Barcelona Pedro To Miss

Barcelona player Pedro to miss Real Madrid Copa del Rey clash with hamstring injury to the Spain international picked up a knock on Thursday and will face 10 days on the sidelines which will keep him out of next week's cup Clasico at the Santiago Bernabeu have announced that Pedro will miss the 1st-leg of the Copa del Rey quarter-finals against Real Madrid after picking up a hamstring injury in Thursday's 2-1 victory at Osasuna.

A versatile forward featured from the start in the second leg of the last-16 cup match at the Reyno de Navarra, but was forced to leave the pitch after 68 minutes of play due to the knock and he will be out of action for the next 10 days, which means that he will miss Barca's Liga matches against Betis and Malaga, and next week's Clasico at the Santiago Bernabeu in the 24-year-old has so far made 25 appearances in all competitions this season, scoring six goals.

International career for a Pedro On 20 May 2010, Pedro was included by Vicente del Bosque in Spain's 23-man squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup On the 29th, he made his debut in a 3–2 friendly win against Saudi Arabia, and earned his 2nd cap shortly after, as a 58th minute substitute in a 1–0 win against South Korea.On 8 June 2010 in the last friendly prior to the finals in South Africa, with Poland, Pedro scored his 1st international goal, and also assisted Fernando Torres, in a 6–0 victory and the final stages, he appeared in five matches (three as a late substitute) on July 7, in the semi-final against Germany and the he started in place of Torres, who had been performing poorly in earlier matches.