Andrea Pirlo

Andrea Pirlo is the kind of footballer who makes you question whether the sport should even be played any other way. Watching him operate in the deep-lying playmaker role — first at Milan, then at Juventus, and for the Italian national team — felt less like watching a midfielder and more like watching someone conduct an orchestra from a park bench. The man barely seemed to break a sweat, yet somehow the ball always ended up exactly where it needed to be. His free kicks alone could fill a highlight reel, and his performance at Euro 2012 was the kind of thing you bookmark in your memory forever. Even his late-career move to New York City FC in MLS had a certain elegance to it — Pirlo doing Pirlo things, just with a different skyline behind him. Genuinely one of a kind.

Name (English)

Andrea Pirlo

Name (Japanese)

アンドレア・ピルロ

Reading

あんどれあ・ぴるろ

Born

May 19, 1979 (age 47)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Goat

Origin

Brescia, Lombardy, Italy

Height

177 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Awards & achievements

• 2004 Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
• 2006 Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/andreapirlo21/
• Xhttps://x.com/Pirlo_official
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%83%94%E3%83%AB%E3%83%AD

Tags

• Lombardy
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.