Teenager Pedri could start Barcelona’s La Liga opener against Real Sociedad even though he played a 73rd game of his marathon 2020\/21 in last weekend’s Olympic final, according to reports.
\nPedri, 18, featured in more games than any other player after a switch from Segunda Division’s Las Palmas. He emerged as\u00a0a key figure in the\u00a0club side who finished third in La Liga, plus the Spain sides who made Euro 2020’s semi-finals and were beaten 2-1 by Brazil at the Tokyo Games.
\nThe midfielder only arrived back for training\u00a0on Tuesday, but SPORT states he’s made himself available for Sunday’s domestic fixture. His employers do not yet know if any new signings can be registered in time and are reeling from the loss of talisman Lionel Messi to Paris Saint-Germain.
\nAn injury to Netherlands superstar Frenkie de Jong has further complicated matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Teenager Pedri could start Barcelona\u2019s La Liga opener against Real Sociedad even though he played a 73rd game of his marathon 2020\/21 in last weekend\u2019s Olympic final, according to reports.
\nPedri, 18, featured in more games than any other player after a switch from Segunda Division\u2019s Las Palmas. He emerged as\u00a0a key figure in the\u00a0club side who finished third in La Liga, plus the Spain sides who made Euro 2020\u2019s semi-finals and were beaten 2-1 by Brazil at the Tokyo Games.
\nThe midfielder only arrived back for training\u00a0on Tuesday, but SPORT states he\u2019s made himself available for Sunday\u2019s domestic fixture. His employers do not yet know if any new signings can be registered in time and are reeling from the loss of talisman Lionel Messi to Paris Saint-Germain.
\nAn injury to Netherlands superstar Frenkie de Jong has further complicated matters.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114927,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114926\/revisions\/114927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}