Bulons biography

Parents have taken out the brain for 30 years. " Share comments on the career of one of the best football goalkeepers of our time. Sooner or later, this was supposed to happen - although recently it sometimes began to seem that this would never happen. With whom to compare ... Yes, at least Lev Yashin: he played even by modern standards for a very long time. But Yashin held a farewell match in the age of 41, and Buffon in January turned out to be taking into account the fact that Gianateto, Dzhanluji, came to his first children's team when he was six years old, his sports career stretched out for four decades.

Buffon’s ability to sports, apparently in the genes: his mother was a three -fold champion of Italy in pushing the nucleus, the senior sisters played for the national volleyball team, uncle - in basketball.

It was in his relatives that Italy, after all: Lorenzo Buffon, a distant relative of Dzhanluji, and more than once became the Italian champion in Milan and Inter, played for the national team. Lorenzo Buffon in training. He did not grab special stars from the sky, although he began, along with the “Canalato” champion of the province. Then he moved to Pertikata.

And then there was a year and the World Cup, which was adopted for the second time in her history. No, Buffon, of course, did not take part in him: he was 12 years old. But he carefully watched the tournament on TV. A special impression on Buffon made a match of the opening of the tournament, in which Cameroon beat the current world champion - Argentina. Much later, when Buffon was 41 years old, he wrote a touching letter to himself - young.

In it, among other things, he described his impressions of that meeting: “And then magic occurs. Argentina serves the corner, and Tom goes to the struggle for the ball and knocks it 30 meters. At this very moment, you understand what you want to do in life. You want to become a goalkeeper. Become the same goalkeeper. You want to be wild, brave, free. ” I wonder if this teenager, who was bewitching to the screen, to think that in just three years he would play in the final of the Youth Championship of Europe?

The decision made forced him to change the club again: the second goalkeeper was not needed. I had to go to Bonaskole. But Gigi did not lose: it was in the goalkeeper position that his football talent was fully revealed. A year later, he played so that he was invited to view three famous clubs at once: “Bologna”, “Parma” and “Milan”. They seemed to be satisfied in Bologna, but without enthusiasm: they say, we still have to think ...

But Parma with Milan did not think for a long time: both clubs intended to get a talented guy. I had to choose Gianluigi himself. Either because Parma was closer to the house, or why, but his choice fell on yellow-blue. The legendary commentator is about the legendary goalkeeper: “Thank you for giving me Buffonische. The Cherdantsev escorts the great goalkeeper the purchased certificate and the youthful team is possible, at this point you had an idea of ​​the buffon as a diligent share-boy.

So this is completely wrong: talent talent, but character character. Young Dzhanluji was, as they say, a difficult teenager: he smoked, dared the elders, walked lessons, and then completely threw the school. But in order to enter the institute, a certificate was needed. Then Buffon, without thinking twice, just bought it. The scam was opened: for such tricks, a young athlete threatened a prison term.

True, it was possible to get rid of a fine. By the way, a man is going to catch up at school - a few years ago he promised: Dzhanluji Buffon about education “When I leave football, I will definitely take a creative vacation. I want to finish the fifth year in high school: parents 30 years old will take out my brain because of this. ” Now let's see if he will fulfill his intention.

In the youth team of Parma, Bufffon grew quickly, and the coaches of the national team began to pay attention to him - though, so far, too, only young people. In the year, Dzhanluji went to Turkey for the European Championship U very stubbornly stubbornly produced a quarter -final with the Spaniards and the semi -finals, in which Italy met with the national team no longer existing at that time - Czechoslovakia.

Both matches ended with a series of penalty. It was then that Gigi showed himself in all its glory: in the first series of metro reflected two blows, in the second-three. He also scored the Spaniards: speaking for youth teams, Buffon often performed a penalty. It is believed that good penaltists are often obtained from goalkeepers due to the fact that it is. Buffon really hit the “point” well, but stopped doing this after the transition to professional football.

But he always remained a master in reflection of a penalty. A year later, the club developed a difficult situation with goalkeepers: the second number - the veteran Gally Gally who performed at a professional level, when the buffon was not yet born - went to end his career in Luckez, the series of Series B; The Alessandro Niste, who came to him, soon injured, and later injured the main cyper - Luke Buchchi.

