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Former Bundesliga star Claudio Pizarro is missing proper centre forwards in modern German football and would always field one if he was a coach. The 43-year-old Peruvian told the Süddeutsche Zeitung in an interview published on Saturday ahead of his official farewell match later in the day that top teams started to concentrate on a fast passing game which made strikers obsolete. “In the past strikers were simply there to score goals even if they weren’t the best footballers. Today they are supposed to pass, to press, and so on. Yes, that is important. But you still need proper strikers,” Pizar…