Gianluigi Buffon | 2001-2004 | 2004-2007 | 2011-2013

[Albo7]

Club: Juventus FC



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Club: Juventus FC





Probably the most solid Buffon ever and surely the most mental. Maturity has come for Gigi in the years before and after Calciopoli, becoming one of the symbols of Juve and being one of the few who has to handle the team out of Serie B after the scandal; possibly the best player of WC 2006, even better than his team mate Cannavaro (who received the Ballon d'Or), nobody really looked to beat him and he was honoured by IFFHS as the best keeper on the world 4 times in a row (2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007).



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Club: Juventus FC





INFO:

Gigi Buffon is the greatest goalkeeper in current decade and considered by many journalists as the greatest goalkeeper ever in history of Italian series A even above the great legend like Dino Zoff. Buffon has superb attributes for being goalkeeper, very agile, perfect reading of the game and becoming one of the most consist keepers ever. He unbelievably became the long-period first choice GK of Parma since 1995 when he was just 17 year olds. He still holds the most expensive goalkeeper record with 51.5 million pound for moving to Juventus. He had to play in Italian Serie B for one season because punishment to Juventus match fixing scandel. In world cup 2006, He kept consecutive five matches clean sheets in addition to 453 minute without conceding. He has already won 43 clean sheets for Italy national team. All in all, He has already been regarded among the best goalkeeper of all-time.


HONOURS:

UEFA Champions League Most Valuable Player: 2003
UEFA Club Football Awards Best Goalkeeper: 2003
Serie A Goalkeeper of the Year: 2002, 2003
Onze d'Or (Best Goalkeeper): 2003
UEFA Team of the Year: 2003, 2004
IFFHS Best Goalkeeper: 2003, 2004


VIDEOS:

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ADDITIONAL LINKS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianluigi_Buffon

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianluigi_Buffon

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianluigi_Buffon

http://www.gianluigibuffon.it/index.html

http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/stati ... index.html

[Korinov]

It's usually more a matter of we statmakers having less reserves about giving classic players red and orange values than to current-day players.

I'd also like to see him on 97 DEF too, not sure about GKS.

[Albo7]

His positional sense and ability to masterfully use his body as a wall while doing some really well timed and well thought runs, making him do the save, without even having to make the save, forcing the opposition foward to strike the ball far from the net, or making him strike the ball near him, while he pulls out some crazy save, always was his trademark. I'd say Def shall be higher than RES or KS. One of the best I've seen in using his brain in the net, thing that most of the keepers lack. If nobody disagrees I'll be updating it to 97.

[Albo7]

Updated with my set.

[vinnie]

You know, Konami gave Buffon pretty much the highest AGI value at 87... no point here, just interesting to me.

[PanteraIFD]

Why does Classic Gigi have better pass stats than current?

[Albo7]

You know, Konami gave Buffon pretty much the highest AGI value at 87... no point here, just interesting to me.

I simply can't see him being that agile. I may be wrong though, but I think there were other more important factors contributing to his way of playing, other than his agility. As I've already said, His brilliance in positioning and being a "safe" keeper, is what's the most important thing for him. and such a high agility is not needed, but if it's a problem, we can discuss it further.

Why does Classic Gigi have better pass stats than current?

Listen, I haven't followed a lot of current Gigi, I've followed much more the classic one, so I think this question should be asked in the current Gigi thread.

[Korinov]

I've added the 2011-2012 set to the database, and honestly it looks like it could use some tweaks from our current set in the "present" database.

[vinnie]

up tweaks or down tweaks? i was about to post a comment in current buffon

[jurgens]

just inconsistencies in the set, sp and a few other things are supposed to be psd values. I disagree with any lower than 94 resp/98 gks though

[Korinov]

I was talking specially about Ment/TW.

[vinnie]

i was going to say that i think current buffon can even still hae 93/94 RES, i really see no inferiority in this aspect compared to Szczesny, Hart, Courtois...

On Ment, you think he should get the red MEN he currently has? that's seb's idea, i trust himon that. TW i thought was ok, i was thinking current Buffon has a slightly too high TW, that mid greens is suitable for how he interacts with his teammates.

Maybe this should be in current buffon thread

[jurgens]

When/why was the update I gave him months ago over-wrote?

[Korinov]

Last edited by me on early July... but I only changed his Age if I remember correctly.

[Diego]

Albo set ?

[Albo7]

My set's been in here since May. Do you mean the second set?

[jurgens]

I updated him before May when I overhauled most keepers.

[Albo7]

Hm, if you think that set represents Buffon better than this one, then update him back.

[jurgens]

It's not about what I think, if theres to be an update to over-write a set I've worked on. I'd like to discuss it.

[Albo7]

My bad then, I thought it was the old set I was overwriting.

[vinnie]

his response is at least 97/98 for prime buffon.