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#2 Andrea Pirlo
“I strike dead balls ala Pirlo. Each shot bears my name and they are my children. They look like one another without being twins, even if they do boast the same South American twins.”
This is how the Juventus man describes his free-kicks. The Italian is one of the classiest players on the pitch and one of the most subtly witty people in the world of football.
He is so cool and composed that he “doesn’t give a toss about it [pressure]” and “I spent the afternoon of Sunday, 9 July, 2006, in Berlin sleeping and playing the PlayStation and in the evening I went out and won the World Cup.”
His quotes might not get the attention that Zlatan’s do, but they are equally interesting and charming. It’s like an exact reflection of his nature on the pitch: doing his job while staying under the radar.
“If I look in the mirror when I get up, or before going to bed at night, I see a man of average ugliness with stubble, an unruly mane of hair, a squint nose, slightly protruding ears and bags under my eyes – but I also see a man who’s completely happy with the figure staring back at him.”
