SURNAME Pedro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rodríguez Ledesma, Pedro Eliezer (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Cruz de Tenerife , Canary Islands , Spain