Buffon Not Thinking About Retirement

By Nigel Phillips

Veteran goalkeeper, Gianluigi Buffon, is refusing to set timelines for his retirement and says he can carry on playing for ten more years.

Buffon believes it would be a mistake to set a retirement date since he has done that before but did not retire.

Buffon started as a midfielder at the Parma youth side in 2001 and switched to goalkeeping when the side's two keepers suffered injuries, and he was called upon due to his interest, height, and physical attributes.

Buffon has enjoyed an Illustrious 17-year professional career with performances that makes players, pundits, and managers to regard him as one of the greatest of all time and, by some, as the greatest ever.

The 40-year-old Italian World Cup winner, was already a Juventus legend when he moved to Paris Saint-Germain this summer,  and he told L’Equipe he does not know when he will retire.

 "In the last few years, I have learned that it would be a mistake to set a limit. At 32 I was thinking of quitting at 35. Afterward, some circumstances made me go on," he tells the French paper.

"I said to myself: 'Enough at 38, but at 38 I thought I'll stop at 40'. Today I am still here. I could stop in six months, a year or maybe ten. I do not want to ask and I do not want to know.

Buffon stresses he will not get emotional when the dust finally settles since he would have done his time.

"I am sure that I would not get emotions of this life, even in the locker room, from anything else. You have to know how to accept that there are different stages of life.”

"I know that time will come, but it will not be a surprise. And I also know that everything will be completely different from what it has been so far," Buffon concluded.