Andrea Pirlo
Undoubtedly one of the best passers of a ball that the game has ever seen, Andrea Pirlo has lit up football with some many of his elegant touches throughout his glittering career. Far more than a footballer, the ex-Juventus man is a philosopher, a poet and someone who transcends the sport with a refined culture.
On his day, he reads the game like no-one else and has a certain panache that will be missed from the sport when he does eventually retire – which is precisely why we all need to drink in as much of his genius as possible while he’s still going. So, when news hit that he wouldn’t feature at the Euros, a lot of people were more than a little upset.
Sure, he is 37 years of age and has been away from the continental game for a while, but Pirlo is Pirlo and to be cheated of his presence just seems wrong.
It would be like watching a Champions League game where Cristiano Ronaldo doesn’t score or going to a Donald Trump rally and not hearing him say something really, really stupid. It’s just not right.
Why, only last season he was competing in a UCL final.
