Gianluigi Buffon, goalkeeper for Parma, formerly of Juventus, and 2006 world champion, is nearing the end of his career. The Emilian team's No. 1 (45) still has one year left on his contract, but the official announcement of his likely departure will come in the coming days. Buffon will negotiate the termination of his contract with the Emilian team in order to accept the Football Federation's offer to become the successor to Gianluca Villi, and before Gigi Riva, as national team team manager. Thus, the 2006 Berlin champion agreed to close the door on the past and open the door to the future. The goalkeeper, who won a World Cup with Italy on July 9, 17 years ago, ten league titles with Juventus (an unrivaled record), six Italian Cups, seven Italian Super Cups, a UEFA Cup, a Ligue 1 and a French Super Cup with PSG, has realized that his battery has run out. No one was as tenacious in blue as SuperGigi, whose mother Maria Stella Masocco was a shot-put champion and whose uncle Dante was a good Serie A basketball player. His legend was Cameroon's number one in 1982, Thomas N'Kono. To the point where Gigi named one of her children Thomas.
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