With long flowing hair, handsome face, gentle movements, wonderful arcs, precise landing points, and the celebration of kissing the ring after the goal, Pirlo made football elegant, became picturesque and artistic and beautiful, and playing like Pirlo became the most wonderful fantasy of countless football teenagers. Maybe he's not as accomplished as Ronaldo and Zidane, but his difference will always stay in the minds of the fans and never fade!
It is often said that football is the sport of poor children, but Pirlo proved to people that football has the same attraction to the prince, born in a rich Italian family, Pirlo fell in love with football without hesitation under the obstruction of his father, and later with the support of his uncle, Pirlo embarked on the road of football.
He was a young football genius who made his debut at Brescia at the age of 16, bringing the 19-year-old Pirlo to Milan City for $600 in 1998, and in 2000, the 21-year-old Pirlo led the Italian U21 team to win the European Youth Championship that year, and he himself won the Golden Ball (Best Player) and Golden Boot (Top Scorer) of that tournament.
Although talented, but his football path is not as smooth as expected, the first time he entered the big club he did not shine as people expected, although the then Inter coach Gigi Simeone admired Pirlo and gave him a lot of exercise opportunities, but he made 18 appearances for Inter without scoring, because the unstable Inter could not wait for Pirlo's growth, so he loaned him to Regina, Pirlo began to drift, in the summer of 2001, Andrea Pirlo began to drift. Pirlo came to AC Milan through the exchange of players from two Milan city clubs. However, AC Milan also has a lot of attacking players in the squad, and Pirlo's play space is very limited, which once made the outside world think that he was not suitable for AC Milan. Perhaps just as the jewel needs to be embedded in a crown to be more glamorous, Pirlo also needs to find his own position to burst out of his potential, and in the 2002/2003 season, under carlo's transformation, Ancelot transformed into a back,with Gnareau Ivan Gattuso forming the midfield of AC Milan. He began his illustrious career, and Ancelotti's transformation of Pirlo was also called the "Great Retreat".
In the 2003–04 season, Pirlo helped the team win the Serie A title, he became the core of AC Milan's midfield, and he and Gattuso are considered the best midfield combination in the world. Although he has been famous for a long time, perhaps related to his low-key personality, Pirlo has for a long time felt hidden behind the fame, when people talk about the glory days of Milan in the 21st century, people will think of Kaka, Shevchenko, Inzaghi, Maldini, Nesta, and when it comes to Italy, which won the 2006 World Cup, people also remember Cannavaro, Materazzi, Grosso and Totti, few people will think of Pirlo, So in 2007, when people were in the public opinion that Kaka was the well-deserved world footballer of the year, Lippi came out to complain about his love, he said that Pirlo should win the world footballer, because Lippi felt that whether Italy won the World Cup in 2006 or the 2007 AC Milan Champions League, Pirlo was absolutely indispensable, the old man's point of view is not empty, the 2006 World Cup semi-finals are relying on Pirlo's great assists to knock on the door of victory for the Italian team. In the final against France, Pirlo also assisted Materazzi with a corner assist, and in this tournament, Andrea Pirlo won the best player in the competition in three matches and won the third place in the World Cup Ball of Gold (bronze ball award), and the 2006/2007 Champions League final was also reflected by Pirlo's main set-piece on Inzaghi, which opened the record for AC Milan.
Pirlo's first association with the word "leader" should be the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, when Italy was in an awkward phase of not catching up, as the team's strongest and biggest star, Pirlo was considered a well-deserved leader, when due to injury, Pirlo missed the first two group games of Italy, until the last life-and-death battle against Slovakia on the seventieth minute, although the situation was immediately reversed after the game, italy was turned around, However, in the end, it was unable to return to heaven, and Italy was eliminated from the group stage. And more Chinese fans know that Pirlo may be through the "World Football" in the summer of 2011, the production of the album "Pirlo: Silent Leader", this summer he bid farewell to Milan City, joined Juventus, also ushered in the second spring of his career, became a well-deserved master of football art, in Juve, as the core of the team, he led the team to start the road of rejuvenation, completed the hegemony of the fourth consecutive Serie A championship, and led the team to the Champions League final in the last season of Juve's career; in the national team, In the 2012 European Championship, he led civilian Italy all the way through the barrier in the case of not being optimistic, and in the semi-final, he defeated the German chariot in the middle of the day, continuing the unbeaten record against Germany, although the 2014 World Cup in Brazil led Italy to fold again in the group stage, leaving a lot of regrets, but in the eyes of the fans, he performed well enough, his contribution was great enough, he is the king of Italian football.
Time is always moving forward, no one can stop the pace of time, all the good will pass, all people will grow old, so when the 2015 Champions League final is over, when Pirlo and Xavi, the two football masters, hug each other tightly, it is both a farewell to each other and a farewell to fans all over the world. After the end of the 2014/2015 season, Pirlo joined the MLB (Major League Soccer), where after two seasons, Pirlo announced his retirement after the end of the 2017 MLB, and since then, there will be no Pirlo on the court, but he will always remain in the memory of fans!