Biography of Gianluigi Buffon Complete with His Record and Achievements in Football

Gianluigi Buffon is a legendary soccer player from Italy. He is a player who plays as a goalkeeper or goalkeeper. Buffon is known as the legend of the Italian national team and Juventus. Buffon is considered one of the best goalkeepers in the world of all time. He became the most performed player with the Italian national team and became part of the Italian squad when he won the 2006 World Cup title. This time will be discussed about the profile and biography of Gianluigi Buffon along with the club career, record and achievements of Gianluigi Buffon in full.

Biodata of Gianluigi Buffon

Full name: Gianluigi Buffon

TTL: Carrara, Italy, January 28, 1978

Country: Italy

Height: 191 cm

Position: Goalkeeper

Biography of Gianluigi Buffon

Buffon began his career at Parma. He became one of the talented young goalkeepers in the late 90s and helped Parma win the UEFA Cup and Coppa Italia. Buffon was then bought by Juventus in 2001 and became the world's most expensive goalkeeper. At Juve, Buffon became a core goalkeeper in a dozen years. Buffon's achievements with Juventus include 7 Italian League titles and 3 Champions League runners-up.

Together with the Italian national team, Buffon has incised 175 caps, the most record for Italian players and has the most caps in Europe and the second highest in the world. Buffon won the 2006 World Cup trophy and became a EURO 2012 runner-up. He is said to be one of the best goalkeepers of all time.

Buffon won the European Footballer of the Year award in 2003 and was runner up for the 2006 Ballon d'Or. Buffon was ranked 3rd Best Player in Europe in 2017. He also won many best goalkeeper awards in Italy (Serie A), Europe (UEFA) or world (FIFA).

Club Career Gianluigi Buffon

1991-1995 - Parma (junior career)

1995-2001 - Parma

2001-2018 - Juventus

1997-2017 - Italian national team (175 plays)

Gianluigi Buffon's achievements

With the Italian national team

FIFA World Cup: 2006

Runner up UEFA EURO: 2012

3rd place in the Confederations Cup: 2013

UEFA EURO U-21: 1996

With Parma

Coppa Italia: 1998–99

Supercoppa Italiana: 1999

UEFA Cup: 1998–99

With Juventus

Italian Serie A: 2001–02, 2002–03, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17

Italian Serie B: 2006–07

Coppa Italia: 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17

Supercoppa Italiana: 2002, 2003, 2012, 2013, 2015

Champions League runners up: 2002-03, 2014-15, 2016-17

Gianluigi Buffon's record

Runner up Ballon D'Or: 2006

UEFA Club Footballer of the Year: 2002–03

FIFA World Cup Best Goalkeeper Award: 2006

FIFA World Cup All-Star Team: 2006

The Best FIFA Goalkeeper: 2017

FIFPro World XI: 2006, 2007, 2017

UEFA EURO Team of the Tournament: 2008, 2012

UEFA Team of the Year: 2003, 2004, 2006, 2016

UEFA Club Goalkeeper of the Year: 2002–03, 2016–17

Best European Goalkeeper: 2003, 2016, 2017

Rank 3 UEFA Best Player in Europe Award: 2017

4th Rank of The Best FIFA Men’s Player: 2017

Bravo Award: 1999

Serie A Goalkeeper of the Year Award: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2014, 2015, 2016

Serie A Team of the Year: 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016

ESM Team of the Year: 2002–03, [529] 2016–17 [530]

IFFHS World’s Best Goalkeeper: 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007

IFFHS Best goalkeeper of the decade: 2000-2010

IFFHS Best goalkeeper of the 21st Century

UEFA Champions League Team of the Season: 2014-15, 2016-17

France Football World XI: 2015

UEFA Euro All-Time XI: 2016

Golden Foot: 2016

Well that's the info profile and biodata of Gianluigi Buffon, biography of Gianluigi Buffon, Gianluigi Buffon's career and complete records and achievements of Gianluigi Buffon. Gianluigi Buffon is indeed known as one of the legends of Juventus and the Italian national team and is considered as one of the best goalkeepers of all time.