{"id":2032,"date":"2025-06-07T18:13:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T18:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/?p=2032"},"modified":"2025-06-12T22:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T22:19:12","slug":"luis-de-la-fuente-confirms-pedris-fresh-spain-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/07\/luis-de-la-fuente-confirms-pedris-fresh-spain-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis de la Fuente confirms Pedri\u2019s fresh Spain role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>Barcelona superstar Pedri has been singled out for praise by Spain boss Luis de la Fuente ahead of the UEFA Nations League final.<\/p>\n<p>Pedri netted his first-ever competitive goal for Spain in the wild 5-4 semi final win over France on June 5.<\/p>\n<p>It ended a long wait for Pedri to find the net in a key game for La Roja but the goal forms part of a wider recent picture for the Tenerife-born playmaker.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football-espana.net\/2025\/06\/06\/spain-important-barcelona-teammate-nations-league\">Teammate Fabian Ruiz has led the plaudits for Pedri in the current Spain camp<\/a> with the PSG star labelling him as \u2018incredibly important\u2019 to De la Fuente\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n<h2>Pedri\u2019s incredible 2024\/25 season<\/h2>\n<p>Pedri secured three major trophies with Barcelona in 2024\/25 as Hansi Flick won a debut La Liga, Copa del Rey and Spanish Supercup treble in Catalonia.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old was heartbeat of Flick\u2019s team as he worked overtime to banish lingering concerns of injuries starting to derail his career.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1574\" class=\"wp-image-261023 has-webp\" style=\"height:auto;max-width: 2048px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Pedri-3.jpeg\" alt=\"Pedri\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football-espana.net\/2025\/05\/25\/pedri-barcelona-transformation-2024-25\">Pedri featured in 59 of Barcelona\u2019s 60 games across all competitions<\/a> \u2013 the highest one-season total of his Barcelona career \u2013 and No.1 in Flick\u2019s squad in 2024\/25.<\/p>\n<p>He started alongside Basque duo Mikel Merino and Martin Zubimendi against France, and despite expected changes for the challenge of Portugal, Pedri will be unmoved.<\/p>\n<h2>De la Fuente delighted with \u2018new\u2019 Pedri<\/h2>\n<p>Ahead of the showdown with Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal, De la Fuente outlined how Pedri\u2019s game has evolved, with the 22-year-old now a guaranteed starter for Spain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPedri has a special talent, as a No.8 or as a No. 10. I would like him to play closer to the opposition box as goals are scored nearer to the box. Key are made there passes too,\u201d as per quotes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mundodeportivo.com\/seleccion-espanola\/20250607\/1002479506\/fuente-sorprendia-ver-como-lamine-lleva-esto.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mundo Deportivo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe contributes a lot to us there. Because he can make those final passes, he completes patterns of play, and he\u2019s improved a lot with his shooting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.football-espana.net\/2025\/06\/07\/luis-de-la-fuente-pedri-spain-role\">Luis de la Fuente confirms Pedri&#8217;s fresh Spain role<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.football-espana.net\">Football Espa\u00f1a<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona superstar Pedri has been singled out for praise by Spain boss Luis de la Fuente ahead of the UEFA Nations League final. Pedri netted his first-ever competitive goal for Spain in the wild 5-4 semi final win over France on June 5. It ended a long wait for Pedri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2035,"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions\/2035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}