What are Pirlo’s greatest performances?

Hey Milanistas,

I’ve never really followed one particular football player before, but after watching Andrea Pirlo’s amazing performances in the World Cup, I’ve become an instant fan of him. I find him a truly fascinating player to watch. From the way he is really the mastermind behind most of the important plays, his beautiful passes all over the pitch, his intelligent decision-making on the field, his technical prowess, to his graceful style of play, not to mention his brilliant free kicks.
I guess I just love everything about him.
Although I’m not a massive football watcher, I’m still wondering why I’ve never really heard about how great he is. I just wish I had known about him before.

So since I’m fairly new to Pirlo and have never really followed him nor AC Milan in general all that much, I thought the experts over here could recommend me some of the games in which Pirlo has played his absolute best so far in his career. I’ve heard people claim that he has played his best during the 2002 & 2003 seasons at AC Milan. If you could just name some specific games in which he has shone the most, I would like to obtain those games as I intend to catch-up with what I have missed out on and I am very anxious to see his glorious performances of the past.

I would really appreciate it if you could help me discover the magnificence that is Andrea Pirlo.

Forza Pirlo!!

2002 - 2003 where we won the CL & Coppa Italia and 2003 - 2004 where we won the league where definately his best seasons for us.

I'll remember the league winning season mainly due to the goals he scored, he was knocking them in from all over the place, free-kicks, penalties, long range shots, he had everything.

I don't know where you would get individual games from though, maybe some goals or compilations from youtube ... other than that i don't know.

A small Pirlo compilation thanks to dabdob on XT

http://www.acmilanclub.com/site/modu...=getit&lid=862

Enjoy

deportivo 1st leg he was excellent in 03/04 like Jim said that was he's best season to date

He played a really wonderful WC.

6th January 2004. Roma 1-2 Milan. That was our greatest season in a long time. The year we lost to deportivo.

there was a game against lazio I remember watching and he was just breath-taking the whole game.

I think it was 1-0 with a sheva goal deciding it at the san siro in 2004/2005 (the rigged season)

Thanks for starting this thread! Pirlo is a magnificent and classy player and he's one of the reasons that brought me into soccer and Milan after the World Cup.


I did want to find out more about him and here are some nice articles:

Boy from Brescia
http://www.channel4.com/sport/footba...006/pirlo.html

The Adventures of Andrea Pirlo
http://www.e-sports.com/articles/984...rlo/Page1.html

There are a couple of videos here too:

Andrea Pirlo Unofficial Site
http://www.andreapirlo.com/en/video.asp

Wery nice thread PirloMagnificus,


Since Carlo took over Milan Pirlo has outstanding, he has played some great games for us, but what he did in the World Cup, that was just world class, 7 app. 1 goal and 4 ass, and 3 times MOM including semi final and the final itself, and they`re telling me Zidan wass better.
But if you`re asking for his best performances for us I would have to go back in 2002 when we need badly the points to get the 4 th place that meant Champions League (qual.). With RUi Costa playing poor that season,PIrlo took over at the last games of the season scoring from free kick agains Parma ( not sure) and in the very last game scoring against verona to win 2:1,we qualified for Champions League and we went till the end tha year. thats why those goals were so important.

Thanks for the video Vadim, very good job by dabdob.

Also, thanks for the links Arcy.

Apart from that penelty miss in the final (Istanbul) he has been excellent.
Unlike Steven Gerrard & David Beckham

I'm not sure why you need to mention those 2 players, there's no need for it.

Originally Posted by mzk57

Apart from that penelty miss in the final (Istanbul) he has been excellent.
Unlike Steven Gerrard & David Beckham

You accuse others of starting conversations about the EPL, yet you bring it up in almost every post. In case you've forgotten, Steven Gerrard was magnificent in the CL Final. Now don't start accusing me of being a Liverpool fan, I simply have respect for them. It doesn't mean I like them.

What a wonderful thread. The true unsung hero, the heartbeat of Milan. The good thing about Pirlo is he nearly always keeps Milan ticking over.

When he is on top form he is what moves Milan, but im happy to say that even when he had such a bad season like last year we still played well. Lets hope he has a better season this year.