Gianluigi Buffon spent more than a decade as a goalkeeper for Juventus and the Italy national team before retiring from ...

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Buffon was certainly worthy of it himself. At the World Cup, the Juventus 'keeper kept a record five clean sheets, conceding just two goals in the entire tournament, and made a match-saving save ...

lifting the World Cup in 2006. Buffon bade an emotional farewell to the Turin side in 2018 but spent just one season at Paris Saint-Germain before returning. He then ended his career where it all ...