Gianluigi Buffon made his Serie A debut in 1995. Back then in football you could only make two substitutions during a match, and huge cell phones with antennas were considered a luxury. It’s been a long time since then. A month of Sundays. And someone, but Buffon, the day of his retirement, definitely has something to remember. Here are key moments (and just great photos) from the legendary goalkeeper’s life.
December 1995. Just a youth team from Italy: Gianluigi Buffon, Alessandro Nesta, Francesco Totti and others unnamed at the time.
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October 1997 Buffon will make his senior debut for Italy. And this happens in the qualifying match for the 1998 World Cup with the Russian team in Moscow at the Dinamo stadium (1-1).
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September 1998 Buffon, wearing gloves, studies the magazine. Lilian Thuram and Enrico Chiesa are also interested.
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April 2000 Buffon with a sparkler celebrates the victory over AC Milan. Hernán Crespo scored the only goal of that match.
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December 2000 We are sorry, but we ourselves do not understand what is happening in this framework.
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June 2001 Buffon warming up at the Tbilisi stadium the day before the 2002 Georgia-Italy World Cup qualifying match.
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July 2006 Buffon takes the main trophy of his career from coach Marcello Lippi. In the World Cup final, the Italians defeated the French in a penalty shootout. Gianluigi had an incredible game.
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May 2007 Juventus, after defeating Arezzo, secured promotion from Serie B to Serie A. The team prepared special jerseys for this event.
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April 2009 Buffon came to the Italian entertainment TV show “Ciambretti Night. Then the goalkeeper was 31 years old and said: “I can play at a very high level for another 4-5 years.”
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December 2011 Buffon is celebrating the New Year in Dubai with his then-wife, Alena Sheredova. Vice-Miss Czech Republic and model was the goalkeeper’s wife from 2011 to 2014.
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June 2014. Buffon – in the mist after the pyrotechnics of the fans. Shot from the match against Croatia at Euro 2012.
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November 2015. Manolo Gabbiadini, Gianluigi Buffon and Davide Astori at the presentation of the Italian national team kit at the famous Florence City Hall.
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Buffon was included not only in the Italian national team:
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May 2016. Buffon has been Italian champion 12 times. It is true that Juventus was deprived of two titles.
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June 2017. Buffon misses the Champions League after losing the final against Real Madrid. This trophy was never presented to the goalkeeper.
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August 2017. Buffon carefully squeezes Ronaldo’s leg in the Champions League draw. At that time, the goalkeeper still does not know whose Juventus will fly this Champions League season.
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April 2018. The famous quarterfinal match with Real Madrid. After this game, Buffon claimed that referee Oliver had a trash can instead of a heart.
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May 2018. The impossible happened: the symbol of Juventus left the team. At parting, they presented him with as many scarves as he could carry.
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July 2018. Buffon, 40, decided to continue his career at PSG. There he did not play much (17 games, 18 goals against), but he became the champion of France.
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There is a theory that Buffon still went to the 2018 World Cup in Russia:
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March 2023. Buffon exchanges pennants with Cesc Fàbregas before the Serie B match against Como.
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April 2023. One of Buffon’s last games of his professional career. A few months later, he announces his retirement.
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