Pedri wins the Kopa trophy, the Golden Ball for the best sub-21 of the year
El canario ve recompensada la magnífica temporada que ha completado con el Barcelona, con el que ganó la Copa del Rey, y con la selección española, donde llegó a semifinales de la Eurocopa y conquistó la plata en los Juegos de Tokio.
Barcelona player Pedro González López 'Pedri' won at his 19 years the Kopa Trophy, the Golden Ball for the best sub-21 player delivered by the magazine 'France Football'.A few days after being appointed Golde Boy by the Italian magazine 'Tuttosport', the Canary also won this award a few minutes before the 65th Golden Ball was announced, for which he was also a candidate, but finished 24 in theClassification of 30 finalists.
Pedri sees rewarded the magnificent season he has completed with Barcelona, with which he won the Copa del Rey, and with the Spanish team, where he reached the Eurocup semifinals and conquered the money at the Tokyo Olympic Games.The player wanted to dedicate the prize to his family, but also had a few words of support to the island of La Palma, affected by the eruption of a volcano: "They are having a bad time and all the support that we welcome them is".
Pedri, who received the award from the Italian Fabio Cannavaro, also thanked the support of his companions and captains, including the Argentine Lionel Messi, who went from Barça until last summer: "Thank you for everything you have helped me".
The Canarian, who on the 25th turned 19, said that this is "the best way to celebrate it, receive an award next to the best soccer players in the world".The player, who received a gift from the presenter of the ceremony, former soccer player Didier Droba, a recyclable bottle, took the opportunity to ask the use of plastics to be limited.
The young prodigy formed in Las Palmas, which arrived in Barça in 2020, has been imposed as an essential element of the team, although it now crosses an injury that keeps him away from the game land.Pedri becomes the third player to win the Kopa Trophy, after Kylian Mbappé won in 2018 and the following year was the Dutch Matthijs of Ligt.
The Barcelona player, who went to the ceremony accompanied by a wide delegation of his club, headed by the president, Joan Laporta, was also the protagonist when signing a Spanish team shirt for the pilot Fernando Alonso, who was in charge ofEsteban Ocón to bring trophies to the ceremony.
In addition to Pedri other members of Barça appear as candidates, the players of the ALEXIA PUELLAS, SANDRA PAÑOS and JENNIFER BEAUTIES AND LIEKE MARTENS Women's Section and Lieke Martens.
Together with him, the English Mason Greenwood (Manchester United) Jude Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund) and Bukayo Saka (Arsenal), the Germans Jamal Musiala (Bayern Munich) and Florian Wirtz (Bayer Leverkusen), the Belgian Jérémy Daku (Rennes (Rennes), Dutch Ryan Gravenberch (Ajax de Amsterdam), the American Giovanni Reyna (Borussia Dortmund) and Portuguese Nuno Mendes (PSG).