Gianluigi Buffon

Gianluigi Buffon is affectionately called Gigi by the football world and is sure that a man is the best goalkeeper of our time. At the dawn of his career, the Italian was not going to stand guard at the gate, he just got carried away with games, but over time he realized that he did not like to run a lot. This is how the talented goalkeeper was born, about whom there are already legends.

Sport has surrounded Gianluigi since birth. Athletes gathered under one roof. Mother Maria Stella Mazocco - shot putter, was the champion of Italy in discus throwing. My father also made a career as a shot putter, and two sisters were part of the water polo team.

From childhood, the boy was attracted by football, and there were also football players in the family - grandfather's brother Lorenzo Buffon defended the gates of the Italian national team. Gianluigi disappeared at matches, choosing the Genoa club as his idol. And when he grew up, he himself went to comprehend the basics of playing with a ball, becoming a student of a football school in the town of La Spezia. Later, in his hometown of Carrara, located in northern Italy, he played with amateur footballers in two clubs as a midfielder.

The talented young man was noticed by the Parma club and in 1991 he bought him. Two more sports organizations applied for the purchase, but lost the "auction". Even Parma Buffon cost a lot and had to pay off the debt for two years. At the age of 14, Gianluigi already served as the main goalkeeper of the youth team.

For the sake of sports hobby, the young footballer dropped out of high school without receiving a certificate of education. In the future, I decided to fill this gap by purchasing a law degree at the Antonio Magnieri Research Center. In 2004, the deception was revealed, the famous goalkeeper was in jail.

The doors to big football for Gianluigi Buffon opened in 1995. The young man was assigned to the main team of Parma. Fans and athletes admired the talent of the 17-year-old boy - the novice goalkeeper played so masterly and efficiently. The skills were compared to the experience of veterans of European football, and the value of contracts grew rapidly.

In total, Buffon played 168 matches for Parma, adding the Italian Cup and Super Cup and one UEFA award to his personal piggy bank. Six years later, in 2001, the goalkeeper was bought by Juventus. Having learned the amount spent, the sports world gasped - € 52 million, not so much was paid for every rating midfielder or striker.

In a new place, the footballer showed himself even better. Juventus with Gianluigi managed to take the podium of their native country four times, and Buffon himself won the third Super Cup. However, in 2006, a terrible corruption scandal erupted, during which the club was taken away from two championship titles and transferred to the lower league.

In addition, Juventus has lost a number of top players. But Buffon remained loyal to the club, although there was an opportunity to get a great job at Manchester City - the British offered the goalkeeper € 15 million in 2008. Such an amount would raise the goalkeeper to the first place in the list of the highest paid football players.

The scandal affected the goalkeeper personally. Gianluigi was accused of betting in matches, the athlete barely justified himself. In 2012, Buffon helped his hometown club regain their place in the Major Leagues.

During his career, the goalkeeper managed to set two records for clean sheets in 2014 and 2016: he did not allow the opponent to score the ball into the goal first for 745 minutes, then extended this time by one minute. Buffon managed to join his illustrious colleagues in the shop: Argentinean Javier Sanetti, fellow countrymen Paolo Maldini and Francesco Totti in terms of the number of games in Serie A - in 2016 he played his 600th match.

Buffon also shone with talent outside of football clubs. The young man appeared in the national team in 1997. For the first time in the international arena, he fought with a Russian team for the opportunity to defend the country at the World Cup. The game ended in a draw, but the Italians won in the return match, and Gianluigi went to the championship as the third reserve goalkeeper.

At the 2006 World Cup, the Italian footballer snatched the championship, and at the same time received the Yashin Prize as the best goalkeeper. However, two years later, the titled goalkeeper, who was put at the head of the team, failed to save the national team, although he defended the gate masterly. The team had to leave the quarterfinals. A series of failures followed. Only at Euro 2012, the national team reached the final and won bronze at the 2013 Confederations Cup.

Gianluigi Buffon's sports destiny was not without injuries. The goalkeeper had to retire for a short time several times, once he could not even go to the European championship.

Gianluigi Buffon is a handsome man with an ideal athletic figure (he is 1.91 m tall and weighs 92 kg). It is not surprising that the goalkeeper has always had a lot of fans, and in his personal biography there are two serious novels, which are known to the press, and three children.

Gianluigi had been dating a Czech professional model Alena Sheredova for almost four years. In 2006, young people made a bet that if Buffon won the World Cup, the girl would accept the offer to become a wife. The Italian brought the victory and celebrated the wedding. In the first family, two sons were born with a difference of a couple of years. The parents approached the choice of the name of the first-born seriously, the heir was named after the Cameroonian goalkeeper Thomas N'Kono, the idol of the Italian goalkeeper.

In the spring of 2014, the couple filed for divorce, at which time Buffon was already dating TV presenter Ilaria D'Amico. In this union, the third son of football player Leopoldo Mattia was born.

Gianluigi makes money not only by football. The man owns a hotel and a bathing house, shares a business in the field of ski tourism with his parents. The income comes from several parking lots, a restaurant and a shop. He has a rich list of properties: 25 apartments, a villa and two mansions.

Buffon is an active user of social networks, the football player has pages on Instagram and Twitter, which are full of sports-themed photos. The Italian rarely shares pictures from his personal life.

In 2017, the footballer scared fans that he would soon retire internationally. Gianluigi made such a statement after his team was not included in the list of participants in the 2018 World Cup. But still, the athlete continued to perform.

In April 2018, serious passions unfolded at the Champions League games. Juventus lost in the quarterfinals to Real Madrid. At the end of the return match, referee Michael Oliver awarded a penalty to the Italian goal, during the dispute Buffon shouted at Oliver, for which he received a red card. Fans of the football player were indignant, arguing that it was impossible to remove Gianluigi from the field, because this was the last chance to win the Champions League - an unattainable dream of the Juventus goalkeeper.

1997 - Silver at the Mediterranean Games 1998/99 - Winner of the UEFA Cup 1999 - Winner of the Italian Super Cup 2006 - Gold at the 2012 World Cup - Silver at the European Championship 2013 - Bronze at the Confederations Cup 2015, 2016, 2017 - Winner of the Italian Cup Champion of Italy Champion series В Vice-champion of Europe European champion among youth

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Gianluigi Buffon Net Worth 2021

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