Question answered, sort of.
By: Matthew |
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This is every where but it doesn’t matter.
Not too long ago, Roberto, over at the Juve offside, left a comment wondering how much Buffon would be worth in the open market.
Well we now at least have an idea of how much he is worth to Manchester City. At least, according to goal.com
Apparently Manchester City is willing to bid 70 million Euro’s for Gigi. Seems like a lot but the new owners have stated they want the best team. They’ve got Robinho so far. Who’s next?
Do you believe Buffon would make the move if 70 million is thrown his way? How loyal do you think he would be to Juve and would Juve and even allow it? They’ve got Manninger now, no Buffon of course, but still a decent keeper who has stated his intention to make Buffon work for the #1 spot at camp Juve.
What are your thoughts?
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Which keeper(s) do you admire?
By: Matthew | 11 Comments
That last post was half-assed and I am sorry for that. That being said let’s get into a more open discussion.
Within professional football, I guess including the MLS, which keeper(s) do you truly find to be inspiring or at least motivating in the sense that when you see them between the pipes you feel the game gets a bit more exciting. Tell me why too. I would love to know and maybe even learn a bit more about some keepers I’m not too familiar with.
Myself. I’ll tell you the very first. The first world cup I watched was in 94 but I wasn’t really paying attention to the keepers and I was pretty much into all sports. Come WC 98 I had already played my first season as a keeper in my local youth house league (Rosewood Soccer League) and had started my second (98).
I was on the same team as my best bud. We watched every game of the world cup at his place as well as recorded them on vhs. I was cheering for Argentina. Gabriel Batistuta, still to this day, amazed me and they had Carlos Roa as their keeper.
Argentina were knocked out int he semis by the Netherlands, one of the reasons I didn’t like Van der Sar for a while, but the round of 16 before hand made me really love the guy. I was young and impressionable.
England were facing Argentina which ended up going to Pk after a 2-2 draw. I remember so well, firstly, David Seaman’s moustache, secondly being on the edge of my seat. Argentina shot first. Both ENG and ARG scored their first. ARG 2nd shot was stopped by Seaman and the feeling of seeing that, as many of you will know (italy vs spain for example), was intense until Carlos Roa answered back and kept it even. The next 2 shots for both sides were in. ARG 5th shot, goal. ENG, David Batty steps up against Roa. Batty goes to his left, Roa guesses right and I freak the hell out. Running on to the street yelling “YEAHHH”. A hero was born. ENG was out and Roa was praised as a national hero.
After the WC, there were rumours about big deal transfers but Roa became heavily religious, refusing to play on Saturdays. After that he joined what they said to be a “cult” and believed the world was coming to an end. He tried a comeback but unfortunately was diagnosed with testicular cancer which pretty much ended his career even more so.
Here’s the video of said WC event. (Take that Jagger, you’re precious Brits have nothing, NOTHING)
Euro 00 I ended up finding Toldo. I was unaware of Buffon, he broke his hand before the tourny, and Toldo was in turn chosen to start. He was pretty brilliant in that competition. He did all he could do to secure a future with the team and after his performance I thought it seemed pretty concrete. But there’s only so much you can do when you have a keeper like Buffon behind you, waiting to shine and show his worth. Toldo ended up being an unused reserve for Italy for the next WC and Euro. I started watching serie A in 02. It was great change or the EPL and I started watching a team called Juventus. You’ll never guess who caught my attention over at Juve.
Anything I had seen before in keepers had been blown away by a man they called Gigi. I respect many many keepers. I don’t really hate for the sake of hating. But for me, there is only 1 who continues to blow my mind, and that is Gianluigi Buffon.
Anyway, here’s a funny video. Toldo scoring on Buffon. I bet you that made him feel a bit better. (mind the commentator)
Category: Gigi Buffon NewsKeeper of the year 2008?
By: Matthew | 3 Comments
A keeper can only do so much for his team and we are aware of Buffon’s ability. Whether you argue against him or for him I think you have to be pretty daft to say he’s not amazing. I’m very curious though, to see if he will be able to retain his IFFHS keeper of the year award. I think just like last year but probably even more so, he’s going to have strong competition from both Cech and Casillas for the top spot for 2008.
Cech had a pretty solid year with Chelsea. Yeah he made messed up in Euro but I think you should have like a get out of jail free card. I like Cech though, I think he’s brilliant but I feel his head injury holds him back. That’s just opinion but after suffering something like that it’s hard to believe you’re going to be right back to 100%
I feel the strongest competition will be from Casillas this year. The Real Madrid keeper helped Real win La Liga the past 2 years. He was the first keeper-captain to win the Euro. He’s only 27 and pretty much in his prime.
He was good at Euro but I didn’t think he was too busy a lot of the time. Yeah, he saved two shots, versus Buffon’s 1, in PK against Italy and guessed the right way every time. Looks pretty good in all honesty.
Buffon’s year included back pains and third place finish. I would be lying if I said he wasn’t on top of his game for the most part. He made an unforgettable save against Mutu at Euro, keeping the nation alive and reminding everyone why he’s number 1. He’s 30 years old and has still got it but will it be enough? You tell me.
By the way, Roberto asked a good question. How much do guys think he could possibly be worth on the transfer market or rather do you believe he’d be worth more or less than his initial transfer to Juve?
Category: Gigi Buffon NewsYes Buffon, you tell them.
By: Matthew | 7 Comments
Thanks for the warm welcome people, we’ve got a coalition of Juventus fans here at the offside. Pretty awesome.
Buffon. The man is confident and has spirit. He told goal.com, that he believes The Bianconeri can do it this CL. With all the fans behind them he’s confident that it will only aide in their quest to lift the coveted trophy.
Yeah yeah, the size difference, whatever. MS Paint forever.
What I like about Buffon (as an off the field athlete) is that he’s usually pretty reasonable on the discussions at hand. (ex) On winning the CL, “If we believe in it then everything is possible.” Fuck yeah it is. I can’t argue with that. Not with Juve at least.
The only thing this can possibly result in is all the Juve fans standing tall and backing the team even more so. With our fantastic start, the sky, or champions league finals, is the limit.
FORZA JUVE!!!
Category: Gigi Buffon NewsHappy 500th Gigi
By: Matthew | 7 Comments
Hi, I’m Matthew.
Did you people watch the game? If you didn’t, check out Alessio’s write up on it. Another good post and a great video in case you missed the action. We looked pretty solid.
Buffon celebrated his 500th professional match in style by obtaining beautiful nilness in a 4-0 vitory over Artmedia Bratislava. That’s a pretty decent way to celebrate I suppose. Would have been cooler if he had scored or some crazy shit like that but whatever, you should be happy with what you’ve got.
Note: I just want to mention Artmedia’s keeper, Ľuboš Kamenár (I’m assuming we are aware of his admiration for Buffon). If you watched the game or even if you watch the highlight video, the guy looked so down after letting the goals. He really took em to heart. I feel for the guy and if I could I would give him a pat on the back.
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