Gianluigi Buffon is an outstanding football goalkeeper, originally Italian. He has a huge number of both personal and team awards. For a long time he held the title of the best goalkeeper in the world and became the legend of world football.
Biography
Gigi was born in the small town of Italy Carrara. Sport surrounded the boy from birth, the whole family had some success in various sports. Mother was a shot putter and even had well-deserved titles.
My father was also involved in the shot put, but did not achieve much success. The Gianluigi sisters practiced water polo. The boy himself from childhood sought to play football. Initially, he did not want to stand on goal, tried different positions, but over time, he realized that he did not like to run a lot, since then he took the number one position.
Career
Buffon went through a large number of youth teams before reaching Parma, and this was the first serious club of his career. There he made his debut for the main team at a professional level. In “Parma” the young goalkeeper spent as many as 6 seasons and entered the field in 220 games.
In 2001, Juventus made a sensational acquisition - the club laid out a huge amount at that time of 75 million lire for the goalkeeper, thereby setting a record. Gianluigi Buffon became the most expensive goalkeeper in history. Gigi spent a long 17 years at Juventus. In total, he played in 656 matches, 11 times became the champion of Serie A, the main championship of Italy.
Also in the 06/07 season, Buffon as part of the same “Juventus” became the champion of series B, it so happened that in the previous season “Juventus” played extremely poorly and flew out of the main championship, but a year later he returned and continued to storm the top lines of the tournament table. Also in the asset of the famous goalkeeper 4 cups of Italy and 5 super bowls. For all the years of his career, Buffon has not achieved only one thing - he has never won the Champions League, while he became the finalist three times.
Buffon also played for the national team of his country, having played 176 matches. He became world champion in 2006. There was also second place at the European Championships in 2012 and the bronze of the Confederations Cup in 2013. As for personal achievements in a career, there are so many that it takes a few pages to list all. It is especially worth highlighting the Order of Merit for the Italian Republic and the Golden Chain of Merit for Sport
