Andrea Pirlo, the 33-year-old Italian midfield maestro, has been the most valuable player at Euro 2012 and his performance against England solidified why. The Juventus player was able to carve paths ...

On a cool morning north of Johannesburg two years ago, we all waited for Andrea Pirlo. It was Italy's last training session before their final bows of a colourless World Cup title defence, and with ...

The Andrea Pirlo exhibition at Euro 2012 began with a drop of the shoulder and an exquisite pass to set up Antonio Di Natale for Italy's opening goal of the tournament. The Pirlo show opened against ...

This is a series re-assessing the most famous individual performances of the modern era. Some will be legendary displays by established world-class players, others will be once-in-a-lifetime cameos ...

WARSAW, Poland — Andrea Pirlo twirled around defenders effortlessly, and even cleared a ball off the line. On both sides of the field, it was Pirlo that provided the inspiration. The Italy playmaker ...

Because he's everything I'm not -- short, Italian, athletically gifted, possessed of magnificent hair and Bon Jovian good looks, with the resting pulse of a safecracker -- Andrea Pirlo had captured my ...

While many in his native Italy may well have been fully aware of the then 21 year old, it was in a very different guise to the one on display that April afternoon in 2001 at the Stadio delle Alpi in ...

Former England international goalkeeper Joe Hart has revealed what was going through his mind when Italy legend Andrea Pirlo chipped him from the penalty spot in the quarter-final shootout at EURO ...

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