The goalkeeper, now head of the national delegation: “One day Leo and the club will make peace, as the history of both of them deserves. With the new coach we can start dreaming again”
“On the field it was a light journey, I did something that I always considered a game, a way to show off my art. Sometimes even making mistakes and overestimating myself, but I always considered myself an artist, for what I put into on the pitch, in relationships with others, in the locker room”. Thus begins the long interview on the microphones of Radio Serie A with Rds of Gianluigi Buffon, former goalkeeper of Parma, Juventus and PSG as well as Italy’s 2006 world champion, now head of the delegation of the Italian national team. “When did I decide to stop playing football? The exact moment was in Cagliari in the playoff finals, I was anxiously awaiting these play-off matches to go to Serie A. I arrived in an exceptional psycho-physical condition. The fact that at the end I had a muscle problem in my calf in the first half, which meant that without hesitation, as I was leaving the pitch, I decided that this would be my last match”, said the former number one.
the Bonucci case
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Then a look at Juve, and the situation linked to Leonardo Bonucci, his former teammate who moved to Union Berlin: “There are some moments in which you get into strange dynamics, then you can’t see the way out and the glimmer of hope. When Leo and the managers have the opportunity to see each other again, perhaps in another place, in another context other than football, they will be able to find a way to reconcile as the history of both of them deserves.”
shoulder pads
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The new head of the Azzurri delegation, however, is focused on his own future and on the impact that Luciano Spalletti has had within Coverciano: “Can we go back to dreaming with Italy? The dream is free. You can start dreaming with some good reasons, in my opinion the national team was lucky enough to find a free coach in his best moment – he explains to the microphones of Radio Serie A with Rds -. Spalletti’s teams were teams appreciated by everyone for their game. For me it was a revelation. As a coach I had no doubts, I was really struck by the level of professionalism, he also has psychological readings in which he captures every little nuance.”
his role
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Buffon also talks about a role, that of head of delegation of the national team which “intrigued him a lot, I liked it a lot. I thought it could be the right suit for me, then the fact of returning to an environment that I know well, qualifying and qualified, with the desire for revenge for another World Cup in which we were absent was an additional stimulus, what encouraged me”, concluded the former goalkeeper.
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