Gianluigi Buffon, one of the best goalkeepers in the history of football and whose elite career lasted from 1995 to 2023, has given new details of the “amazing” anecdote he experienced with Leo Messi in the Champions League final his team, Juventus, lost in Berlin in 2015 against FC Barcelona led by the Argentine genius. The legendary Italian international took the opportunity to present his autobiography ‘Fall, get up, fall, get up’. in Mondadori, in Milan’s Piazza Duomo.
With 1-0 in Barça’s favor after Ivan Rakitic’s early goal, the teams headed to the locker room tunnel and then the strange scene recounted by Buffon took place. “Leo chased me towards the locker room at the end of the first half. It was something that caught my attention. It’s the most beautiful thing in the world. Seeing an icon like Leo running towards me to exchange shirts moved me,” he admitted. he. as he celebrated his success in his professional life. Because, despite the fact that they lost that historic match in Berlin by conceding the final 2-1 after a hard shot from Messi that he parried before Barça player Luis Suárez, the goalkeeper, finished who is now 46 years old. years old, ” “he always felt that he was lucky to do the best.”
Buffon insists to remember that after the pandemic he will soon sign for Barça as a second goalkeeper. “It was not planned to be in Serie B with Parma, but I decided to stop being an opponent after Juventus. In Turin, they would have renewed my contract, but I decided to make another decision to feel alive. There the Barcelona, who were looking for a second goalkeeper, and other teams that would have played in the Champions League, but my heart and destiny brought me back to Parma”, where his career began.
In a recent interview for Corriere della Sera, Buffon mentioned that Barça of 2015, with the Leo Messi-Luis Suárez-Neymar trident, as the “best rival” he faced in his career, along with Real Madrid of 2017, that he also won the Champions League final when he defended the Juventus goal.
Source: La Verdad
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