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Pedro Eliezer Rodríguez Ledesma (born 28 July 1987), known as Pedro, is a Spanish professional
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who plays as a winger for
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club
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. Pedro scored 99 goals in 321 appearances across all competitions for
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from 2008 to 2015. During the 2009–10 season, he became the first player in history to score in every official club competition in a single season and in a single calendar year. He joined Chelsea in 2015 where he scored 43 goals in 206 appearances and helped the club win the
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in 2017, the
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in 2018 and the
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in 2019. He joined Serie A club Roma in 2020, before moving to their city rivals Lazio in the following year. Pedro represented
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in two
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s and two
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s, winning the former in
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and the latter in
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Club career


Early career

Born in
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, Tenerife, Pedro started his career at local club San Isidro. He scored 35 goals for their youth team in the 2003–04 season, and also played for the first team in the
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. He was first noticed by
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in 2003 while playing at a youth competition on his native island; the club had sent a
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to watch Spain youth international Jeffrén Suárez. In August 2004, Pedro joined Barcelona's youth team. Pedro was a key player for Barcelona B as the team achieved
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in the 2007–08 Tercera División, making 36 appearances and scoring six goals. On 12 January 2008, he made his debut for the first team, playing one minute in a 4–0 home win against Real Murcia in the 2007–08 La Liga, but would only amass four more minutes in his only two appearances combined.


Barcelona


2008–2010: development and breakthrough

Pedro was a part of the first team's 2008–09 pre-season, and showed early promise, scoring against Hibernian and the
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respectively. On 13 August 2008, he started in a 4–0 win against
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in the third qualifying round of the
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. His first appearance in the group stage of that competition came on 16 September, when he replaced
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in a 3–1 home win over
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. In Barcelona's treble-winning season in 2008–09, Pedro made 14 appearances. In the Champions League final, he came on as a stoppage-time substitute in a 2–0 win against
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at the
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in
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. In the 2009–10 season, Pedro became the first player to score in every official club competition in a single season and also in a calendar year. On 16 August, after assisting
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with the first goal, he scored his first competitive goal for the first team in the 67th minute, helping to ensure a 2–1 victory over
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in San Mamés for the
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. Later that week, he signed his first professional contract with Barcelona. In the
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against Shakhtar Donetsk, he came on as a substitute for
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in the 80th minute, and went on to score the only goal of the match in
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. On 28 September, Pedro scored his first goal in the Champions League, after replacing Iniesta at
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in a 2–0 win against
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. On 16 December, Pedro scored a goal in the semi-final of the
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against Atlante, in a 3–1 win. In doing so, he became the first player ever to score in six different club competitions in a single season and in a single year – the three domestic competitions, the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup. Pedro scored for Barcelona in each of the last three league matches of the season, with the team eventually renewing their league supremacy: against Tenerife (4–1 win), the 3–2 winner at
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and against Valladolid (4–0). He completed the 2009–10 season with 52 appearances in all competitions and 23 goals, and, on 9 June 2010, signed a new five-year contract with Barcelona.


2010–11: UEFA Champions League and La Liga success

Pedro began the 2010–11 season firmly established in Barcelona's starting line-up. On 29 November 2010, he scored the second goal in the a 5–0 home win against Real Madrid, with Barcelona climbing to the first place in the league as a result. The following month, he scored twice against Espanyol in the
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, in a 5–1 away win. On 20 April 2011, Pedro scored against Real Madrid in the second half of 2011 Copa del Rey final, but his goal was disallowed for offside, in an eventual 1–0 extra-time loss. On 3 May, against the same opponent, in the 2010–11 Champions League semi-final second leg, he found Iker Casillas' net in a 1–1 home draw (3–1 aggregate win). In the Champions League final, he opened the scoring against Manchester United, in a 3–1 win at
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in London.


