Gianluigi Buffon
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"Gianluigi" ""Gigi"" "Buffon", Order of Merit of the Italian Republic/Ufficiale OMRI, is an Italian Goalkeeper (association football)/goalkeeper who plays for and Captain (association football)/captains both Serie A club Juventus F.C./Juventus and the Italy national football team/Italy national team. Buffon is the record holder for most appearances for Italy. He is widely considered by players, pundits, and managers to be one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time, and by some, to be the greatest ever. He is also considered by some to be the best goalkeeper of his generation, and Italy's greatest ever goalkeeper. Buffon is known for his "outstanding shot-stopping" and for being "a vocal organizer of the defense and a key dressing room personality." He is currently the List of most expensive association football transfers/most expensive goalkeeper of all time following his £32.6m transfer from Parma FC/Parma to Juventus F.C./Juventus in 2001. Buffon also holds the record for the most clean sheets in Serie A, and with the Italian national team.

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The Champions League was the top priority but coming back from two goals down is tough. We threw away our chances of advancing in the first leg.

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He's not a reserve or a part-time player. He's a champion that can alter a game, whether he enters from the bench or plays from the first minute.

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The team is hurt, but we have a great desire to win. There is certainly not a lot of happiness on this team after what happened to us in the last two games, but I'm always an optimist.

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When you talk for days about a result, a 2-2 result not just a draw, and then it comes out like this, well I'm very surprised.

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Someone should be ashamed and it is not us. I'm very bitter, I really didn't believe (this would happen) with two peoples who are proud of their spirit of fair play.

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I realize the (league title) doesn't provide much excitement anymore but it's still important to bring home a trophy. I don't think this season was a failure. There are teams that don't win anything.

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