Profil Andrea Pirlo

Andrea Pirlo Bios :

Full name : Andrea Pirlo
Date of birth :19 May 1979 (1979-05-19) (age 31)
Place of birth : Flero, Lombardy, Italy
Height : 1.77 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Playing position : Midfielder
Current club : Milan
Number : 21

Youth career :

1994–1995 Brescia
Senior career :
1995–1998 Brescia 47 (6)
1998–2001 Internazionale 22 (0)
1999–2000 Reggina (loan) 29 (6)
2001 Brescia (loan) 10 (0)
2001 Milan 277 (32)

National team :

1998–2002 Italy U-21 37 (15)
2000–2004 Olympic Italy 9 (1)
2002– Italy 70 (9)

Club career :

Pirlo was born in the province of Brescia. His brother Ivan plays for a Serie C2 club in Brescia. Pirlo made his debut for Brescia against Reggina. After breaking into the Brescia first team, Pirlo was spotted by Internazionale coach, Mircea Lucescu who signed the playmaker. However, Pirlo was unable to break into the first squad and Internazionale finished 8th in the 1998-99 Serie A campaign. Pirlo was shipped off on loan to the club he made his debut against in 1995, Reggina. After an impressive season he returned to Internazionale but was once again unable to break into the first squad making just 4 league appearances and spent the second half of the season on loan at former club, Brescia.
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Andrea Pirlo warming up with A.C. Milan against Fiorentina.

After 3 seasons on the Internazionale books, Pirlo was sold to fierce rivals, Milan for 35 billion Italian lire[6] (about €18 million) but part of the fees paid via Dražen Brnčić joined Inter. That transfer windows the two clubs has also swapped Cristian Brocchi for Guly; Paolo Ginestra for Matteo Bogani. The deals later reported by press were also aimed to create "false profit" by inflating the transfer fees in the swap deal, which Ginestra and Bogani both created €3.5million "profit" for both clubs but in terms of registration rights, while Brnčić created a lurid €9.6 million gain.[7][8]

It was at AC Milan where he found his true strides developing into a world class player. With Milan, he has won one Scudetto and two Champions League titles. He also won an Italian Cup and two UEFA Super Cups with Milan in 2003 and 2007. However, his most forgettable incident was the penalty miss during 2005 UEFA Champions League Final, as he found his spot kick was saved by Jerzy Dudek.

Pirlo started his career as an offensive midfielder until coach Carlo Ancelotti developed for him a deep-seated playmaking role at Milan. Since then, he has formed a formidable partnership with Gennaro Gattuso in the midfield and has earned the nickname "the metronome" for the way he sets the team's rhythm.[9] He led Serie A in the 2002–2003 season in four special categories, passes played (2589), ball possession (123 hours played and 39 minutes), successful balls (661) and successful passes (2093). This implies that he averaged almost 90 passes per game. He led Milan in minutes played for the 2006–07 season with 2,782. In October 2007, he was nominated for the 2007 FIFA World Player of the Year Award but it went to Milan teammate Kaká instead. After Kaka and coach Carlo Ancelotti left Milan in the summer of 2009, Chelsea tested Milan's resolve by bidding $12m and Claudio Pizarro for Pirlo. The club rejected the offer and Pirlo was said to be contemplating a transfer request.[citation needed] On 5 August, Berlusconi decided not to sell Pirlo who said he was overjoyed and wanted to end his career at Milan.[10] On 21 October, Pirlo scored a brilliant 30 meter goal in Milan's 3–2 win over Real Madrid.