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tyouto

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Aug 8, 2011
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After watching the 2-0 win over Atalanta, Capello observed of Pirlo: "I'm amazed that Milan let him go. I still don't understand it. You can always get it wrong when you're buying a player but not when you are letting one go."
"I restrict myself to the dressing room and to the pitch, those are my boundaries," he told La Stampa in one of his rare interviews last summer. "I'm not interested in anything else. I don't like doing interviews, I don't like going on TV programmes. I do not have a Facebook page and I do not chat on Twitter. I don't have a website, even if there are people who have opened one in my name, complete with my photo..."
Not for nothing, Pirlo himself admit that one of the few comments made about him that he actually likes is one from seven years ago by his World Cup-winning ltaly coach, Marcello Lippi who told La Repubblica: "Pirlo is a silent leader on the pitch. His feet do the talking for him."
"They can play me wherever they like but I feel that I am a No10, the man who controls all the traffic, even if I have never actually worn that shirt. I started with the 21 at Brescia and I have stuck with that."
"To be useful in defence, to win back the ball, you don't always have to go sliding into the tackle. It also about your positioning. Sometimes all you have to do is take a step back."
"The secret for someone in my position is to keep simple. Keep possession and keep the ball moving quickly so that you tire out your opponents. That's my method."
Little wonder that when Lippi was asked by Gazzetta dello Sport about this season's Juve, he spoke enthusiastical about the excellent transfer market campaign conducted by the club last summer. "Pirlo, of course, was the outstanding purchase," he said. "I have been talking to the Juventus defenders and they tell me that, by comparison with the last few seasons, they feel a lot more comfortable knowing that they have a reference point in midfield, someone they can give the ball to, certain that he will do something good with it even if he has got three guys on top of him."
 
Aug 1, 2003
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"I have been talking to the Juventus defenders and they tell me that, by comparison with the last few seasons, they feel a lot more comfortable knowing that they have a reference point in midfield, someone they can give the ball to, certain that he will do something good with it even if he has got three guys on top of him."

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Raz

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Nov 20, 2005
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I wish all players would have attitude like him - Pitch and locker room. No fucking social media, websites and tv stations. Just love the man, always did, and love him even more now.
 

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