I could retire at 55 Buffon has no plan
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Italy great Gianluigi Buffon has no plans to call quits on his playing career in the near https://www.shopprodevils.com/will-butcher-kids-jersey future, joking I could retire at 55.The veteran goalkeeper made his Parma debut back in 1995, aged 17, and returned to the Stadio Ennio Tardinilast year after a season with Paris Saint-Germain either side of two spells with Juventus.Buffon, who has made a record 176 appearances for the Azzurri, played 26 times for Parma in Serie B in the 2021-22 season as theyfinished 12th in the Italian second tier.The 2006 World Cup winnersigned https://www.shopprodevils.com/jimmy-hayes-jersey a one-year contract extension last season,meaning he will continue playing football past the age of 46 in 2024.As Buffon prepares for his 28th season as a profe sional footballer, he suggested he has no desire to hang up his boots just yet. I could retire at 55! he told reporters at a news conference in Ducali on https://www.shopprodevils.com/marcus-johansson-jersey Friday. I played ten years in Parma in my first life, then twenty years at Juve, one in Paris and now I close the circle again in Emilia.And Im not 100 years old. For ten years I have been thinking about when I will stop,but then I always continue.I have had important experiences that have allowed me to know football, butImnot 100 per centsure Illstay in this world when I do retire . Maybe Ill experience something else.Buffon has played alongside some of the finest https://www.shopprodevils.com/steve-santini-men-jersey footballers in the world during his glittering career, in which he has lifted 11 league titles, 14 domestic cups and an unlikely UEFA Cup with Parma in 1999.The 44-year-old has also finished runner-up in the Champions League on three occasions, and puts Neymar, Cristiano Ronaldo and Kylian Mbappe among the best players he has featured alongside.I can say the five strongest Italians: Roberto Baggio, Francesco Totti, Ale sandro Del Piero, Andrea Pirlo and Antonio Ca sano, he added.For foreigners, I would https://www.shopprodevils.com/cory-schneider-men-jersey say Lillian Thuram, Neymar, Mbappe, CR7 and Ibra Zlatan Ibrahimovic .