People just look at xavi and barcelona's wins and forget that they have the best midfield (iniesta, xavi, busquets, fabregas + spain silva , alonso, mata) All the midfielders xavi play with, will be the best midfielder if they are in any other team except pirlo. Sergio Busquets might seem the most obvious candidate, but Pirlo plays so deep it would suck the Barcelona man out of position and create space in behind him. Arguably only Andrea Pirlo in the modern game can rival him in being so niggardly with possession. He was the best and he went to our rivals. Both men are unflappable on the pitch, epitomised by Pirlo’s collection of Panenka-style penalties, including the one scored against England in Euro 2012 when he nonchalantly lobbed the ball gently into the centre of Joe Hart’s goal, the flailing keeper looking like a man who had slipped on some ice. “Iniesta is the most talented Spanish player in history,” Xavi insisted. The 33-year-old carried that swagger and belief into Italy's campaign at Euro 2012. Pirlo, Xavi o Iniesta? He said he offered up a prayer on his way to taking Italy’s first penalty in the shoot-out, reckoning there was a good chance he would get a positive response “because if God exists, there’s no way he’s French”. 1 Iniesta, 2 Xavi, 3 Pirlo y 4 Totti. More rejection ensued for Pirlo, however, when Milan refused to offer him more than a one-year contract in 2011; Pirlo, who was 32 at the time, thought he deserved three years. Pirlo made his Serie A debut at just 16 years of age in 1995 with his local club, Brescia, but once he moved to a bigger club – to Inter Milan in 1998 – he couldn’t crack it. Talk turned to two midfielders greatly admired by Xavi, his colleague for club and country Iniesta and Pirlo, who Xavi has watched from afar. Xavi likes to spend his downtime in the Pyrenees picking mushrooms. “But when I see Pirlo I think he’s wonderful. A calf injury may be partly to blame, but we haven't seen the best of him at Euro 2012. Fans of Juve like to parade around in T-shirts, adorned with his image and the reassurance: “Keep calm and pass it to Pirlo.” He is obsessive about space, like Xavi, but for more selfish reasons. Xavi’s talent had long been flagged at Barça. The "regista" reigned supreme. Someone calculated that the gematria values – where a numerical value is assigned to a letter – of Xavi (56) and pass (55) and they are almost identical. hace 7 años. As Jorge Valdano, one of the game’s great gurus, quipped “midfield is a good place to meet people”. Occasionally he's been otherworldly. "Pirlo is a great player who is capable of controlling any match.". Barcelona midfielder Xavi Hernández will move to Qatar next season. Pirlo has hinted that if Juventus were to win – in the city where he won the World Cup with Italy – he would consider it a perfect way to conclude his top-flight playing career, going out, as Enrique said in reference to Xavi, through la puerta grande, the big door. It seems he never loses possession. At times they've been labored, and only in glimpses have Spain given us the dynamic, imaginative forward play we've come to expect from tiki-taka during their reign. Barcelona midfielder Xavi Hernandez has revealed his thoughts on a number of players, including Lionel Messi, Andres Iniesta and Andrea Pirlo. Inicia sesión para responder preguntas Publicar; Anónimo. If Spain do press, they'll be vulnerable to counterattacks, and as Pirlo has shown time and again at Euro 2012, he can spark those in his sleep. Football Espana brings you up-to-the-minute news and views from the Spanish Primera Liga, brought to you by our enthusiastic and talented team. “Then there are midfielders not so valued in Spain, like Xabi Alonso and Sergio Busquets.”. Andrea Pirlo Ufficiale OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [anˈdrɛːa ˈpirlo]; born 19 May 1979) is an Italian professional football coach and former player who is the head coach of Serie A club Juventus.Considered to be one of the greatest deep-lying playmakers of all time, Pirlo was renowned for his vision, ball control, technique, creativity, passing, and free-kick ability. The late conversion of his critics in the media is something that still bristles with Xavi. Pirlo is a great player, but Xavi was the core player for the most dominant national team and the most dominant club side. The question for Spain is whether they deem Pirlo enough of a threat to dedicate a player to stopping him. He goes about the pitch, ball at his feet, with his head cocked, upright and swivelling like a periscope, scouting for a player in space to move the ball onto. “A midfielder continually on the lookout for an unspoilt corner where I can move freely just for a moment, without suffocating markers sticking to me like shadows. Dizziness set in whenever they spent too much time on his carousal – he proved that a team could both attack and defend by keeping hold of the ball. Hij tekende in mei 2018 bij Vissel Kobe, nadat hij in de voorgaande zestien seizoenen van zijn profcarrière uitkwam voor FC Barcelona.Iniesta was van 2006 tot en met 2018 international in het Spaans voetbalelftal, waarmee hij het EK 2008, het WK 2010 en het EK 2012 won. The world of football has possibly never known a man to distribute the ball like Xavi Hernández who for years – until more fleeting appearances this season – has been out-passing every other player in La Liga. When you have the likes of Pirlo, Daniele De Rossi, Xavi, Alonso and Iniesta operating in one space, sparks of inspiration are certain to fly in the final of Euro 2012. All I’m after is a few square metres to be myself. Photograph: David Ramos/Getty Images), Fans of Juventus like to parade around in T-shirts, adorned with his image and the reassurance: “Keep calm and pass it to Pirlo.” Photograph: Giuseppe Cacace/Getty Images. Pirlo wrote in his autobiography that he’d have “crawled on all fours” to join Barça, the team he chooses on his PlayStation, but Milan resisted their overtures. It was only when Frank Rijkaard signed Edgar Davids in January 2004 and pushed Xavi more forward (in contrast to the switch made by Pirlo) that Xavi found his niche and became the reference point for both Barça and Spain. Pirlo will go into the game as Euro 2012's best player. Other players have contributed fine individual performances—not least Mario Balotelli against Germany—but there's no question Pirlo's influence has been the defining element of Italy's progress at Euro 2012. Spain will be plotting a way to stop him in Sunday's final. And Pirlo could have a field day. If they slow things down against Italy, Spain will play right into their hands. Louis van Gaal gave him his Champions League debut – in a competition he has made more appearances in than any other player – against Manchester United in the autumn of 1998, a 3-3 draw in which the late equaliser came from a penalty kick by Luis Enrique, Xavi’s current manager. The peculiar thing about these two great playmakers is that they have been unloved for much of their careers.

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