Gigi Buffon has returned to Parma, the club where she began her incredible professional career 26 years ago
. The one that was an open secret for weeks, became official this morning, with a video that ran through social networks around the world immediately. The goalkeeper appears at night at the Tardini Stadium, and digging under a goal he finds a box with Superman's jersey, the one he often wore on his first adventure there, and his old club elastic.
"I am back", he tells President Kyle Krause the Italian, who after 20 years at Juventus (with a hiatus from a course at PSG), returns to his origins, the "crazy project" he needed to continue having motivations with 43 years.
He is back where he belongs.
He is back home. # SupermanReturns 🔙🟡🔵 @ gianluigibuffon @Kyle_J_Krause @ParmaCalcio_en pic.twitter.com/bh2FO6P8YX
- Parma Calcio 1913 (@ 1913parmacalcio) June 17, 2021
He is arriving as a free agent and his salary figures have not been released, but it is clear that for Gigi it was not a question of money.
For his Parma he will play in Serie B, something he already did for Juve after the Calciopoli scandal, and he hopes to win back Serie A immediately to aim for another dream: the World Cup in Qatar as the third goalkeeper.
Mancini has not closed the doors, and the exbianconero said "if they want me, I'm here", although there will be time to think about that.
Now, Buffon is psyched in the next course and in the tricks of Series B.
It will be strange to see him there again ...