Gianluigi Buffon will turn 44 next month. But he still doesn’t plan to hang up his football boots and goalkeeper gloves. He is currently wearing the shirt of second division side Parma, where he started his career 26 years ago. This season, he saved as many as three of the six penalty shots he faced, however Parma as a team are not performing well and sit 13th on the Seria B table.Buffon gave an interview for TUDN.com and revealed some interesting details. For example, he intends to keep on going with his goalkeeping career and that Parma may not be his last club. He says he would like to try his luck across the Atlantic.”The United States or Mexico. These are experiences I would like to have. But only if we bring back Parma to Serie A. In that case, I could spend one year in America”, says Buffon.Juventus spend over 500,000 USD per day on players’ salariesHowever, a much more interesting part of the interview was regarding his former teammate Cristiano Ronaldo and how the Portuguese – loosely translated, destroyed the team spirit in the Juventus locker room. Buffon thus joined his friends Giorgio Chiellini and Leonardo Bonucci, who had similar objections to the arrival of the famous goalscorer to Turin.’Juventus had the chance to win the Champions League the first year he arrived, which was the year I was at Paris Saint-Germain, and I couldn’t figure out what happened.’ Buffon told TUDN.com, in relation to Juve’s quarter-final elimination to Ajax.Tue, 22/02, 23.00: (3.00) VILLAREAL (3.20) JUVENTUS (2.60)’When I returned, I worked with CR7 for two years and we did well together, but I think Juventus lost that DNA of being a team.’We reached the Champions League final in 2017 because we were a side full of experience, but above all we were a single unit and there was this competition for places within the group that was very strong. We lost that with Ronaldo.’Buffon, just like the whole Juventus community, was obsessed with winning the Champions League and tried everything to achieve that goal. He even went to Paris Saint-Germain to try and win it.##EDITORS_CHOICE##”The fact that I did not win the Champions League has always kept my competitive spirit alive. If I had won it, I would probably have retired a long time ago. I would not have goals to fight for.”He was also asked about the goalkeepers of today and if he sees Gianluigi Donnarumma as his successor.”At the moment, you have five or six top goalkeepers. Oblak, Courtois, Ter Stegen, Neuer, Donnarumma … And none of them stand out too much from the others. However, Donnarumma could be the one. He has the potential to surpass all others in the next five years.”
