Italy and AC Milan team-mate Gennaro Gattuso has spent many seasons by the 31-year-old's side and believes the calf injury which has ruled Pirlo out of the Azzurri's first two World Cup Group F games, and maybe more, is his worst hammer blow.
"I've never seen Andrea as sad as he has been in recent days, and it's true he always has that face. But it's like he's taken a mallet," Gattuso joked at a news conference on Saturday.
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