In June 2011 in Prague, Gigi married with his long-time girlfriend Czech model Alena Seredova. In the season of 2010-2011 he missed the first half of the championship because of his recovery of the surgery from an injury in the World Cup. He stayed with Juventus when the team performance was poor, even though there were rumours that more clubs wanted to get him. In 2008 he renewed his contract with Juventus till 2013. Buffon received the Yashin-Award for his accomplishment throughout the competition. He conceded two goals during the whole chamionship, one own goal and a penalty in the final. Meanwhile Gigi won the World Championship with the Squadra Azzura. The last two Scudetti got cancelled and Juve was sent to the B league which they got back to the Serie A after winning the Cup of Serie B. Gigi got injured against Milan at the match of Trofeo Berlusconi and when he came back to the pitch after 3 month of recovery, the Calciopoli started. In the next two seasons Juve won the National Championship. This year Juve won the Scudetto and got to the Champions League Final where they lost the match against Milan. In the season of 2002-2003 Gigi was elected the world’s best goalkeeper by IFFHS (as well as in 2004, 20). In 2001 with Parma he managed to win the Italian Cup, the UEFA Cup and the Italian SuperCup.Īfter 10 years as a Parma player he got plenty of offers from Roma and Barcelona too, but he went to Juventus. He made his debut on 19th November 1995 against Milan (0-0) when he was 17 years old, and his Azzuri debut was on 29th October 1997 against Russia (1-1). In the summer of 1991, he signed to Parma, even though Milan and Bologna were interested in him too. As soon as he went to play for Bonascola, he chose his role and became a goalkeeper. He started playing football at an early age, but not as a goalkeeper, Gigi played often midfielder. Her older sisters, Veronica and Guendalina played volleyball in the League A1 and the National Team. His father, Adriano achieved results in shot putting too. Her mother, Maria Stella was Italian champion several times of shot putting and discus throwing. Gianluigi Buffon was born on 28th January 1978 into a family full of sports people.
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