Must Read: Italy Legend Andrea Pirlo Talks About his Addiction to Football on PlayStation! Yeah! He Loves it Just Like Every One of Us

The list of things we didn't know about Andrea Pirlo before include: how funny he is; how close he came to big transfers to Real Madrid, Barcelona and Chelsea; and how much he loves playing football on the PlayStation.

Pirlo never makes it clear whether he's a FIFA man, or down with ProEvo. Whatever he's playing, though, he's playing hard.

"After the wheel, the PlayStation is the best invention of all time." "I don't feel pressure. I spent the afternoon of Sunday, July 9, 2006, in Berlin sleeping and playing the PlayStation. In the evening, I won the World Cup." "I can't say with any certainty how many virtual matches I've played over the last few years but, roughly speaking, it must be at least four times the number of real ones." "I sat down with Allesandro Nesta: friend, team-mate, brother, roomie. At half-time in one of our never-ending football games on the PlayStation, I confessed all: 'Sandro, I'm leaving.'"

"Pirlo v Nesta was a classic duel back in our Milanello days. We'd get in early, have breakfast at 9am and then shut ourselves in our room and hit the PlayStation until 11. Training would follow, then we'd be back on the computer games until four in the afternoon. Truly a life of sacrifice."

"Our head-to-heads were pure adrenaline. I'd go Barcelona and so would Sandro. Barca v Barca. The first player I'd pick was the quickest one, Samuel Eto'o, but I'd still end up losing a lot of the time.

I'd get pissed off and hurl away my controller before asking Sandro for a rematch. And then I'd lose again."