Gianluigi Buffon could have started his playing days instead of Parma with Milan.
A little about the topic
The Italian player says his career would have been very different had he accepted the offer to join the Rossoneri as a young man. Buffon started his career at Parma, joining the club’s youth academy at the age of 13. After dominating the northern Italian side, helping them to UEFA Cup success in 1999, Gianluigi went on to enjoy an illustrious career with Juve and Italy, winning 10 Serie A titles and a World Cup.
What did Gianluigi Buffon say?
Now, in Parma, Gianluigi Buffon admits his life would have taken a different trajectory had he been lured to the San Siro by Milan. Instead, he chose to join Parma to team up with goalkeeping coach Ermes Fulgoni. Gianluigi Buffon told students at the La Salle Institute that Fulgoni decided to turn his life upside down, he was the one who brought him here.
According to Gianluigi Buffon, when he was a boy, in his head, until he almost decided to go and play for Milan, then he came to Parma for a trial and remembers that when he arrived, he was infected by Fulgoni’s enthusiasm, his determination and his cheerfulness, which made him change mind.
If Buffon had not met him, his sporting life would have been different, but hardly better than the one he lived. This means that sometimes you have to surrender to the sensations and emotions that certain people give them.
Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon also says that Ermes Fulgoni grabbed him that day and hit him so hard because he had a way to get him involved, a way of working that he had never seen before and that excited him. This was the decisive factor in his choice of Parma.