Andrea Pirlo Thread

[Casualista]

What a gem of a picture:

G telling xavi what a great player he is and making him blush.

G really has a hardon for your brilliance doesnt he xavi?

 

[jammin]

was it xavi's mom that prevented us from buying him?

 

[Casualista]

she saw the future and how much better barca will be and also become the most dominant in europe soon. Never argue with a mother's intuition.

But you can tell from g's face that he wanted xavi bad.

 

[jammin]

if we had xavi, we might have ended up most dominant as well.

wait a minute... i know what you're doing... fuck xavi yo!

 

[Casualista]

if we had xavi, we might have ended up most dominant as well.

he is just the most beautiful machine isnt he? Self sufficient, efficient always an asset and never a burden.

I am 100% convinced had he come to milan he would never leave. Ever. he just looks like the guy who can get attatched to a single place with passion.

 

[jammin]

he is just the most beautiful machine isnt he? Self sufficient, efficient always an asset and never a burden.

I am 100% convinced had he come to milan he would never leave. Ever. he just looks like the guy who can get attatched to a single place with passion.

debatable. think he would have left us if we started struggling and he was benched.

more importantly, that Montolivo guy looks like he can be the new old Pirlo rite?

 

[Casualista]

debatable. think he would have left us if we started struggling and he was benched.

No i dont think so. Barca have had their fair share ups and downs. Remember how bad they had become at the end of rijkaard era? While others like eto'o complained he stayed. Not to forget that he was pretty much always benched under rijkaard for deco but did he leave? No.

But maybe he would leave if barca came calling. But you can forgive that if his hometown team wants him right? But he is a fighter. He would fight for his place in the squad.

more importantly, that Montolivo guy looks like he can be the new old Pirlo rite?

ummm no. Pirlo is much better than montolivo. We need to see what allegri can do with him but montolivo just isnt up there with pirlo.

 

[jammin]

No i dont think so. Barca have had their fair share ups and downs. Remember how bad they had become at the end of rijkaard era? While others like eto'o complained he stayed. Not to forget that he was pretty much always benched under rijkaard for deco but did he leave? No.

But maybe he would leave if barca came calling. But you can forgive that if his hometown team wants him right? But he is a fighter. He would fight for his place in the squad.

when did we try to buy Xavi? wasn't it after the rijkaard era ended?

ummm no. Pirlo is much better than montolivo.

yea but with Allegri's miracle making skills, you never know.

tbh, i feel as tho we don't really need a deep-lying playmaker as TS can hurl forward those long balls well enough, not Pirlo standard, but still good.

 

[Casualista]

when did we try to buy Xavi? wasn't it after the rijkaard era ended?


yea but with Allegri's miracle making skills, you never know.

Ummm no. I believe he was just a teenager back then. Could be wrong. But his class was evident since he was a kid.

I dont mind whether we hurl balls or go intricate as long montolivo can link up plays and be a creative mind. He wont be a liability in front of defence without body guards but his passing just isnt that good if he was played as regista. I would prefer him to play LCM.

 

[jammin]

really? i must be thinking of someone else than.

edit: yea it was when Xavi was 19 years old. source - tribal shit

yes i agree montolivo should be utilized further forward as well. allegri tho seems to have hinted that he will be used in the regista role.

 

[Nestafan]

really? i must be thinking of someone else than.

edit: yea it was when Xavi was 19 years old. source - tribal shit

yes i agree montolivo should be utilized further forward as well. allegri tho seems to have hinted that he will be used in the regista role.

I love that SIG

 

[jammin]

can't wait to see how Pirlo does at the EUROs. think he's going to shine considering he's gonna play in a similar midfield as he does with Juve (they're starting with Marchioso and De Rossi rite?).

but Pirlo+Cassano doesn't strike to me as a great combination. Cassano isn't exactly the best receiver of a long ball considering his size and he doesn't make runs like a pure striker as well.

who will be the other striker?

 

[Nestafan]

Pirlo is the only Juve player i hope plays well at the Euros.

