Yeah especially in the way they gave it yo him. Patrick Veira could have at least let him play the whole or 1/2 of the game. It’s not like anyone else was doing more.
As a Bayern and Germany fan, I believe Pirlo at his prime 2003-07 is the best midfielder of his generation and one of the greatest ever midfielders I have seen. Media focused too much about Xavi and Iniesta, but I have always believed Pirlo would have achieved everything they have achieved if he were surrounded by world class players. For a player of Pirlo’s talent, I think it is unfair for him to play with the teammates that surrounded him(Not demeaning any players but just that Pirlo was too good). In Pirlo, I believe God truly exists! Considering the fact that Pirlo was often the main and the only playmaking hub of the team, nobody I have seen can exert such influence to his team and can single-handedly distribute the ball with such intelligence, vision, creativity and ease as Pirlo, not even Xavi.
It was more a shedding the books of payroll thing than it was a direct indictment on Noce's play, which for that level, was actually pretty good.
Mayor of New York @BilldeBlasio names Dec 6 2017 Andrea Pirlo Day in honour of #NYCFC star https://t.co/NduTHy0hQ7 @Pirlo_official #MLS pic.twitter.com/ry4aNbtTaB— Football Italia (@footballitalia) December 7, 2017
Pirlo e la partita di addio Sarà una parata di stelle L'ELENCO — Una lista di convocati ricca di campioni che hanno accompagnato Pirlo in vent'anni di carriera, aiutandolo a vincere un Mondiale, 2 Champions League, 6 Scudetti, un Mondiale per Club, due Supercoppe Europee, 3 Supercoppe Italiane e 2 Coppe Italia. Portieri: Christian Abbiati, Gianluigi Buffon, Nelson Dida, Marco Storari. Difensori: Daniele Adani, Andrea Barzagli, Daniele Bonera, Leonardo Bonucci, Marcos Cafu, Fabio Cannavaro, Giorgio Chiellini, Billy Costacurta, Giuseppe Favalli, Ciro Ferrara, Fabio Grosso, Marek Jankulovski, Kahka Kaladze, Stephan Lichtsteiner, Paolo Maldini, Marco Materazzi, Alessandro Nesta, Massimo Oddo, Serginho, Dario Simic e Gianluca Zambrotta. Centrocampisti: Demetrio Albertini, Massimo Ambrosini, Roberto Baronio, Cristian Brocchi, Mauro German Camoranesi, Daniele De Rossi, Alessandro Diamanti, Aimo Diana, Gennaro Gattuso, Frank Lampard, Leonardo, Claudio Marchisio, Simone Pepe, Simone Perrotta, Manuel Rui Costa, Clarence Seedorf, Marco Verratti. Attaccanti: Marco Borriello, Antonio Cassano, Hernan Crespo, Alessandro Del Piero, Alberto Gilardino, Vincenzo Iaquinta, Filippo Inzaghi, Alessandro Matri, Alexandre Pato, Fabio Quagliarella, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Andriy Shevchenko, Luca Toni, Francesco Totti, Nicola Ventola e Christian Vieri
Premio Facchetti a Pirlo "Giacinto era speciale" NUOVO l'intervista Pirlo: "Allenare? VedremoMa Conte mi ha influenzato"