italian former football goalkeeper

For other people named Buffon, see Buffon ( disambiguation ) Lorenzo Buffon ( italian pronunciation : [ loˈrɛntso bufˈfɔn, -ˈfon ], [ 3 ] [ 4 ] friulian : [ buˈfoŋ ] ; born 19 December 1929 ) is an italian early football player who played as a goalkeeper. Throughout his career, he played 277 times for italian club A.C. Milan, and besides late played for their city rivals Inter Milan, american samoa well as other italian clubs, winning five Serie A titles. At the international horizontal surface, he was capped for the italian external side on 15 occasions, representing his area at the 1962 FIFA World Cup.

Buffon is wide regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers of his generation, and as one of Italy ‘s greatest ever goalkeepers. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] Alongside goalkeeper Lev Yashin, he was chosen to represent the FIFA All-Star squad during the 1960s. [ 6 ]

Club career [edit ]

Born in Majano, in the province of Udine, overall, Buffon played 15 seasons ( 365 games ) in the Serie A for A.C. Milan ( 1949–59 ), Genoa ( 1959–60 ), Inter Milan ( 1960–63 ), and Fiorentina ( 1963–64 ). He began his career with Portogruaro in 1948 before moving to Milan the comply season. With Milan, he made his Serie A debut on 15 January 1950, keeping a clean sheet in a 1–0 home winnings over Sampdoria ; he played 277 games for the club, and gained international prominence as he won four Serie A titles, and two Latin Cups, despite rival for a place in the starting line-up with fellow keeper Narciso Soldan. With Milan, Buffon besides reached the final of the 1957–58 european Cup, and the semi-finals of the 1955–56 european Cup, where the italian club was defeated by eventual champions real Madrid on both occasions. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] With 300 appearances for Milan, he is one of only four goalkeepers in the club ‘s history to have reached this milestone, behind only christian Abbiati ( 380 ), Sebastiano Rossi ( 330 ), and Dida ( 302 ). [ 7 ] In his belated career, Buffon foremost joined Genoa for a season in 1959, and subsequently moved to Milan ‘s cross-city rivals Inter in 1960, on both occasions as a replacement for his perceive career rival, Giorgio Ghezzi, who had rather joined Buffon ‘s former baseball club Milan in 1959. [ 8 ] With Inter, Buffon won another Serie A claim during the 1962–63 season under director Helenio Herrera, who would coach Inter to greater domestic and european successes in by and by years. [ 9 ] During his three seasons with Inter, he besides reached the semi-finals of the 1960–61 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, although his best placement in the Coppa Italia was a quarter-final finish. In total, Buffon won five Serie angstrom titles throughout his career. After spending a season with Fiorentina, making only a single appearance in the league, he retired after a season with Ivrea in 1965. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 10 ]

International career [edit ]

Buffon was besides capped 15 times for the Italy national team between 1958 and 1962 ; he made his international debut in a 2–2 friendly home draw against France, on 9 September 1958, [ 11 ] and belated represented his country as their captain and starting goalkeeper in the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile. He made two appearances throughout the tournament, keeping two clean sheets in a 0–0 draw against West Germany, and in a 3–0 win over Switzerland on 7 June, his final external appearance, while he was replaced in finish by Carlo Mattrel for Italy ‘s second group match against hosts Chile, which ended in a 2–0 get the better of. Italy were controversially eliminated in the first round of the tournament. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 12 ]

style of play [edit ]

An acrobatic yet effective and dependable goalkeeper, Buffon was known in particular for his positional sense, handling, and efficient dash of goalkeeping, which enabled him to produce acrobatic saves without having to resort to histrionics ; his spectacular shot-stopping abilities earned him the nickname Lorenzo il Magnifico. Although he was a fairly grandiloquent and physically potent keeper, he was less effective at coming off his line to collect crosses, and performed better between the posts. Despite his reputation as a by and large solid and first keeper, he was besides occasionally criticised throughout his career for being discrepant, and for his mentality, adenine well as for letting his mentality affect his performances at times. [ 1 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ]

personal life [edit ]

Following his retirement from professional football, Buffon worked as a youth talent scout for Milan. [ 6 ] He is related to goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon ; [ 6 ] Lorenzo is a cousin of Gianluigi ‘s grandfather. [ 6 ] Lorenzo is besides remembered for his marriage to italian actress and television personality Edy Campagnoli, who had previously been in a relationship with his sensed career rival, Giorgio Ghezzi. [ 6 ] [ 15 ]

Honours [edit ]

A.C. Milan [ 10 ]
Inter Milan [ 10 ]

Individual

  • FIFA XI: 1963[6]
  • A.C. Milan Hall of Fame[16]

References [edit ]