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Gianluigi Buffon

Gianluigi Buffon was born in the year 1978, he is an Italian professional goalkeeper and he plays for both Juventus and Italian National team. He is also captain for these teams. He had won 167 caps and he is the player with the most caps in the entire history of Italian national team. He is the sixth player with most cap in the international football. He is considered by managers, pundits, and other players to be the greatest goalkeeper for all time.

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He is known to be outstanding shot stopping and vocal organizer for the defense and a personality of the key dressing room. He is now expensive goalkeeper into the entire history and his transfer was worth 53 million when he went from Parma to the Juventus in the year 2001. He holds a record of most clean sheet within the series A and with the Italian national team. He has a record of longest streak and he did not concede for any goal into the history of Seri A for more than twelve league matches. He was unbeaten for over 974 consecutive minutes in 2015 until 2016 season. He had got the most clean sheets at the number of ten in the series of A within one season.

At the level of the club, Gianluigi Buffon started to play under Parma in the year 1995, and this is the time that he made it to Series A. he was promoted for a starting goalkeeper and he got the reputation of being one of the promising young goalkeepers in the country of Italy. This is the time that he won Coppa Italia with Supercoppa Italiana and UEFA cup, during the year 1999.

From his biography, Gianluigi Buffon had been always consistent through his entire career and he got praises from goalkeeper colleagues, players and managers because of his longevity, work-rate, composure and concentration. He is considered to be the best player in the position and he came to be known as the archetype of the modern goalkeeper.

He had been described as being strong, agile and shot-stopper and he is the highly experienced person in his career. Gianluigi Buffon was born in the family of athletes. His mother, called Maria Stella and she was discus thrower while the father Adriano played as weightlifter. After their retirement in athletic industry, they started to work as school teachers in P.E. His two sisters, Guendalina and Veronica also play volleyball under Italian National Volleyball Team.

Their uncle known as Dante Masocco was the basketball player in the Serie A1 and presented the country. He is a catholic. Gianluigi Buffon got married and his wife is Alena Seredová. They have two children together, Louis Thomas with David Lee. After separating from his wife, he started to see Ilaria D’Amico. His yearly salary is 4 million dollars while his net worth is 20 million dollars.


Quick Facts
Birth Date: 28 Jan, 1978
Age: 42 yrs
Occupations: Association football player
Citizenship: Italy
Birth Place: Carrara
residence: Carrara
Turin
Gender: Male
Description: Italian association football player
Spouse: Alena Šeredová[2011-2014]
Net Worth 2021: 20 million
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Last Modified: Jun 27 2020
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