It was then that Buffon came in handy.Buffon was not 18 Buffon; And although he was opposed by such formidable rivals as Roberto Bajo, George Vea and Marco Simona, he did not fade away: having committed several sibs, Dzhanluji did not give them the opportunity to open an account. I don’t know if Buffon was worried before the match, but if so, then he did not show his excitement to anyone.

When the day before the match, the Scale asked the guy: “What if I let you out tomorrow? Are you ready? Dzhanluji did not really suit this state of affairs: he even began to ask him to let him go to Jenoa. But the young football player was persuaded to stay, and the next season, Buffon became the main goalkeeper of Parma. The coincidence or not, but that year the team achieved the best result in its history in the Italy championship - Parma took second place, losing to Juventus only two points.

True, in subsequent seasons, she was no longer able to climb into prizes. But the team still played well, and personally for Buffon, the end of the X became the time of rapid take -off. In August, the first Italian Super Bowl in the history of the team was added to the number of club trophies. Buffon himself was recognized as the best goalkeeper of the year in Italy, received the Bravo Award, which was awarded the best young football player in Europe, and was nominated for the Golden Ball.

They played in Moscow at the Dynamo stadium: in snowfall, an orange ball - so that it was more noticeable in such weather. Buffon in a minute replaced the trauma to Dzhanluka Paluka. Unlike the first match for Parma, this debut was given to Buffon hard: “I could not breathe and dream that I would be buried under the bench,” he recalled. Buffon on the Dynamo field. And Buffon went to France to his first world championship he will have five of them - though only the third goalkeeper.

So, despite the injury of the main goalkeeper Angelo Peruzzi, he did not spend a minute on the field: Paluska played all five matches. But two years later, Buffon was already considered the first number of the national team and was supposed to go to the euro in this status. However, a week before the opening of the championship, he broke his hand in a friendly match with Norway.

The place of Buffon at the goal of the national team was taken by his understudy - Francesco Toldo. I note that Italy and without a buffer performed very dignity, reaching the final. It remains only to guess who would get the Henri Delone's Cup, remained in the ranks. However, history does not know the subjunctive mood - and the story of sports, including ...

instead of a thousand words: 20 brightest moments in the career of Buffon. The incident was a big surprise for the goalkeeper of the Turin, Edwin Van der Sara, who left the team, not wanting to sit in the reserve and perhaps offended by the leadership - after all, shortly before that, he assured him that he was not going to strengthen the goalkeeper position. And Buffon was waiting for a long happy life with Juve.

For the 17 years held as part of the team, he became a truth champion of Italy 10 times, he was subsequently deprived of two Juventus titles, but more on that later, five times took the Cup and six - the country of the country. He played three times in the Champions League finals, but all the Torinians lost all three times: in the year - “Milan”, in M ​​- “Barcelona”, two years later - “Real”.

After the defeat in M, Buffon fell into depression. Art saved: somehow he wandered into the museum and stumbled upon the picture of Mark Shagal “Walk”. Again I will quote Buffon's letter to myself: “This picture conveys something from another world. She will remind you how it is to be a child. How easy it is to be happy. With age, we forget about this feeling.

You need to return to the museum the next day. The woman at the checkout will look at you with a smile. She will ask: “Have you been to us yesterday? But it doesn’t matter. Go inside. Art is the best treatment for you. When you open your mind, the inner severity will disappear. It will fly away like that woman in the picture walked. " He even received a special name - "Calchopoli".

It was found that several Clubs of the series A participated in contractual matches, and their leadership established too “business” relations with some representatives of the judicial corps. Several teams were punished with a large point of fine, and Juventus was most affected: he was deprived of the last two titles and transferred to the series B initially they were going to send the team even lower, to the C1 series, but after the appeal the punishment was softened.

The Buffon himself had to be nervous, who, along with several more players, was accused of illegal playing on the totalizator: they say, he made bets on the results of the matches of the series A. However, the gigi justified: at the investigation, the goalkeeper explained that he put on other sports, and if it was on football, then only for matches of foreign championships was allowed - and only up to a year, when Italian, when Italian Football players were generally forbidden to play on a totalizer.

Buffon with the World Cup.