2011–2014: further La Liga and domestic success

On 5 July 2011, Pedro extended his contract by one year, until June 2016. His buyout clause was raised from €90 million to €150 million. After the signing of
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, Pedro featured less during the 2011–12 season. However, he did finish the season with 13 goals, including two in that season's Copa del Rey final, a 3–0 win against Athletic Bilbao. Pedro scored a
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on 21 September 2013 in a 4–0 victory away to
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. On 22 December, in another away fixture, he added another three – all in the first half and in only nine minutes – to help Barcelona come back from 2–0 down to win 5–2 over Getafe, thus becoming the player to score the fastest ever hat-trick in Barcelona history.


2014–15: treble and final season

On 16 December 2014, Pedro scored another hat-trick, this time in a round of 32 second leg fixture in the
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against
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, with Barcelona winning 8–1 at home. On 4 June 2015, Barcelona announced that Pedro had signed a new four-year contract, and that his buyout clause would remain at €150 million. Pedro appeared as a stoppage-time substitute on 6 June 2015 in the Champions League final, as the club won its fifth title by beating
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3–1 at
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's Olympiastadion. This made Barcelona the first club in history to win the treble of domestic league, domestic cup and European Cup twice. Pedro,
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, Andrés Iniesta, Xavi, Gerard Piqué,
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and Dani Alves were the only players to have been a part of both treble-winning teams. As an extra-time substitute, Pedro scored the winning goal as Barcelona won the 2015 UEFA Super Cup 5–4 against Sevilla on 11 August in
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.


Chelsea


2015–2017: debut season and Premier League title

On 20 August 2015, Pedro signed for
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champions Chelsea on a four-year contract for £19 million (€26.6 million), potentially rising to £21.4 million (€30 million) in add-ons. His first club, San Isidro, received €420,000 from the transfer. Three days after signing, he made his debut away to
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, scoring the first goal and providing an assist for the second goal of a 3–2 win. On 19 December, Pedro scored the second goal in a 3–1 win against
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, his first at Chelsea's home ground, Stamford Bridge. On 13 February, Pedro scored a brace in a 5–1 victory over
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, and again on 2 April in a 4–0 win over
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. Pedro made his first start of the 2016–17 season on 20 August 2016 in an away match against
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, after it was announced that Willian was out with an injury. On 23 October, Pedro scored the fastest goal of the season, which came in the first 30 seconds of a 4–0 home victory over Manchester United. He scored the equaliser for Chelsea shortly before half-time in a 2–1 victory over
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on 26 November. The goal was later named the Premier League Goal of the Month for November. On 30 April 2017, he scored with a 25 yard shot in a 3–0 away win over Chelsea Everton, which later won the Premier League Goal of the Month award for April.


2018–2020: UEFA Europa League win and final season

On 11 August 2018, he scored his first league goal of the 2018–19 season in a 3–0 win away to
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. On his 150th Chelsea appearance, Pedro scored the club's 1,000th Premier League goal at Stamford Bridge, opening the scoring in a 2–0 win against
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. He scored two goals and had a hand in two more to help Chelsea through to the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League semi-final at the expense of
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at Stamford Bridge on 18 April. Chelsea won 4–3 on the night and 5–3 on aggregate. On 29 May, Pedro scored in Chelsea's 4–1 win over
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in the 2019 Europa League final; as a result, he became the fifth player to score in a European Cup/Champions League and UEFA Cup/Europa League final, after Allan Simonsen, Dmitri Alenichev,
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, and
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confirmed that Pedro would leave the club at the end of the season.


Roma

On 25 August 2020,
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club Roma signed Pedro on a three-year contract. He made his debut on 19 September, in a 0–0 draw with
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. He scored his first goal for Roma on 3 October in a 1–0 victory over Udinese. After a strong start, his performances worsened due to several injuries and a conflict with manager Paulo Fonseca. Nevertheless, he scored in a 2–0 win in the
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against
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on 15 May 2021 in the final match of the season.


Lazio

On 19 August 2021, Pedro joined Roma's Derby della Capitale rivals Lazio on a two-year contract having been omitted from new Roma manager
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's squad for their pre-season fixtures. He became the first player since goalkeeper Astutillo Malgioglio in 1985 to move directly between the two clubs. On 21 August, he made his debut in a 3–1 win against
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, and scored his first goal against Roma on 26 September, becoming only the third player to score for both clubs in the Derby della Capitale. On 7 March 2023, he scored a goal in a 2–1 defeat against
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in the Conference League round of 16, to become the first player to score in the knockout stages of all three existing European competitions. On 25 July 2023, he extended his contract with Lazio for the 2023–24 season. On 4 October 2023, he scored his first Champions League goal with Lazio in the 6th and final minute of stoppage time in a 2–1 away win over
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.