 

[Casualista]

can't wait to see how Pirlo does at the EUROs. think he's going to shine considering he's gonna play in a similar midfield as he does with Juve (they're starting with Marchioso and De Rossi rite?).

but Pirlo+Cassano doesn't strike to me as a great combination. Cassano isn't exactly the best receiver of a long ball considering his size and he doesn't make runs like a pure striker as well.

who will be the other striker?

dafuq u talking about?

Just trust my footballing expertise.

 

[jammin]

i stand corrected.

think i can reveal that i only watched italy-spain in recent times.

 

[Jasper]

Andrea Pirlo's peerless pass-mastery could lift even the Trentside fog

Juventus's pageant with Notts County and the title–winning form of their regista epitomise a fine moment for the Old Lady

Richard Williams
Richard Williams
guardian.co.uk, Monday 14 May 2012 23.33 BST

Andrea Pirlo has shown up Milan's lack of appreciation of his talents by steering Juventus to the Serie A title. Photograph: Stefano Rellandini/Reuters

The first time I saw Andrea Pirlo was on a cold and fog-shrouded November evening in Monza in 2000, when he was a member of the Italy Under-21 team sent out to confront Howard Wilkinson's England selection. Only 11 minutes had been played when the referee abandoned the match but since that night Pirlo's quality has illuminated every ground on which he has played, and none more so than Juventus's new stadium, where he and his team-mates celebrated the Serie A championship on Sunday.

A byword for graceful creativity, Pirlo has been the most influential midfield player in Europe this season, bar none. Last summer he left Milan, his home for 10 glittering years in which, mostly under Carlo Ancelotti, he won two European Cups, two Uefa Super Cups, one Fifa Club World Cup and two Italian league titles, and where he had intended to finish his career. But Massimiliano Allegri, Ancelotti's latest successor, wanted to install a different sort of influence in the position Pirlo had made his own, at the base of midfield: someone more physical, more aggressive, such as Mark van Bommel or Massimo Ambrosini.

A one-year extension was the best Milan could offer when Pirlo's contract expired. The player reckoned that, at 32, three more years would be about right. Milan declined his suggestion and probably no greater misjudgment has been made since Real Madrid sold Claude Makélélé to make room for David Beckham. Once it became known that Pirlo was on the market, Juventus snapped him up. Their new coach, Antonio Conte, himself a former international midfield player of great distinction, saw Pirlo as the foundation of the side he was building to go with the club's new home.

Last September the stadium was inaugurated with a stylish gala. Following the speeches and the presentation of great figures associated with the club's history, from Giampiero Boniperti to Edgar Davids, a game took place between Conte's new team and Notts County, the current representatives of the club who, back in 1903, sent Juventus a set of the black and white striped shirts in which they have played ever since.

When you think of all the famous clubs who would have happily accepted such an invitation, the Barcelonas and Manchester Uniteds and Bayern Munichs, this was a gesture of great historical sensitivity on the part of Andrea Agnelli, Juve's 36-year-old president, the fourth member of his family to hold the post. It came in response to a tentative call from Jim Rodwell, Notts's chief executive, wanting to ask Juventus to help mark this year's 150th anniversary of the world's oldest professional football club. Certainly, Agnelli responded, but why don't you join our celebrations first?

And so it came to pass that the players and officials of a club in the third tier of the English game found themselves on a private jet and in a five-star hotel, all at the expense of hosts for whom their ancestors had done a small favour more than a century earlier. For that, as much as for anything else, I reckon Juventus fully deserve their success in recapturing the Serie A title, the reward for a deed of outstanding dignity and generosity.

Others will conclude that Juve's success in remaining unbeaten throughout the entire league season was more to do with the quality of Pirlo's passing. As he did for year after year in Milan's colours, the newcomer made himself constantly available to his team-mates, always there to receive the ball and move it on in the most relevant direction. He was compass and metronome rolled into one, and he did not get injured or suspended.

As the very promising Conte showed the extent of his tactical imagination by shuffling his team's formation from an initial 4-2-4 to 4-1-4-1, then to 4-2-3-1, and finally to an alternation between 4-3-3 and 3-5-2, Pirlo remained the keystone, utterly reliable and seemingly ageless. Only the colour of the stripes had changed.

