Every time Pedri scores a goal, he brings his hands together in front of his eyes as if he were holding binoculars. Half the world thought it was a meaningless gesture, just another footballer’s habit.
He clarified it himself: “When you see me score, they aren’t binoculars. I’m actually putting on my grandfather’s glasses”. Behind the gesture is a story that began long before he arrived at Barcelona, when he was a child from Tenerife holding a signed ball, dreaming of a club that had once rejected him.
His grandfather did not live to see him make his debut in the shirt he loved so much, but every celebration is a way of telling him that he is still there. “Although you are no longer here, you remain part of my life; thank you for leaving me this love of football in my blood”, Pedri wrote. For him, football is also memory ⚽️❤️