Buffon Admits that it was to a step of fichar by the Barça!

To his 40 years, Gianluigi Buffon keeps on being the indisputable owner of the goal of the Juventus of Turín. The Italian goalkeeper carries a lot of years being the big Italian referent so much in his team as in the national selection and this Thursday has announced that will leave to be player of the Juve at the end of season

Buffon Has turned into legend in the Italian team, but the history had been able to change totally in the year 2001, in which it took a key decision in his career. The FC Barcelona was interested in incorporating him and the then president of the Barcelona entity, Joan Gaspart, programmed several meetings to try carry to the guardameta Italian.

"Before fichar by the Juve could go to the Barcelona, but my father recommended me that fichara by Juve"

The own Buffon confessed that it was near of fichar by the FC Barcelona 17 years ago. But that his father recommended him the Juventus: "Before fichar by the Juve could go to the Barcelona, but my father recommended me that fichara by Juve. I give him the thank you because the Juventus has given me a lot of satisfactions, and the Barça of this period is not the one of now".

Then, Gianluigi Buffon was player of the Parma and until Silvano Martina, representative of the goalkeeper, recognised, in an interview with Il Ran dello Sport, that fichar by the Barça was very near. "Buffon Had it practically done with the Barcelona, already was fichado, but at the end the Juve offered him more and no think it to you twice to give the 'himself' to the bianconeri".

Silvano Martina confessed that the mythical cancerbero Italian was not present in the negotiations with the FC Barcelona, although at the end it gave the seen well for fichar by the Juventus: "'Gianluigi Buffon was not neither in Italy when the negotiations were about to to crystallise. At the end, however, it decanted by the Juventus of Turín"

No arrepiente to have decided by the Juventus

The own Silvano Martina has admitted that Gianluigi Buffon is not arrepentido to take the decision to refuse the offer of the FC Barcelona, since it has turned into legend in a club like the Juventus: "it has not regretted it in all these years, because it has played to the big in one of the more big and prestigious clubs of the world".