Pirlo vs Xavi: 4 dimensions of comparison say it all

Pirlo and Harvey who has a higher historical status, before comparing the first said a few basic points, first of all, the age difference between the two is only half a year, and playing the same midfield position, however, the same belongs to the traditional European giants of the national team, in the club career has been the peak period of playing for the giants, the following four dimensions to compare the two people's historical status.

First of all, the first team honor, Pirlo career should have been considered a Grand Slam player, got the club national team a total of 18 trophies, but Harvey's honor is really more horrible, club plus national team more than 30 gold medals, once was the world's first person.

The second point of personal honor, Pirlo career has not been selected for the International Footballer or Ballon d'Or in the top three, and not too many times in the annual best lineup, but this point Harvey is the strength of the crushing. Harvey a **** into the top three of the Golden Ball Award twice, can be said to be a supreme recognition of his status.

The third point to look at the individual technical style, Harvey is particularly good at controlling the ball short passes and direct, and Pirlo is good at the top of the long passes, wide range of transfers and a trick of super free kicks, I think that in the aspect of the individual technology, the two should be in the middle of a tie.

The fourth point to look at the personal style and charm, Pirlo are known to have created the famous front waist back of the era, the four 10 at the same time in the field is initiated by Pirlo, is also officially recognized by FIFA. Harvey side is with Spain and Barcelona a piece of the famous TIKI-TAKA era, it can be said that the two are capable of defining an era of cross-generation technical masters, if the fans pay more attention to the style of the ball floating dashing and personal charisma, I think that this point on the Pirlo is slightly ahead of the low-profile and simple Harvey.

To summarize, I think Harvey's historical position is still ahead of Pirlo. One last fact to cite is that after Xavi left Barcelona in 2015, Barcelona never won the Champions League again, so it's really hard to say whether it was Xavi who borrowed Messi's light or Messi who borrowed Xavi's light that year.