Buffon, UEFA president award

The Italian exporter Guianlui Buffon He will receive the 2024 UEFA President’s Award next Thursday in Monaco, in recognition to your long career, his skill, determination and perseverance.

Buffon, who retired just over a year later 28 active periods, He is the goalkeeper with the most caps of all time, 176, as well as the player with the most caps in the history of the Italian national team and the fourth European footballer with the highest number of caps.

The award recognizes the accomplishments most notably, the efficiency professional and characteristics role model and UEFA president, Aleksander Ceferin, showed his admiration for Buffon from a young age, when he was Parma’s goalkeeper in the mid-nineties.

“Beyond his impressive presence under the sticks, his longevity and determination make him an inspiration for football fans around the world. Their remarkable consistency across generations may lead many to believe that staying on top is easy. “The fact that he chose to follow his club to Serie B during its best season, despite being wanted by the best clubs in the world, says it all,” he said.

Ceferin also emphasized that Buffon “was one of the first athletes to speak openly about mental health and depression, thus contributing to increasing awareness of this problem in professional sports.”

Gianluigi Buffon reached the peak of his career in 2006, playing a decisive role in Italy’s victory in Germany World Cup. He won a record ten Serie A titles, as well as the 1999 UEFA Cup, six Italian Cups and Ligue 1 during a career that took him from Parma to Juventus and back, with a brief spell at Paris Saint- Germaine.

In 39 years He won the UEFA goalkeeper of the year award after Juventus reached their second Champions League final in three years and hung up his gloves just over a year ago at Parma, the club he started at in 1995. .