World football star Andrea Pirlo announced his retirement.
The famous Italian midfielder has announced his retirement at the age of 38 years. Andrea Pirlo retires from football. About this Italian, who in the last 2 years playing in the North American League MLS club “new York city”, announced on their official pages in social networks.
“The last match in MLS. My time in “new York city” is coming to an end…… but my journey in the rank of the player also ends. I want to thank my family for their support and love. Thank you to each team, where I played every partner, and all the people who made my career amazing. And thank you to all the fans from around the world for their support. You will always be in my heart,” wrote Pirlo.
The Latest “Architect”
Probably the last classical player-Manager, intelligent and intellectual, Pirlo on the field knew almost everything. But I almost always prefer to give a scoring pass to a teammate than to score a goal in person. He liked to conduct the game, and his nickname (from Andrea several) speak for themselves: “Maestro”, “Architect”, “Professor”.
Although he scored in his entire career not so little: under 100 goals at the highest level (championship, Italian Serie A, European cups, matches for the Italian national team), but most of the goals sent into the net wonderful long-range shots. In this, he’s always been a master.
A large part of his career Pirlo (2001 – 2011) was held in Milan, where he played, including 6 seasons with Andrei Shevchenko. Ukrainian not once, not twice scored with assists Pirlo. But other Ukrainians in matches when on the pitch were Pirlo, was fatally unlucky. The real “evil genius” for our teams haven’t lost a single match against the representatives of Ukraine, whether it’s fights at the level of teams or competitions. In 9 matches – 8 wins and only 1 draw in favor of the teams Pirlo!
“For Blokhin!”
In the “Italy Azzurra” Andrea played against a team from Ukraine 3 times (it only on official matches of the first teams matches for the youth team or friendly matches do not believe), and won three times. First, in the quarterfinals of the 2006 world Cup, when his teammates defeated the team of Oleg Blokhin with the score 3:0 and few days later became world Champions!
And after Pirlo helped his team twice to beat Ukraine in the qualifying tournament for Euro 2008: 2:0 in Rome and 2:1 in Kiev.
Hello To Shakhtar!
At club level Pirlo has got “to the miner” with which his Milan twice met in the Champions League.
The result: 4:0 and 1:0 in 2004-m to year, and even worse 4:1 and 3:0 in 2007. In these games on account of Pirlo multiple assists partners.
In 2012, Pirlo again played against Shakhtar in the Champions League, but Juventus’. The result: 1:1 in Turin and 1:0 in Donetsk in favor of Juve.
By the way, is very interesting: in “Milan” Pirlo for 10 seasons and only won 2 Italian championship titles. But in Juventus for 4 seasons became the champion… all 4 times! And Ukraine “revenge” Andrea in 2012 when his team of Italy lost in the final of Euro 2012 in Kiev at the Olympic stadium of the Spanish national team – 0:4.
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