The “Little General” who refused the passage of time forever said goodbye voluntarily.
The legendary Italian goalkeeper Buffon, who worked for Italian Parma, officially announced his decision to retire on the evening of August 2.
He refused the temptation of the Saudi league-he was still standing alone like an old goalkeeper, even though he was left alone in the bustling crowd.
In 28 years, Buffon is legendary enough.
Upgraded to fold the halberd, frustrated
Buffon to hide, it really hit the outside world.
At this time last year, there was no timetable for the retirement of Buffon: “I have been thinking about when I will stop. I have been thinking for nearly 10 years, but I have never been sure, maybe retirement at 55 is not a bad decision?”
Unfortunately, similar to the career track of all veteran “longevity and humiliation”, what made Buffon determined to retire was still an unexpected reversal.
In the Serie B upgrade play-in last season, Parma faced Cagliari, who was directed by legendary coach Ranieri in the first round away. In the first half, they went smoothly with 2 goals leading, and one foot seemed to have stepped into the upgrade final battlefield.
Seeing that the victory was within easy reach, Palma coach pezia replaced Buffon. This decision was not inappropriate at that time-after all, Buffon who had always been injured had been gritted their teeth and left the veteran to the key second round, it is also reasonable.
But after Buffon, the disaster happened.
In just 22 minutes, the 33-year-old goalkeeper Qi zisola, who appeared on the bench Buffon, pulled out the ball from the ball net three times in a row-this plot twist completely destroyed the morale of the team. Four days later, they were forced into white rolls by their opponents at home, and the dream of upgrading was torn apart.
When Ranieri and his disciples hugged each other in rapture, the gloomy Buffon got up and applauded the lost home fans.
At first, Buffon, who was used to big scenes, could still face the exit calmly. However, a few minutes later, his eyes drooped and his mouth twitched. Finally, tears could not help but burst out of his eyes-he bowed his head to avoid the camera, but his twitching cheeks and shoulders still betrayed his sadness.
At this moment, how similar is the bleak autumn night of San Siro in 2017?
At that time, it was also on the bench, and it was also the whole process that witnessed the loss of teammates. However, what Buffon missed at that time was the possibility that life would play the World Cup again. This time, he missed it, it is an easy upgrade opportunity for the mother team.
After all, if Parma is promoted to Serie A, Buffon will definitely break the oldest appearance record of Serie A held by former Lazio door-God Balota for 44 years and 38 days, which will also surpass Buffon of my idols Dino Zoff
(Zov said goodbye to the stadium at the age of 41. In addition, another idol Buffon was Cameroonian God Nkono).
Great, painful and regretful
754 club appearances, 176 National team appearances, 10 Serie A champions, 1 FIFA World Cup, 5 best 11 members in UEFA, 5 FIFA Best Goalkeeper of the year…… 28 years of legendary career, enough to open a personal honor Museum Buffon.
Unfortunately, Casillas, who is only 3 years younger than himself, failed to complete the Grand Slam of Buffon, although it has a longer career dimension than the Spanish, but there are also more regrets.
In the last year of last century, when the Italian team No. 1 fell on him, he missed Euro 2000 due to injury. Like Vieri, he could only sit at home and watch TV.
The Golden Ball killing of Trezeguet led to the sudden death of the army of blue shirts, which was extremely close to the Delaunay Cup. At that moment, if Buffon was standing on the door instead of Toldo, would the ending be different?
This is the closest moment of Italy’s “golden generation” born in 1973-1979 to the European Cup, and it is also the champion who failed to get his hands on the whole career of Buffon.
In 2006, Buffon won FIFA World Cup with Italy.
The failure of the European Cup did not prevent Buffon from rewriting the history one year later-the first goalkeeper’s worth of 53 million euros was broken by Alisson until 2018. Today, Buffon is still on the list of global goalkeeper and Italian players, firmly holding the third place.
Since then, all the personal honors of Buffon have been highly bound to Juventus. No matter whether the immediate superior is Lippi, Conte or Allegri, the sound and natural Buffon in front of the door, it is the spokesman of the Bianconeri who pursues the 1-0 doctrine.
However, Juve, who dominated the Serie A, switched the stage to the Champions League final, always had a short heroic breath-three too large ear cups did not enter the door, which became the biggest regret of his career in Buffon. Whenever the superstars who missed the Champions League counted, buffon will be named together with Ronaldo, IBU and others.
What makes Buffon “difficult to stretch” is always unexpected injuries.
In the cold South Africa in 2010, Italy, as the defending champion, opened the curse of the World Cup champion team’s exit, while the wounded battle only played one game of Buffon, which seemed to be a bad omen for the defection of blue shirts troops.
However, in the later period of Juve’s career, Buffon of the frequent injuries, the first episode was gradually given to Szczesny; When I stayed in Paris and Parma, the injuries were still torturing Buffon from time to time, and ruined the last little goal of Buffon career “.
The last old hero
The 28-year career means that Buffon can not only be proud of any player of the same era, but also look at the history of football. Only Stanley Matthews and others in the era of the wild are comparable.
Different from many peers who handed over their twilight years to the Middle East, North America and even Asia, Buffon has been active in the top European league from debut to retirement.
This also made Parma’s match against Inter Milan in the Italian Cup last season an amazing scene: among the 11 players starting in Parma, only four were born when Parma’s first show was staged in Buffon-in other words, Buffon were their real father-generation players.
However, people with clear eyes can see that although the experience is unique, the decline of the state caused by old age is not because of his name Buffon, which is an exception-the reaction speed and health level are declining day by day, let Buffon become the protagonist of low-level mistakes more often.
In the 2021-2022 season, against Perugia, he gave his opponent the whole empty door outside the penalty area, while the 44-year-old gave up chasing back…… Without him, I can’t run anymore.
In the football arena where a generation of new people send the old people, the senior Deyi has never been a bonus. More often, fans will look at Buffon with different eyes-but Buffon is especially strong, and they choose to stay at multiple points that can be left unrestrained.
For the sake of a Champions League, he left Juve, who had never given up when he was demoted, and went to Paris for a two-door or even three-door position, but like Beckham, his position in the Champion of France A, more signs and mascots.
In order to return to his roots, he resolutely returned to Palma, even if the home team was not the king team gathered in Cannavaro, Bellon, Crespo and kiyesa.
Even, in front of the silver bullet offensive of the rich and hostile countries in the Saudi league, Buffon who could have got a two-year 30 million euro pension contract had never been sincere.
A team of one person is already extravagant hope. At the end of the peak period of the rich gate, they will look for a pension contract smartly and stand to earn money without being cold. But Buffon, No.
He is still like an old-fashioned goalkeeper, standing alone in the same place, even if there was only one left in the bustling crowd.
To stick to your own obsession, just like standing in front of the goal for countless times and facing shooting, this is the most stubborn heroism that sticks to the 45-year-old Buffon.
(Supine support/Yang Jian)
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