Gianluigi Buffon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Italian association football player
Date of Birth: 28-Jan-1978
Place of Birth: Carrara, Tuscany, Italy
Profession: association football player
Nationality: Italy
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
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About Gianluigi Buffon
- Gianluigi "Gigi" Buffon, (Italian pronunciation: [d?anlu'i?d?i buf'f?n, -'fon]; born 28 January 1978) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A club Juventus.
- He is widely regarded by players, pundits and managers as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time, and, by some, as the greatest ever.
- Buffon holds the record for the longest streak without conceding a goal in Serie A history: over 12 league matches, he went unbeaten for 974 consecutive minutes during the 2015–16 season, achieving the most consecutive clean sheets (10) during that run.
- Buffon also holds the record for the most clean sheets in Serie A, and with the Italy national team.
- He is one of the few recorded players to have made over 1,000 professional career appearances.
- At club level, Buffon's professional career began with Parma in 1995, where he made his Serie A debut.
- He soon earned a reputation as one of the most promising young goalkeepers in Italy, and helped Parma win the Coppa Italia, the UEFA Cup and the Supercoppa Italiana, in 1999.
- After joining Juventus in 2001 for the world record fee for a goalkeeper of €52 million at the time, Buffon won Serie A titles in both of his first two seasons at the club, and established himself as one of the best players in the world in his position.
- With Juventus, he won a record nine Serie A titles, four Coppa Italia titles, and five Supercoppa Italiana titles.
- He is the first goalkeeper to win Serie A Footballer of the Year award.
- He was named Serie A Goalkeeper of the Year a record 12 times.
- After reaching the 2015 and 2017 Champions League finals, he was named to the Champions League Squad of the Season on both occasions, and won the inaugural The Best FIFA Goalkeeper award in the latter year.
- After 17 years with Juventus, Buffon signed with French club Paris Saint-Germain at the age of 40 in 2018, where he immediately won the Trophée des Champions and the Ligue 1 title in his only season with the team, before returning to Juventus the following year. With 176 international caps, Buffon is the most capped player in the history of the Italy national team, the fourth-most capped footballer of all time, and the most capped European international player ever; Buffon also holds the record most appearances for Italy as captain after he inherited the armband in 2010.
- Buffon was called up for a record of five FIFA World Cup tournaments (1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014) since making his debut in 1997; he was an unused substitute in the 1998 edition.
- He was the starting goalkeeper of the squad that won the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
- He also represented Italy at four European Championships, at the 1996 Olympics, and at two FIFA Confederations Cups, winning a bronze medal in the 2013 edition of the tournament.
- Following his performances during the 2006 FIFA World Cup, where he kept a record five clean sheets, he won the Yashin Award, in which he was also elected to be part of the Team of the Tournament; an honour which he also received after reaching the quarter-finals of the 2008 European Championship, and the final of the 2012 European Championship.
- He retired from international football in 2017, after Italy failed to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, although he later came out of retirement for the team's friendlies the following year, before officially confirming his international retirement in May 2018. Buffon was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players in 2004.
- He is the only goalkeeper to have won the UEFA Club Footballer of the Year award, which he won after reaching the 2003 UEFA Champions League Final; he also won the award for best Goalkeeper that year.
- He has also been voted into the UEFA Team of the Year five times.
- Buffon was the runner-up for the Ballon d'Or in 2006, and has been elected part of the FIFPro World XI three times.
- He is the first goalkeeper ever to win the Golden Foot Award.
- He was named the IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper a record five times, alongside Iker Casillas, and was also named the best goalkeeper of the 21st century, of the past 25 years, and of the decade, by the same organisation.
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