Gianluigi Buffon

About Gianluigi Buffon

In 1995, a young Italian goalkeeper pulled on the Parma shirt for the first time. Gianluigi Buffon, born in 1978, would go on to play for 3 clubs over the following 28 years. Now retired, Buffon left the game having last played for Parma in 2023.

Club by club, the full journey looks like this: Parma (1995–2001), then Juventus (2001–2018), then Paris Saint-Germain (2018–2019), then Juventus (2019–2021), then Parma (2021–2023). Every transfer on that list changed the trajectory in its own way.

The defining association was with Juventus, a spell of roughly 17 years that anchors the whole career grid. The move abroad came in 2018, when Paris Saint-Germain in France came calling. In total the journey passed through Italy, France — the kind of multi-league trajectory that makes Daily Play riddles genuinely tricky.

On the stat sheet: 1150 recorded appearances.

A couple of details make this career stand out. He comes from a sporting family; his mother was a discus thrower and his father a weightlifter. He holds the record for the longest streak without conceding a goal in Serie A (974 minutes). He is one of the few players to have participated in five FIFA World Cups.

Think you would have recognized this career from the grid alone? A 28-year path starting at Parma is exactly the test when Gianluigi Buffon appears in a Daily Play riddle. Study the timeline below and judge how quickly the pieces would have clicked.