Roja Directa Pirlo //top\\ - Tarjeta

It is a morbid curiosity. The red card doesn't stain Pirlo’s legacy; it enriches it. It proves that beneath the cool exterior of the bearded genius, there was a competitive animal. For 99.9% of his career, he used his brain. For that one second in 2015 against Napoli, he used his elbow.

He admitted that Albiol had been pulling his shirt and scratching him. "When the corner was taken, I tried to get away and my arm ended up hitting him in the face," Pirlo explained. "It was a red card, but I didn't mean to hurt him. I was just trying to free myself." tarjeta roja directa pirlo

After the match, which Juventus still managed to win 3-1 despite being down to ten men, Pirlo addressed the media. In his autobiography, I Think Therefore I Play , he later wrote extensively about this moment. It is a morbid curiosity

Andrea Pirlo, then 35, had recently returned from a muscle injury. He started on the bench, watching as a frenetic first half unfolded. When he entered the pitch in the 66th minute for Paul Pogba, the plan was to calm the game down, to use his vision to unlock Napoli’s defense. For 99