During the interview granted to today’s edition of Corriere della Sera, Gigi Buffon he talked about his return to Parma: “I had an offer from Barcelona as second goalkeeper – says the former Juventus goalkeeper -: I liked the idea of playing with Messi, after CR7. One day, however, I was driving, and at the radio play a song by Jovanotti that I loved very much and hadn’t heard for ten years: ‘Bella’. I look up and see the Parma toll booth where it all began.
What type is Messi? 2015 Champions League final. Half-time. I feel a hand on my back: ‘Gigi, shall we exchange shirts now?’ It was Messi. The truly great never give up. Cristiano Ronaldo? We have always had a wonderful relationship: confidences, judgments on new recruits. I saw in him great strength and also a fragility, linked to the absence of his father, to the hard path he had to face.”
Final comment on Balotelli who has decided to return to our Serie A starting from Alberto Gilardino’s Genoa: “He got a little lost, because he lost concentration on the real objective: becoming the champion he potentially was – he concludes -. However Seeing him at 34 years old at Genoa, trying again, excites me.”