International career

Pedro was included by in
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's 23-man squad for the
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in South Africa. Nine days later, he made his debut in a 3–2 friendly win against
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, replacing
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for the final 30 minutes. On 8 June, in the last friendly prior to the start of the World Cup, Pedro scored his first international goal, in a 6–0 victory over
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in
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's Estadio Nueva Condomina. Pedro appeared in five matches at the World Cup, three of which came as a late substitute. On 7 July 2010, in the semi-final against
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, he started in place of
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, who had been performing poorly in earlier matches. In the 82nd minute, with Spain leading 1–0, Pedro attempted to score a goal himself rather than set up an unmarked Torres, although he performed well in the match. Pedro started in the
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at
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in
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on 11 July, with Spain beating the
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1–0 after extra time to win the World Cup for the first time. Pedro was part of the Spain squad for
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in Poland and Ukraine, which they entered as defending champions. He did not appear in any of their matches in the
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but came on as a substitute in each of their matches in the
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. This included the
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on 1 July, which he entered as a 59th-minute substitute as Spain beat
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4–0 at the
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in
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. Pedro scored the first hat-trick of his career on 12 October 2012 in a 4–0 away win over
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in a 2014 World Cup qualifier. He was part of the squad that came runners-up at the
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in Brazil, scoring in a 2–1 opening win over
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. He was chosen for the
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in the same country, a group-stage exit for the holders. At
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in France, he attracted attention for saying that his substitute role was "not worth" his time. Pedro was not chosen for the
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, nor were his Chelsea teammates
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,
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or Marcos Alonso.


Style of play

A quick, versatile, and intelligent two-footed forward, Pedro usually plays as a left winger, although he is capable of playing on either flank, as well as in several other positions in both attack and midfield; he has often been used on the right flank with the Spanish national team. A nimble and diminutive player, he is known for his pace, balance, technique,
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skills, and defensive workrate, as well as his ability both to score and create goals, courtesy of his finishing ability, passing, crossing, and link-up play. Moreover, he is known for his ability to make runs in behind the opposing defence from the flank or drive forward, which makes him an attacking threat on counter-attacks.


Career statistics


Club


International

:''Scores and results list Spain's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Pedro goal''


Honours

Barcelona B *
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: 2007–08 Barcelona *
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: 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2014–15 *
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: 2008–09, 2011–12, 2014–15; *
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2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
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2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
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2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
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2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...
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: 2008–09, 2010–11, 2014–15 *
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:
2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
,
2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
,
2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...
*
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2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
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2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
Chelsea *
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: 2016–17 *
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: 2017–18 *
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: 2018–19 *
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runner-up: 2018–19 *
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runner-up:
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2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
Spain *
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*
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runner-up:
2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...
Individual * La Liga's Breakthrough Player: 2009–10 * Premier League Goal of the Month: November 2016, April 2017 *UEFA Europa League Squad of the Season: 2018–19 *
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Goal of the Year: 2024


References


External links


Profile
at the SS Lazio website * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pedro 1987 births Living people Footballers from Santa Cruz de Tenerife Spanish men's footballers Men's association football wingers Men's association football forwards FC Barcelona C players FC Barcelona Atlètic players FC Barcelona players Chelsea F.C. players AS Roma players SS Lazio players Tercera División players Segunda División B players La Liga players Premier League players Serie A players UEFA Champions League–winning players UEFA Europa League–winning players Spain men's under-21 international footballers Spain men's international footballers 2010 FIFA World Cup players UEFA Euro 2012 players 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup players 2014 FIFA World Cup players UEFA Euro 2016 players UEFA European Championship–winning players FIFA World Cup–winning players Spanish expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in England Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Spanish expatriate sportspeople in England Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Italy 21st-century Spanish sportsmen