Born in La Palma del Condado, Province of Huelva,[2] Pardeza was a youth system graduate at Real Madrid, making his first-team debut during the 1983–84 season.

After a loan at Real Zaragoza[2] he returned to the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, contributing 25 games and five goals to the club's 1987 national league conquest.

[3] With the 1987–88 campaign already underway, Pardeza signed a permanent five-year contract with Zaragoza,[4] going on to become one of the Aragonese team's most prominent members as an attacking player with skills, vision and netting ability (he scored in double figures in four seasons).

In June 2002, he became technical director of his former side Zaragoza[8] and, seven years later, he rejoined his first club Real Madrid in the same capacity, following Florentino Pérez's return as president.

[11] After four years of law studies and Hispanic philology at the University of Zaragoza (1994–99), Pardeza prepared a thesis on César González-Ruano [es], a Spanish journalist/writer.