Buffon: My maximum – keep playing until 2023

Gianluigi Buffon, Juventus’ never-ending goalkeeper, unable to decide when is the right moment to hang up his shoes, but at least he punched in today (Wednesday) a maximum date, when in his interview with the British ‘Guardian’ he stated that 2023 is the last year he may still play football .

The 43-year-old Italian who started his career at Parma in 1995 also did not rule out retiring at the end of the season, thus continuing to dispel fog around his future: “Look, in my head there is the maximum target, which is June 2023. To play at the end of the season, in about four months. ”

Gianluigi Buffon (Reuters)

Since Andrea Pirlo was appointed Bianconeri coach, the goalkeeper has made just 10 appearances, the last of which was on 22 February against Crotone in which he kept a clean sheet for the fifth time this season. 20 of the 26 seasons in Buffon’s career were at Juventus, where he played 681 times, when he also recorded 10 championships with her and reached 3 Champions League finals.

“Why did I join Yuba again? I am a big believer in fate, ”the goalkeeper added,“ when the show came I thought to myself that it is impossible to know what the reason is, but that there is one last big story to write, but I have to be real, part of the consideration to get was also the ego. At no point in my life did I think I would play so much. ”