- Born
- Nickname
- Gigi Buffon
- Height6′ 3″ (1.91 m)
- Gianluigi Buffon is an Italian professional footballer who captains and plays as a goalkeeper for the Serie B club Parma. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time. He is one of the few recorded players to have made over 1,100 professional career appearances.
At club level, Buffon's professional career began with Parma in 1995, where he made his Serie A debut. He soon broke into the starting line-up and earned a reputation as one of the most promising young goalkeepers in Italy, helping Parma to win the Coppa Italia, the UEFA Cup and the Supercoppa Italiana in 1999. After joining Juventus in 2001, for the world record fee for a goalkeeper of EUR52 million at the time, Buffon won Serie A titles in both of his first two seasons at the club, and established himself as one of the best players in the world in his position.
In his first spell at Juventus, he won a record nine Serie A titles, four Coppa Italias, and five Supercoppa Italianas. He was the first goalkeeper to win the Serie A Footballer of the Year award, and was named Serie A Goalkeeper of the Year a record twelve times. After reaching the 2015 and 2017 UEFA Champions League finals, he was named to the Champions League Squad of the Season on both occasions, and won the inaugural The Best FIFA Goalkeeper award in the latter year.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bonitao
- SpouseAlena Seredova(June 16, 2011 - 2014) (divorced, 2 children)
- Goalkeeper for Parma Calcio 1913 (1995-2001, 2021-), Juventus F.C. (2001-2018, 2019-2021) and Paris Saint-Germain (France, 2018-19).
- Member of the Italy national team who won the 2006 FIFA World Cup; runner-up of the 2012 UEFA European Championship.
- He was engaged to his wife Alena Seredova from 2005 to their marriage in 2011.
- December 28th, 2007: his fiancée (now ex-wife) Alena Seredova gave birth to her and Gigi's first child, a boy named Louis Thomas. He was named in honor of Thomas N'Kono, a Cameroonian retired goalkeeper.
- Member of the Italy youth team who won the 1996 UEFA European U21 Championship.
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