Pedro Rodriguez He will always be able to say that he was a starter in the best Barça always and in which, probably, it was the most rounded team that has ever been seen on a football field. The Barça youth squad is now 37 years old but his role in the elite continues to be more than notable. So much so that his current club, the laziois already thinking about renewing a contract that expires at the end of the current season, according to reports La Gazzetta dello Sport. One of the virtues that are most remembered of ‘Pedrito’ in becoming Pedro when he became known in the elite was that of shining on the big stage and always at the most important moment. He did it between 2007 and 2015 at Barça, especially when he was under the orders of his main mentor Pep Guardiolaand he also did it in the Spanish team that was proclaimed world champion in 2010. Even today, Pedro continues to be the only Spanish footballer to score in all competitions in the same year, 2009. With Lazio, this season he has returned to exhibit his providentialism: he adds 6 goals, 3 in Serie A and another 3 in the Europa League, to become a mainstay of the Italian team he leads Marco Baroni. He has achieved those 6 goals in 12 games, with an accuracy that ensures a goal every 100 minutes and to which he has also added 2 assists.
Experience and level explain why the coach has gone from dosing starts in Cup matches to giving him a role in the Italian League, in which Lazio is one point behind the leader, Naples, to putting him on the board in the league matches in Como and in Monza.
The former FC Barcelona and Chelsea winger is a reference in the locker room, another reason that practically guarantees him a proposal to extend his stay at the Roman club for another season.
His last contract renewal came automatically at the end of last season, when his departure to other Leagues seemed very plausible. Even at the end of 2023, in words for The Betevé goal He even said that if Barça called him “I take a quick flight and before it hangs up I’m here”.
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Pedro is performing in such a way that Lazio, according to this information from the dean of the European sports press together with Mundo Deportivo, is willing to offer him an extension of one more year. Baroni It also supports the possibility that a footballer who scored 99 goals in a legendary Barça and who contributed 17 goals in his 65 games as an absolute Spanish international can continue helping with his know-how and sense of the collective game. Such is the esteem in which he is being held at Lazio that it is even suggested that in the future he could become an important resource at the management level when he decides to hang up his boots.
