Italy legend Andrea Pirlo has confirmed he will retire from football at the end of the current Major League Soccer season when his New York City FC contract expires.
The 38-year-old midfielder told Gazzetta dello Sport (h/t Dev Trehan of Sky Sports News) that this season would be his last before hanging up his boots, with the great man expressing doubts about his physicality at this point in his career.
"You just realise that the time has come," he said. "Every day you have physical problems, you cannot train as you like because you always have some stuff.