Gianluigi Buffon is an outstanding football goalkeeper, Italian by birth. 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 a legend of world football.
Biography
Gigi was born in the small Italian town of 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 engaged in shot put, but did not achieve great success. The Gianluigi sisters practiced water polo. The boy himself has been striving to play football since childhood. Initially, he did not want to stand on the goal, tried different positions, but over time he realized that he did not like to run a lot, since then he took position number one.
Career
Buffon went through a large number of youth teams before reaching Parma and it was the first serious club of his career. There he also made his debut for the main team at a professional level. At Parma, the young goalkeeper spent 6 whole 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 per goalkeeper, thereby setting a record. Gianluigi Buffon became the most expensive goalkeeper in history. Gigi spent 17 long 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 Serie B, it just 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 standings … The famous goalkeeper also has 4 Italian Cups and 5 Super Cups. Over the years of his career, Buffon has not achieved only one thing - he has never won the Champions League, while he became a finalist three times.
Buffon also played for the national team of his country, having played 176 matches. He became world champion in 2006. It was also runner-up at the 2012 European Championships and bronze at the 2013 Confederations Cup. As for personal career achievements, there are so many of them that it will take several pages to list them all. It is especially worth highlighting the Order of Merit for the Italian Republic and the gold chain for Sporting Merit.
Personal life
A handsome brunette two meters tall, a man with an amazing career, Buffon has always enjoyed a resounding success with women.
In his biography - two marriages and three children. In 2005, Luigi met his first serious love - Czech model Alena Seredova, and in 2011 the couple got married in Prague. The wife gave birth to her famous husband two sons, Louis and Thomas.
And in 2014, Buffon announced his divorce and began to actively build relationships with Ilaria D'Amico, an Italian TV presenter. In this union, Buffon had a third son, Matteo.
The education of a great goalkeeper leaves much to be desired. He dropped out of school for sports and has not studied anywhere since. And in 2004 he tried to use a fake diploma from a prestigious university, for which he almost got a prison sentence.
At the same time, Buffon is a fairly large and successful businessman who owns a large amount of real estate, a shop, parking lots, a hotel and, together with his parents, several recreation centers in ski resorts.
