10 best excerpts from Andrea Pirlo's 'I Think, Therefore I Play'

#9 ‘The best ideas come about in moments of total concentration....’

Pirlo’s penchant for jokes extends to all kinds of humour, and he is not shy to include jokes about the human excreta in his book. They come by the plethora, and leave readers wanting more because of his extraordinarily apt sense of joke placement.

While talking about how he devised his own technique for hitting freekicks, which he did by studying Juninho’s hits, Pirlo refers to his personal Eureka moment in the following paragraph from chapter 16:

‘The best ideas come about in moments of total concentration, a state you can reach when shitting, as Filippo Inzaghi will attest. My own Eureka moment arrived when I was sat on the toilet. Hardly romantic, but there you go.’

Indeed.