The Purple Mane interviews Italian soccer legend Paolo Maldini. Thoughts are given on Kaka, Pirlo, American soccer, and artificial playing surfaces. Below is an English translation of the interview.

You are here to see Kaka?
“I am here for vacation at South Beach for the last 2 days with my boys and I knew about this game and I wanted to come up and see him (Kaka)”

How do you see a 34 year old Kaka?
“All of us arrive at that age, it is a different experience both in life and in football...however American football is growing, there is a lot of enthusiasm, it is still at its very beginnings in many things but in many other aspects it can teach European football”

Next weekend, Kaka and Pirlo on the same field, a crazy thing, no?
“I believe Pirlo has just been at Ibiza for the last 20 days and therefore I don’t think he’ll be in shape, I don’t know if he will play, but, he will definitely need time to find his form also because this is a very physical style of football, its hot, especially in the summer, very difficult”

Between the two, Kaka or Pirlo, who can make it to 41 years of age on the field like you?
Ah! For example if I would have played on artificial turf...for the knees...now I am not able to play football at all, many problems...however, the further in age you get the harder it is to play on artificial surfaces. However, Pirlo is one who makes the ball move a lot…yes, his quickness is not really in legs but in his speed of thought while Ricardo has a style of play much more difficult, and this could also be a determining factor…”


We met Paolo Maldini!

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Lalas

After seeing Cyle continue his goalscoring form in NY The Jiggaman himself decided it was time to rewrite his NY hit, "Empire State of Mind".

Lyrics:

Yeah, here's our boy, setting Yankee Stadium,
unstoppable, not to mention he's Canadian.
skill up on the Horizon
or some games he's out alone on an island
Don't matter, he'll show up and embarrass you
with his chest, his head, no goal he can't do.
Upsetting you watching your team fail
Its just as ugly and disappointing, like The Third Rail.
Hard to be tough and act like a champ
When your field is the size of a postal stamp
Watch the reckoning, no hopes for the shield
Less running for Cyle, it's a baseball field
My home New York , put up a fight,
I forgot, your nobody, you're only man city lite

New York, concrete jungle
Where dreams are made of
There's nothing he can’t do
Now you’re in New York
These goals will tend to excite you
He might even bag two
Scoring in New York
New York, New York