For months now, we at Hudson River Blue have speculated Andrea Pirlo’s future with New York City FC. Though his contract was always due to expire at the end of the calendar year, we had yet to hear anything definitive from the Maestro’s camp.
That is, until Pirlo’s partner, Valentina Baldinini, made a pretty fantastic announcement on her blog this week (Google’s translation, with an assist from Football Italia):
In December we will return to our beautiful Italy ... I think I owe a lot to New York, it was the most beautiful experience of my life.