{"id":10567,"date":"2022-06-22T12:58:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T12:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=10567"},"modified":"2022-06-22T12:58:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T12:58:30","slug":"gianluigi-buffon-i-want-people-to-be-sad-when-i-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=10567","title":{"rendered":"Gianluigi Buffon: I want people to be sad when I quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GIANLUIGI BUFFON SAYS his motivation is to continue proving he belongs at the highest level and wants people to be sad when he eventually ends his playing career.<\/p>\n<p>The Juventus goalkeeper was in fine form as his side won 2-0 away to Monaco, taking full control of their Champions League semi-final tie.<\/p>\n<p>It was Buffon\u2019s sixth consecutive clean sheet in the competition \u2013 a club record \u2013 with saves from Kylian Mbappe, Radamel Falcao and substitute Valere Germain proving vital.<\/p>\n<p>And the 39-year-old insists it his cementing his reputation that drives his continued success, rather than hopes of winning the Ballon d\u2019Or.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn every game I want to show that I deserve to play at this level despite my age,\u201d he told UEFA after the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI work hard every day for this objective. The day I quit, I want people to be sad about it.<\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.storeafl.com\/geelong-cats-guernsey.html' title='Geelong Cats Jersey'>Geelong Cats Jersey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if I am achieving it or not, but playing in a team like this undoubtedly helps. The important thing is to be ready when the team needs me. As long as I can do that, I consider myself satisfied and happy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt [winning the Ballon d&#8217;Or] is not something I think about, nor do I miss having it. I spend so much energy to keep myself in shape and perform well in these games, to be of use to my team-mates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buffon felt Juve approached the match perfectly as they took a huge step towards reaching a second final in three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played a great game, exactly the game that we needed to survive with a clean sheet at Monaco because they have a great attack,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don\u2019t have this solidity, but also the quality when attacking, it would all be more complicated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe said after the Barcelona tie that we want to improve day by day. We are close to our objective and it would be naive not to work as hard as possible now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The42 is on Instagram! Tap the button below on your phone to follow us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GIANLUIGI BUFFON SAYS his motivation is to continue proving he belongs at the highest level and wants people to be sad when he eventually ends his playing career. The Juventus goalkeeper was in fine form as his side won 2-0 away to Monaco, taking full control of their Champions League semi-final tie. It was Buffon\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}