Elegant is the word that most readily springs to mind when thinking of Andrea Pirlo the player. In his autobiography, I Think Therefore I Play, he comes across as rather more quirky and occasionally even oddball than elegant. It’s no surprise to find that he has strong thoughts on how the game should be played and also on some social issues surrounding it.
Andrea Pirlo (born 19 May 1979) is an Italian professional footballer who plays for Italian Serie A club Juventus and the Italian national team. Pirlo is a free-kick specialist. He was also elected as part of the UEFA Euro 2012 Team of the Tournament, after leading Italy to thefinal, winning three man of the match awards in the process, the most of any player along with Andrés Iniesta. He …show more content…
Away games in Italy are not less than a nightmare. The windows of buses are blacked-out in which players travel to stadium. Pirlo quoted “Smoke bombs, tear gas, sticks, rocks, bolts, plates... we’ve had everything thrown at us in our time”. There were also incidents like hundreds of people throwing insults outside the hotels in which players are staying, objects thrown on the buses in which plyers travel to stadium etc. In one of the incident, Kwadwo Asamoah, was lucky to be safe when a brick struck the glass window of the bus. Stadium authorities have not installed CCTV in most of stadiums and also they don’t maintain the record of who is sitting on which seat. If Pirlo was a politician, he says that he would build mini prision on the stadium like they have in English grounds. If someone’s acting up, stick them inside; don’t give them a good kicking then immediately release …show more content…
Fortunately, it is a marginal problem in football, thanks to CONI (The Italian Olympic Committee) and UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) representatives who makes players undergo various surprise tests. Also FIFA uses various measures to avoid doping among players. The biological passport was introduced in the 2014 FIFA World Cup; blood and urine samples from all players before the competition and from two players per team and per match were analysed by the Swiss Laboratory for Doping Analyses. Pirlo quoted “doping’s a disease I’ll never catch and yet it scares the life out of
Andrea Pirlo (born 19 May 1979) is an Italian professional footballer who plays for Italian Serie A club Juventus and the Italian national team. Pirlo is a free-kick specialist. He was also elected as part of the UEFA Euro 2012 Team of the Tournament, after leading Italy to thefinal, winning three man of the match awards in the process, the most of any player along with Andrés Iniesta. He …show more content…
Away games in Italy are not less than a nightmare. The windows of buses are blacked-out in which players travel to stadium. Pirlo quoted “Smoke bombs, tear gas, sticks, rocks, bolts, plates... we’ve had everything thrown at us in our time”. There were also incidents like hundreds of people throwing insults outside the hotels in which players are staying, objects thrown on the buses in which plyers travel to stadium etc. In one of the incident, Kwadwo Asamoah, was lucky to be safe when a brick struck the glass window of the bus. Stadium authorities have not installed CCTV in most of stadiums and also they don’t maintain the record of who is sitting on which seat. If Pirlo was a politician, he says that he would build mini prision on the stadium like they have in English grounds. If someone’s acting up, stick them inside; don’t give them a good kicking then immediately release …show more content…
Fortunately, it is a marginal problem in football, thanks to CONI (The Italian Olympic Committee) and UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) representatives who makes players undergo various surprise tests. Also FIFA uses various measures to avoid doping among players. The biological passport was introduced in the 2014 FIFA World Cup; blood and urine samples from all players before the competition and from two players per team and per match were analysed by the Swiss Laboratory for Doping Analyses. Pirlo quoted “doping’s a disease I’ll never catch and yet it scares the life out of