Gianluigi Buffon

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Biography

Italian footballer

  • Primary profession
  • Actor
  • Country
  • Italy
  • Nationality
  • Italian
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 28 January 1978
  • Place of birth
  • Carrara
  • Residence
  • Turin·Carrara
  • Spouses
  • Alena Seredova
  • Knows language
  • Italian language
  • Member of
  • Italy national under-18 football team·Juventus F.C.·Italy national football team·Parma Calcio 1913·Italy national under-17 football team·Italy national under-16 football team·Italy national under-23 football team·Juventus F.C.·Italy national under-21 football team·Paris Saint-Germain F.C.

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Trivia

Started playing in serie A in 1995.

Italian goalkeeper, one of the best in the world.

He was engaged to his wife Alena Seredova from 2005 to their marriage in 2011.

December 28th, 2007: his fiance (now ex-wife) Alena Seredova gave birth to her and Gigis first child, a boy named Louis Thomas. He was named in honor of Thomas NKono, a Cameroonian retired goalkeeper.

He has two sisters, Veronica and Guendalina.

October 31st, 2009: his fiance (now ex-wife) Alena Seredova gave birth to her and Gigis second child, a boy named David Lee.

He has declared that he decided to be a goalkeeper after seeing Thomas NKonos performances at the 1990 FIFA World Cup. NKono was a Cameroonian goalkeeper, considered one of the best African goalkeepers of all time.

He comes from a family of Italian athletes. His mother, Maria Stella, was a discus thrower and his father, Adriano, was a weightlifter. Gigis two sisters, Veronica and Guendalina, played volleyball for the Italian National Volleyball Team. His uncle, Dante Masocco, was a basketball player who also represented the National Team.

Is in a relationship with Ilaria DAmico since 2014. They have a son together.

January 6, 2016: his girlfriend Ilaria DAmico gave birth to her son named Leopoldo Mattia Buffon.

Quotes

When you have the chance to play a Champions League final, you have to win it.

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