Pedri is here to rule

Pedri, in the shot of his goal against Sevilla this Sunday at the Camp Nou.ALBERT GEA (REUTERS)

There is no news of Pedri's interest in cinema.

Soon, everything will be known about his life and his miracles, which are becoming more and more frequent in football.

He is already a star, a condition that will subject him to exhaustive media scrutiny.

Just over a year ago, he was a promising teenager who came to Barça for four million euros.

Nobody expected to see him in the first team.

The unthinkable now is to see him out of the team, the selection and the recurring annual lists of awards.

Meanwhile, Pedri produces a cinematographic fascination in the field.

Against the fierce defense of Sevilla, Pedri reissued in cinemascope the exquisite goal he scored against Galatasaray.

One outside the box, the other in the small box.

The last prodigy of his materialized the victory over Sevilla and crowned the escalation of Barça, which not long ago lived in the heart of darkness.

The League will escape him, or so it seems, but the team is finally in its natural territory: it wins a lot, loses very little and the packaging of its game is being talked about again.

Barça's start is attributed to two main factors, Xavi and the signings in the winter market.

Little to discuss on this matter.

A less commented aspect of the flood is the influence of Pedri.

After four months of absence, he returned in mid-January.

Since then, Barça has played nine league games: eight wins and one draw.

Neither the goals, nor the assists, nor the passes made, nor his enormous display – he walks the field like an Ethiopian – sum up his impact on the game.

Pedri's claim is none other than to govern the parties.

It would be considered an impossible challenge for a 19-year-old player, with a season of experience in the First Division, but Pedri belongs to the very small lineage of footballers who are in the field to command.

Intelligence, skill and conviction

His government is not strident.

Pedri is the opposite of the overwhelming footballer who transmits an epic message to his teams.

He is not the last reincarnation of Belauste, of course.

His teaching lies in the perfect combination of intelligence, skill and boundless conviction.

It is said that Pedri remembers Iniesta, and some of that is true, but in the same way he refers to three singular, monumental players, forgers of Barça's football identity: Guardiola, Xavi and Busquets.

The apriorisms of football put the three under suspicion.

They skipped the patterns of modernity.

Guardiola could not sprint, jump and crash.

Xavi was small and diesel in a world of athletes.

In less than a month, the lanky, skinny Busquets took over from the towering Yaya Touré, who was later elevated to Manchester City legend.

Although the verdict on Pedri is beginning to be unanimous, there has been no lack of reservations, doubts and

criticism .

The glossary is the one reserved for this class of players: he is not explosive, he lacks physicality, he loses his horizontality, he is not prepared for hand-to-hand combat.

As for the vaunted lack of goal, Pedri also refers to Iniesta, who never scored more than 10 goals in a season, but scored the most important in Spanish football and a crucial one in the history of Barça.

Like his fantastic predecessors at Barça, Pedri knows the words of football by heart and uses it in the most suitable team.

It is a perfect symbiosis.

Pedri is not measured by

.

He measures the mystery of his wisdom, a factor that distinguishes a small tribe from the privileged.

To these chosen ones of soccer, the statistics slip.

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