According to Fabrizio Romano, Gianluigi Buffon has made the decision to retire from Professional football. His retirement will be made official in the next couple of days.
Gianluigi Buffon is expected to terminate his contract with Parma and announce his retirement from football at the age of 45.
He is widely regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time. He is one of the few recorded players to have made over 1,100 professional career appearances.
On 19 May, he started in Juventus’s 2–1 victory over Atalanta in the 2021 Coppa Italia Final, his final and 685th appearance for the club; after the match, he was given the honour of lifting the title, the sixth of his career, equalling Roberto Mancini as the player with the most title victories.
On 17 June 2021, after days of speculation following his departure from Juventus, newly-relegated Parma announced the return of Buffon through a short video posted on the club’s official Twitter account. Upon winning the Coppa Italia in his last season at Juventus, many expected that it was going to be the end of his career.
Instead, he announced that he was going to join his boyhood club and this marked 20 years since he left Parma for Juventus in 2001. On 20 August 2021, Buffon made his first appearance, conceding a late equaliser in a 2–2 away draw against Frosinone.
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