Pedroad Runner to Run to South Africa?

Pedro Rodríguez Ledesma, the Barcelona winger who has become the first player in all of footballing history (scandalous, I know) to score in six different competitions in one season. He is completely 100% ambidextrous, has a magnificent long range shot. He is tied with Zlatan Ibrahimovic for the second most goals in the club so far this season. Talk of Ibra’s impotence (to some anyways) or is this the revelation of a player who’s going to storm the contentinal scene for the next decade?

Certainly, this season Pedro has exceeded all expectations. He quickly relegated Thierry Henry to the bench and secured himself a starting position in the Barcelona XI. He has made 32 appearances in La Liga for the club so far, scoring ten goals. A modest return, but he has scored some vitally important goals throughout the season. As just mentioned, he has put up the goods in every competition Barcelona has participated in the past year, a fantastic achievement.

Pedro is adaptable as playing on either wing, and generally likes to cut inside with his runs where he can look to take a shot from anywhere he is on the field. He moves into channels quite well, a staple of the tiki-taka system Barcelona employs. Preferably it seems, Pedro will line up just inside of the opposing teams’ outside back where he has maximum option of taking the ball wide, continuing his run inside or running at the player to beat him. We saw him employ this moderately successfully against Inter’s Maicon.