Pirlo began his career as a classic No10, an attacking midfielder in the mould of Gianni Rivera or the young Roberto Baggio. The role did not quite suit him and it was while he was on loan from Internazionale, his first big club, back to Brescia, where he had started out, that the veteran coach Carlo Mazzone identified a new, deeper position from which he could direct the play. He became what Italians call a regista. Not having a word for it, we borrow a term from American football: the quarterback. Xabi Alonso and Paul Scholes are pretty good exponents but no one in recent times has come close to Pirlo's calm mastery and next month he will be a key figure in Cesare Prandelli's Italy at the Euro 2012 finals.

And so on Wednesday, four days before their team conclude a highly successful season with an appearance in the Coppa Italia final against Napoli, Agnelli and his fellow directors will open their new club museum, located in the Juventus Stadium (which really deserves a more resonant name). Among their guests will be Ray Trew, Notts County's owner, who rescued the club from their latest flirtation with oblivion two years ago, and Jim Rodwell. With their own anniversary functions already under way, the pair will be hoping to bring back news of a return fixture with the new champions of Italy before the start of next season. Imagine it: Andrea Pirlo at Meadow Lane. Just as long as the Trentside fog holds off …

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/may/14/andrea-pirlo-juventus-notts-county

 

[jammin]

anyone else found it interesting Allegri opted NOT to use a man-marker against Pirlo and instead try and cut off his possible passing options in the 2-2?

 

[Casualista]

anyone else found it interesting Allegri opted NOT to use a man-marker against Pirlo and instead try and cut off his possible passing options in the 2-2?

I found it interesting that Pirlo played his best against us when seedorf was on the pitch. Seedorf's lack of work rate combined with the work rate of juve mid field really showed. I still believe we played best in that 1-1 at san siro when emanuelson , van bommel, muntari and nocerino played. We werent losing the mid field battle because of the high work rate unlike the other games.

 

[jammin]

I found it interesting that Pirlo played his best against us when seedorf was on the pitch. Seedorf's lack of work rate combined with the work rate of juve mid field really showed. I still believe we played best in that 1-1 at san siro when emanuelson , van bommel, muntari and nocerino played. We werent losing the mid field battle because of the high work rate unlike the other games.

in the first half of the 2-2, our players (except for Pato i think) ran their asses off - work rate was phenomenal (considering our usual standards).
too bad we were way too fatigued from Europe and it showed in the second half.

cunte has created a very very effective system to supplement pirlo with all those hard-workers and midfield. must give him credit.

 

[Casualista]

in the first half of the 2-2, our players (except for Pato i think) ran their asses off - work rate was phenomenal (considering our usual standards).
too bad we were way too fatigued from Europe and it showed in the second half.

cunte has created a very very effective system to supplement pirlo with all those hard-workers and midfield. must give him credit.

i think u are talking about 1-1? cuz pato didnt play in coppa italia 2-2.

 

[jammin]

i think u are talking about 1-1? cuz pato didnt play in coppa italia 2-2.

yea you're right.

two fails in one day.

i really need some sleep.

 

[naive_harry]

I hate this thread, I hate pirlo

 

[jammin]

@milanello

Allegri: "I used Pirlo on the left side of midfield because he often got marked out of the game when he was playing in the center."

 

[Ashish]

@milanello

Allegri: "I used Pirlo on the left side of midfield because he often got marked out of the game when he was playing in the center."

bitch please that code was broken years ago

 

[Casualista]

@milanello

Allegri: "I used Pirlo on the left side of midfield because he often got marked out of the game when he was playing in the center."

 

[jammin]

laughing at allegri or pirlo?

srsly, i can't tell anymore.

 

[GreatKalu]

Well apparently Allegri missed the memo especially in the first game this season ...

 

[KujaIX]

Shots fired!

 

[Casualista]

laughing at allegri or pirlo?

srsly, i can't tell anymore.

at Ji-Sung park actually.

 

[Ashish]

at Ji-Sung park actually.

flamini

and

ozil


Allegri was talking about cl jube fans