“Joao has been a long-term target,” says technical director David Weir. Pedro is a player De Zerbi was really keen on, according to a source at the club, who was granted anonymity to protect relationships.īrighton have been on the same wavelength. They have been emphatically put to bed by the capture of Pedro for just under £30million ($38m) on a five-year contract until June 2028. Memes began depicting Pedro and his campaign slogan, Vote for Pedro, in opposition to Trump.There were rumblings before and during the January transfer window that the club’s data-led recruitment model, which has so many admirers, threatened tensions if players De Zerbi likes do not correspond with Brighton’s own list of targets. The phrase earned even more traction in the 2016 US Presidential election due to Donald Trump’s frequently racist and derogatory comments toward Latinx cultures.

In the 2016 election, “Pedro” was a popular write-in choice for protest votes, meaning people literally did vote for Pedro. Not too surprisingly, Google Trends shows that the use of the phrase Vote for Pedro tends to become more popular around US Presidential election cycles, perhaps due to increasing dissatisfaction with the two major political parties.

The phrase Vote for Pedro, and the dance that accompanied it, became a cultural touchstone that has earned many tributes and spoofs.īased on the movie’s popularity, the phrase Vote for Pedro was commercialized in the form of millions of t-shirts, hats, buttons, coffee mugs, cell-phone cases, bumper stickers, and so on, which are still sold today. With Pedro seemingly on the verge of losing, his loyal friend Napoleon (wearing a Vote for Pedro shirt) jumps onto the stage and does an elaborate dance routine, which earns a standing ovation and results in Pedro winning the vote.įew could have predicted that the offbeat film would end up being a sensation, especially beloved by the millennial generation who were around Pedro’s age when the film was released. In climax of the film, the candidates perform a “skit” before the entire school.

Napoleon helps his campaign by making t-shirts and flyers that say “Vote for Pedro.” One of the many storylines in the film involves Pedro running for class president. The quirky 2004 independent film Napoleon Dynamite stars Jon Heder as Napoleon, an awkward teenager who befriends another shy outcast named Pedro Sánchez, played by Efren Ramirez.

Pedro & Daniel by Federico Erebia