OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
The goalkeeper announces his retirement on social media through a video that traces all his successes in his 28-year career: “We won together”
02 ago 2023
Gigi Buffon retires from football aged 45. The official announcement came through the goalkeeper’s social profiles. “It ends here. You gave me everything. I gave you everything. We won together“, he wrote Buffon in a post accompanying a video with all his exploits in his 28-year career in goal, give him beginning with Parma to triumphs with the shirt of Juve and the national team culminating in the victory of the World Cup in 2006. The goalkeeper concluded his contract with Parma early, which would have expired in 2024. In his future, a managerial career and among the most accredited hypotheses also the one from head of delegation of the national team led by Roberto Mancini.
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Twenty-eight years of career seem to me an incredible achievement, almost unthinkable, above all for the continuity of performance demonstrated in almost three decades. In my opinion, this is the aspect that most determines the value of a sports career, in this case mine”. With these words
Gigi Buffon commented on the farewell to football on the Parma website.
“It took me so long
passion, dedication, enthusiasm and cheerfulness that looking back, I can say that
they really flew. Yes, these 28 years – with these two dates (November 19, 1995 and May 30, 2023, the debut in A and the last in B) – are my football history and my sporting history. But also the story of those who, with cheering, with tears and with love, have supported me in these 28 years,” underlined the former Azzurri goalkeeper.
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I also want to thank Parma and its people because it really made me feel so loved, even in these two years: the president Kyle Krause – one of the best people I’ve met in the world of football – and the directors of the Company, who had immediately asked me to fill a managerial role in the group” , he concluded.
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