During his career he won everything that could be won for a soccer player:

• 2 Champions League with AC Milan
• 1 Intercontinental Cup with AC Milan
• 2 Uefa Supercups with AC Milan
• 6 Serie A titles, 2 with AC Milan and 4 with Juventus FC
• 2 Italian Cups, one with AC Milan and one with Juventus FC
• 3 Italian Supercups, one with AC Milan and 2 with Juventus FC
• 1 World Cup in 2006 with the Italian National Team

He also made himself known as a young man winning in the under 21 European championship in 2000 and an Olympic bronze medal in 2004.

He has played in Brescia, Inter, Reggina, Milan and Juventus teams in Italian Championship and then finish his career until the season just finished this year overseas in the US Major League Soccer in New York City FC.

Great man inside and outside the field, never a word out of place, never any controversy, he always preferred to talk with his playing, really magical for all football lovers and getting the respect of any of his teammate or opponent.
An example to follow both as man and as player, future generations can be very lucky to have an example like this.

Person who appears simple and sincere, has become the star of many funny videos, in which ironize on his strange face that seems never change for any reason, remaining passionless in front of everything, even funny his deep voice with which manages to always use the exact same tonality.

Every football lover will agree to be able to consider him as a champion, a true genius who should be thanked for all the emotions he has been able to give to his fans and not only, was for them during more than twenty years he has been the essence of football.

His role of the playmaker is HIS role, very particular and fundamental in the hegemony of the game of a team. A delicate and extremely difficult job, he has never been gifted with great speed, his strong point has always been his feet, simply fairies. Able with them to carry out millimeter pitches from all possible positions of the field and to direct them exactly on the feet of his teammate wherever they were. More unique event than one that was wrong. Author of hundreds of assists, never considered at the levels of the goals in world of football, in reality they are equally effective and essential. A man at the service of the team. Many numbers where he managed to elude any opponent without particular problems with his peculiar use of the body.

His often lethal from distance shots that were nicknamed dead leaf or damned, because of the strange effect that took the ball that raise in the air and then suddenly descend going on the door.

He was magistral on freekicks, in his career he scored 28, and together with Sinisa Mihajlovic, as the greatest scorer of the Italian league of all time in this specialty. He was able to score from all the possible positions outside the penalty area, a sniper who invented amazing trajectories very often directed in the most difficult corner to reach, usually on 7.

Number 7 symbolizes the highest corners of the door which resemble the highest part to the right of the number from where the name was taken.

Author of some spectacular penalties scored with extreme talent using the famous spoon, which consists of kicking gently with the foot the lower part of the ball and be able to raise it with a straight downward trajectory inside the center of the door, succeeding in mocking the goalkeeper who didn't expects it.

Among his most amazing assists I can remember that in 2001 to Roberto Baggio, both players of Brescia, against the Juventus, Andrea , then still a boy, is on the circle of the midfield and with a spectacular lob fining the Divin Codino that on the edge of the offside took the ball and finds himself alone in front of the goalkeeper, he surpass him and easily puts the ball on the net. Goals that I remember very well as I was in the stands of the Delle Alpi Stadium of Turin. Action to say the least phenomenal that allows the homeway team to equalize the game at 86 '.

His last goal with the AC Milan in 2010 against Parma was a real pearl: from 38 meters distance after a couple of numbers Andrea manages to unmark and throw a shot very tight on the door, the ball seems to have to head just above the door, in reality at the last moment it goes down and goes directly on 7 to the left of the opposing goalkeeper.

Another goal that will remain forever in my memory is that against Torino made in 2014 when he was laying for Juventus: is the 93' the game stopped on 1-1 score, Pirlo strikes in midfield and proposes approaching the area, is served to perfection by a teammate, at that point shot from the 28 meters of distance and goes into the bottom corner to the right of the goalkeeper of Torino. Thanks to him, Juventus will win that game that seemed destined to end in a draw.

Really difficult not to remember the World Cup in Germany where he was able to help the Italian team to raise for the fourth time the World Cup at the Olympiastadion in Berlin thanks to its magic. He was one of the finalists of the Penalties taker disputed against France, a penalty that managed to score with his usual class. His all-field race constantly moving his arms back and forward with his fists to the sky is an image that we will hardly be able to remove from my mind of that wonderful day.

Yesterday, May 21, 2018, was playing his last game in this world, some time ago was asking many football players to participate, there was players still in activity or which have already finished them careers, people who found himself as teammates, champions of the caliber of Gianluigi Buffon, Nelson Dida , Andrea Barzagli, Leonardo Bonucci, Marcos Cafu, Fabio Cannavaro, Giorgio Chiellini, Ciro Ferrara, Fabio Grosso, Paolo Maldini, Marco Materazzi, Alessandro Nesta, Serginho, Gianluca Zambrotta, Demetrio Albertini, Mauro German Camoranesi, Daniele De Rossi, Gennaro Gattuso, Frank Lampard, Javier Zanetti, Leonardo, Claudio Marchisio, Manuel Rui Costa, Clarence Seedorf, Hernan Crespo, Carlos Tevez, Alessandro Del Piero, Filippo Inzaghi, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Andriy Shevchenko, Luca To ni, Francesco Totti, Christian Vieri and Roberto Baggio.

Excellent coaches have also been invited who have had the pleasure of finding him in their teams in his golden years: Massimiliano Allegri, Carlo Ancelotti and Antonio Conte and two others who have been his teammate, Roberto Donadoni and Mauro Tassotti.

The choice of this day isn't a casual day, is the day in which he made his first match in Serie A on Brescia in 1995.

Yesterday we have admire him for one last time at the San Siro stadium in Milan, together with many of his friends for the last time, a friendly match that has give us so many emotions and beautiful memories of this champion that we will bring to our sports heart in the future.

The light of this brilliant star was turn off, but its skills will remain forever illuminating the football.

Thanks for reading and viewing, see you next time!✌️