Two years later, FC Barcelona converted to a professional club and signed two stars in 1919. The club was founded as Football Club Barcelona in 1899 by a group led by the Swiss Joan Gamper and developed into a symbol of Catalonia's cultural identity and Catalanism, particularly under the Franco dictatorship. For the 2021/22 season, Buffon returned to Parma to the club, now renamed Parma Calcio 1913, and signed a contract until June 30, 2023, which was extended by one year to 2024 on February 28, 2022. From 2001 to 2018, Buffon was the most expensive goalkeeper in the world with a transfer fee of over 50 million euros. For the Dutchman Denzel Dumfries from PSV Eindhoven, however, a transfer fee of 13.70 million euros was paid. Sirigu only played in the meaningless third group game against Ireland. The last group game of the 2012 European Championship finals on June 17, 2012 against Germany was his last game for the Danish national team. There, the Italian team under Cesare Prandelli was able to qualify for the final against Spain after victories against England, when he saved a shot in the penalty shootout, and Germany, which they lost 4-0. Buffon quickly became the backing of the U-21 national soccer team and took part with them at the U-21 European Championships in Spain in 1996.
Under Thomas Tuchel, Buffon alternated with Alphonse Aréola in goal. His substitute Francesco Toldo performed well there and contested his position in goal. During the European Championship game against Italy on June 14, 2004 in Guimarães (0-0), he was spat on by Italian player Francesco Totti after he had provoked him. After the game against Uruguay (0-1) he was voted Man of the Match, although the Italian national team was eliminated in the preliminary round due to this defeat. Sky will also offer a live stream of the game. The 2014 tournament took place from July 24th to August 4th, 2014 in a total of twelve US stadiums, one game was played in Toronto, Canada. In the summer of 2011, ex-Juventus captain Antonio Conte, who had played with Buffon until 2004, became Turin's coach. At the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup, Buffon and Italy reached the game for third place against Uruguay, which ended 2-2 after extra time and had to be decided on penalties. Italy lost the quarter-final against Germany on penalties, in which Buffon was able to save Thomas Müller's penalty. Italy was eliminated in the preliminary round. Various camps will start in Italy in summer 2021.
Retrieved on September 18, 2021 (English). At the end of September, Buffon overtook Paolo Maldini as the Italian player with the most professional appearances at club level when he made his second appearance for Juventus since his return in the win over SPAL Ferrara. Messi also holds the record for the most competitive and European goals. On March 24, 2017, Buffon played his 168th international match in the World Cup qualifiers against Albania, thus taking over the record for the most international matches played by a European. In the preliminary round game against Romania, he saved a penalty and thus prevented his team from being eliminated early. During his time at AC Parma, he showed off a T-shirt with the fascist slogan "Boia chi molla" ("Hanged be he who gives up"), for which he ended up before the sports association's disciplinary committee. During the event 58. 806 players completed the task and then made Buffon available as a crew member for one of their tanks. The most successful player in Serie A is Gianluigi Buffon with ten Italian championships won, followed by Leonardo Bonucci and Giorgio Chiellini with nine championships, Andrea Barzagli, Giovanni Ferrari and Giuseppe Furino with eight championships each.