The former national team goalkeeper, 2006 world champion, presented his book “Falling, getting up, falling, getting back up”
“I don’t miss football. I don’t miss matches because I will never experience the emotions I experienced as a protagonist in football, with enormous responsibilities, again.” These are the words of Gianluigi Buffon, head of delegation of the Italian national team and world champion in 2006, at the presentation of the book “Fadere, RiRirsi, Cadre, RiRirsi” at the Spazio Sette bookshop in Rome.
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The former Juventus captain focused on the role of the goalkeeper during the chat with Massimo Giletti: “It’s another thing, you have to have skills and a precise character; you have to be masochistic, he’s the only one who just has to defend, you don’t have almost never the real satisfaction of scoring a goal or something important being recorded. You have to be altruistic. And also a little bit played.”
the best ever
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“It would be presumptuous to call oneself the best in history, but in terms of the longevity of my career and the way I performed there were few like me” he thus answers the question of whether he was the best goalkeeper in history.
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“I have made many mistakes, but also some positive ones. I have learned a lot from the mistakes, I have always paid the price myself and when there is no one who stands between you and the criticisms, sometimes specious and sometimes fair, they hit you The only way to become a better person is to make mistakes, pay and start again.
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He then talks about his transfer and his stay in the Juventus club: “I had Roma offer me the Scudetto, with Baldini who came to my house to offer me a future 5-year deal, and Barcelona, as well as Juventus. Coming to Juve from Parma was like leaving Earth and landing on Mars. Worst moment at Juve? The two seventh places, two years of agony. If Conte hadn’t arrived we would never have won team, no one would ever have succeeded.”
former comrades
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Buffon then remembers some former teammates: “Guys – Italians excluded – who touched my heart are Tevez, Dani Alves and Thuram, as well as Mario Stanic. I remember them with pleasure because they had a special soul. The entity of Cristiano Ronaldo was great, extremely aware of what he was and represents, if you were lucky enough to take him aside you understood the type of fragility he could have, the difficulties he had to overcome.”
Maurizio Sarri
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Gianluigi Buffon also spoke about Maurizio Sarri, calling him “the right choice for what Juve’s plan should have been to offer a certain type of football. But coaches so prepared are not always used to managing certain players. At a certain point he understood that to win he had to reach a compromise, for me it is synonymous with intelligence but the club decided that it was impossible to start again.”
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The last memory goes to Gianni Agnelli: “He was hilarious, he had a unique curiosity. Once he called me at 5.30 in the morning to ask me about a penalty saved 7 or 8 months earlier”.
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