Personal Life
Pirlo was born in Flero, Lombardy, Italy. His brother Ivan plays for a Serie C2 club in Brescia. Andrea Pirlo and his wife Deborah Roversi married in 2001 and have two children: son Niccolò (born 2003) and daughter Angela (born 2006). In early years a rumour started that Andrea Pirlo descended from the Sinti, a Gypsy population, who lived in the north of Italy in the last century. Pirlo has always denied this but before Euro 2008 some organisations asked him not to play with the Azzurri in order to protest against the status of Roma and Sinti people in Italy. Pirlo's father founded a metal trading company in Brescia in 1982 called Elg Steel. Andrea Pirlo himself retains a stake in the family business. With regards to his wealth from his family business and footballing career, Pirlo stated in an interview with Italian Vanity Fair magazine that he never talks about money.
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