Buffon or Real?

On June 3, in the final of the Juventus Champions League, he will clash with the Royal Club

The Madrid army, led by Cristiano Ronaldo, is the favorites. But the "old Signora" has an unlucking Gianluigi nicknamed Superman - a goalkeeper capable of anything.

A week ago, in one women's magazine, I accidentally stumbled upon a crossword puzzle, in which there was such a “glamorous” question: “The legendary Italian goalkeeper, whose rich collection of trophies there is no Champions Cup?” I don’t know how many fair sexes were identified in a charming bearded man (photo attached) of a 39-year-old buffer, but that is not the point. The thing is that the players at, excuse me, the field life is rarely awarded with such an epithet. Ask at least Messi with the same Ronaldo. But Gigi is a special case.

He began to play football in an era, when there were no twitter or Facebooks, and it was possible to subscribe only to a newspaper or a magazine. For the first time I saw Buffon almost 20 years ago: at the end of October, in an butt match with the Russian team for the right to go to the mundial, he went on the field of the Dynamo stadium (with wooden benches) in heavy rain, replacing Pianluka Palyuk. And he missed the Motorgol from Fabio Cannavaro, who in 2006 will receive the Golden Ball and ahead of this vote ... Buffon, recognized at the same time as the best goalkeeper of the planet. Who forgot: at the World Championships in Germany, not counting the notorious autogol, he pulled out only one ball from the grid - after a blow from the penalty spot Zinedin Zidan, the current leader of the Madrid Real Madrid ...

... In 1999, a native of Carrara will not miss from the formidable “Marseille” under the roof of “Luzhnikov” and will win from the UEFA Cup that has now been reclining in Bose Parma. And soon he will be in Juventus for a record 75 billion lire, which will not abandon even when the club, convicted of the “agreements”, will send him to the first division. It is noteworthy that Buffon himself, who refused in 2008 from the transition to Manchester City, offering him fantastic 15 million euros per year, was not at all involved in any scandals. Well, perhaps for the use of a fake diploma in jurisprudence, he once had once almost thundered in prison for 48 months.

Batman - of those goalkeepers who surprise on the green lawn, and not beyond. There is nothing to be surprised there. He owns a restaurant, happy in marriage with TV presenter Hilaria d'Amiko, has three sons (two from a previous marriage with the Czech model Alena Sheredyova). It always responds warmly about colleagues in the workshop. But from his records, which he does not stop setting in pre -retirement age, blows the roof. Someone will say: behind the backs of such defense monsters as Kiellini, Barzali, Bonucci, you can, in principle, smoke bamboo. Undoubtedly. But the class of the salesman is not to miss those rare shots that will not have time to prevent three cool defender-bluerrier. And Buffonische, as the commentator George Cherdantsev once called him, holds the brand, continuing to fall into various symbolic teams over and over again.

For example, a year ago, he created superposition, having played 11 consecutive matches in the National Championship for zero. In the current Champions League, Gigi, in total, kept the gate on the castle for 720 minutes, having made 21 salvation (in just 11 meetings, opponents managed to upset him only three times). Italian is very accurately about the hourly team of Italy (Buffon is a record holder and, by the number of Skuadra Adzurra, 161, her former mentor Marcello Leppi spoke out: “I hardly recall his mistakes. Of course, he admits misses, but the shortcomings in his game are not remembered. ”

Buffon himself, who wants to come to Russia to his fifth (!) World Forum, considers his drawback only that he cannot raise the coveted Eurotrofei above his head. “I want Wikipedia to be written about me:“ I won the Champions League ” - these are the words of the goalkeeper himself. With this vessel, Gigi really does not develop a novel: two attempts to take possession of the “eared” cup ended unsuccessfully. In the final of the season-2002/03, although he was recognized as the best player of the tournament (the only case when the goalkeeper was awarded), in the Black and White Penalty, Milana lost. And a couple of years ago, in the decisive battle, the Barcelona devils - Rakitich, Suarez and Neymar - were inflicted by Jiji and Juve of three holes ...

And on Saturday, Cardiff at the Millennium stadium is probably the last chance of the 105 rounds of the veteran who jumped over the “Juve” in this competition to reach the dream. And the best opponent than Real Madrid, who has 11 eurochosh women over the bosom and who never returned on the shield from the finals, and it is difficult to come up with such an enterprise. Here you can “creamy” and for the sad epilogue of 1998 avenge, and simultaneously prevent Ramos, Bale, Marcelo and other cool “queens”, who were keys to the fortresses of enemies in all previous fights, jump to the top twice in a row. But the main thing: to deprive the joy of the goal by Cristiano Ronaldo, whose statistics affects no less than the “crackers” of the first number of Turinians, is always invaluable.

In addition, Dzhanluji Buffon Muscco Stop Truck has not yet succeeded: the tearful Portuguese in all his matches against “Juve” sent the ball to the net ...