Gianluigi Buffon, 43, keen on Mexico or MLS transfer but admits he’d have retired by now if he’d won Champions League

GIANLUIGI BUFFON is aiming to play in North America before he hangs up his gloves for good. The Italian turns 44 next month but still has the desire to improve and play regularly. He moved back to Parma last summer, the club he began his career at, but even bigger adventures could await. Speaking to […]

GIANLUIGI BUFFON is aiming to play in North America before he hangs up his gloves for good.

The Italian turns 44 next month but still has the desire to improve and play regularly.

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Gianluigi Buffon returned to Parma last summer and is still playing regularly[/caption]

He moved back to Parma last summer, the club he began his career at, but even bigger adventures could await.

Speaking to TUDN, Buffon said: ‘I’d like to play in Mexico or the United States, but I’d already have stopped if I had the Champions League.

“I would like to play in Mexico or the United States.

“These are experiences I would like to try, but we’ll see what happens.

“If you ask me what I’ll do in future, the truth is I don’t yet know if it’ll be as a manager or a coach. Knowing me, what I do want now is to keep improving.

“Not winning the Champions League keeps my competitive spirit alive.

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“Perhaps if I had won the Champions League, I might’ve already retired, because I would have no more important objectives to reach.”

Buffon has won 28 trophies in his career including the World Cup but a Champions league medal has eluded him.

The keeper has finished as a runner-up in the competition on three occasions, the most recent of which was in 2017.

A year after that defeat he even moved to Paris St Germain to try and get his hands on the coveted ‘big ears’ trophy, but he left France with just a Ligue Un winners medal.

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