Gianluigi Buffon

Gianluigi Buffon (born January 28, 1978 in Carrara) is an Italian football player. He is a goalkeeper for Juventus and the Italian national team, and is generally regarded as one of the finest keepers in the world.

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Buffon started his career with Parma in 1995. In 2003, he won the Most Valuable Player and Best Goalkeeper awards at the UEFA European Football Awards. Buffon currently the current world record fee paid for a goalkeeper after his July 2001 move from Parma to Juventus for 36 million pounds. He was named by Pel? as one of the top 125 greatest living footballers in March 2004.

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After backing up Gianluca Pagliuca at the and missing with an injury, Buffon started for Italy at the and . He was a member of the Italian Olympic Team at the 1996 Olympic Games.

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In 2004/2005 Buffon helped Juventus to their third Serie A title in four seasons. His stunning saves in the crucial match against AC Milan weeks earlier virtually won the title for the Old Lady.

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January 28: January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 337 days remaining (338 in leap years)....

1978: 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar)....

Carrara: Carrara is a city in the Massa Carrara province of Tuscany, Italy, famous for the white or blue-gray marble quarried there. It is on the Lavensa river, some 60 miles west northwest of Florence. As of 1991, the population was 61,197 people....

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