Italy: Gianluigi Buffon revisits his early years – Foot – ITA

It's an original way of revisiting your career and your life. In an imaginary letter published in "The Players' Tribune" and addressed to seventeen-year-old Gianluigi Buffon, the Gianluigi Buffon of 2019 (41 years old, a World Cup won in 2006, 176 selections in the Italian team, in particular) returns to certain moments of his last twenty-five years.

Returning to the fold after a year at PSG, the current goalkeeper number 2 of Juventus, with whom he has played two Serie A matches this season, evokes his debut in Parma: "You should be in bed drinking hot milk. But what are you doing ? You go to a nightclub to drink a beer with your boyfriend. You only drink one, okay? But then, you're exaggerating a bit. You think you are a movie character. The strong man. That's how you manage pressure that you do not even feel. In a short time, you will be outside this disco, talking with police. Go home. Go to bed. And, above all, do not piss on a wheel of the police car. The police will not find that funny, the club will not find it funny. And you risk compromising everything you've worked so hard for »he writes in particular.

Gianluigi Buffon also looks back on the depression experienced in 2004, explaining in particular how a painting ("The walk", by Marc Chagall) had allowed him to regain the lightness of his younger years and to get out of the black hole in which he had fallen. .