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After the final whistle the star big clubs usually they get into sports cars, leaving the stadium hidden behind tinted windows and many fans saw it. Not Gianluigi Buffon. He met several years ago in the crowd at the Thuringian object – after exiting the shower pomeczowego photographed with fans, signing autographs and answering questions at length about the team. And when he was done, he not getting into the Maserati or Ferrari, but for ordinary Lancia. He often admitted in interviews that he is the only known player, for which the car is an ordinary everyday object.
With Juventus zżył so that turyńczycy have already forgotten that he grew up somewhere else – in 2001. Parma He sold it for the equivalent of 51 million euro (100 billion lire), the amount still among goalkeepers record. Five years later, Buffon podołał the heaviest sample of loyalty – after the Calciopoli scandal, unlike Ibrahimovic, Cannavaro and Thuram, not criminally relegowanego abandoned the club to the second division. And they wanted it all, as the first decades goalkeeper then jumped on the podium plebiscite Golden Ball. The club thanked him, buying full-page ads in major newspapers.
– I do not know, maybe I was specifically brought up, but it’s obvious to me that if Juve helped me become world champion, you owe him too much to take flight . I do not think for a moment – explained the Italian, who dressed as a representation with the greatest passion in the team sings the national anthem, and as turyńczyk attempts to alleviate międzyklubowe feuds. Also because of the few players applauded at all the stadiums of Serie A, after all, populated by fans of romantic enough, which contaminated the tribal mentality and thus unwilling to show respect for opponents.
Leń without concentration
His own stories about his early career sounds like a made-up story – in his youth was a playmaker, reportedly fled into the goal for two reasons: uncontrolled laziness (did not want to run and generally learn to play the ball), and inability to maintain a constant concentration. He is eating a lot of ice mountains, notorious for running late for training. And when, as a 17-year-old made his debut in Parma, was so relaxed that during a ten-minute bus trip from the hotel to the stadium fell asleep, causing the consternation experienced colleagues in the locker room. When he awoke, he stopped all the shots of stars Milan.
Sometimes too dramatically. After losing the Champions League final in 2003. He fell into a depression. Before workouts had acute panic attacks and hardly first found the strength to get out of the car, leaving too jittery to matches. To “the darkest period in my life,” he confessed only after years – when he suffered, concealed stretching sessions for six months a psychologist, because he thought that as a professional footballer will be finished.
Finished supposed to be also in 2010 . Chronic back pain sentenced him on a regular break in the game and training, the World Cup in South Africa began stuffed pharmaceuticals, until the body could not stand, and the results of magnetic resonance imaging team doctor found “devastating”. The goalkeeper threatened to end his career.
Again he survived. Today, as 37-year-old is heading towards 150 meczowi for the country (record among Italians), is planning an expedition to his sixth World Cup. I obsessively craves triumph in the Champions League. Nazdobywał to dozens of trophies and medals to the team and individual, but the most precious trophy in club football is not touched, because swears that sacrifice for his five seasons of his career. And at the same time it irritated when reading that “gets his last chance.” Why the last, if not even think to take off the gloves in his late thirties?
Santa Claus without the dot over the ‘i’
His immortality all the more astonishing that serious play began as a boy, meanwhile, tend to be rather long-lived players whose talent has exploded relatively late. Even goalkeepers – feels the transience in slow motion, they did not threaten the loss of speed or capacity – to burn, just look at the rival of the highest level yet in underage Iker Casillas, the Real Madrid dug not primarily out of respect for the past legends. And Buffon listened to, that is a phenomenon, as a kid. In the semi-finals of the European Championship to 15 years old saved two penalties (one he scored) he stopped in the final three. And the Italians won the gold medal.
Today is considered one of the goalkeepers of all time. The paradox lies in the fact that although throughout his career maintains superb form in senior football has never had his evening, famous across the continent match emblem. Even such as Jerzy Dudek, goalkeeper after weaker, that fateful night in Istanbul. Buffon defended Luis Figo penalty in the Champions League semi-finals in 2003., But in the final hero has already Dida of AC Milan. At the World Cup in 2006. He gave to overcome only with a penalty and an own goal – with a clean slate lasted 453 consecutive minutes! – But in the final no “eleven” have not stopped. In the quarter-finals Euro 2008 came across better than each other – Casillas – so Italians dropped out after a goalless clinch and another series of criminal cases. And then or together with Juventus he stayed far from the peaks LM, or incur representation defeat at World Cups, or obrywał 0: 4 in the final of Euro 2012.
Now it should expect intense fire. In the quarterfinals mysteriously he won the duel with Ferreira Carrasco of Monaco, in the semi-finals Real Madrid survived gunfire, but only in the final encirclement him Neymar, Luis Suárez and Leo Messi, Proclaim the most virtuoso line of attack in modern football. Buffon, what seems almost unbelievable, I’ve never met yet on the court with the latter, which consists of tributes in every interview. I repeat humbly, that the Argentine superiority over all other football players considers unquestionable regardless of Saturday’s result.
This is a challenge for him, but at the same time the greatest chance to finally become master of ceremonies, to grow into the main character absolutely absolute match , stick in the memory kibicowska iconic portrait of Gianluigi Buffon – stopping Barcelona scoring. At the same Olympic stadium in Berlin, where nine years ago he won the gold World Cup.
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