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Gianluigi Buffon – World’s best shot stopper?
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Another Italian legend who has never won the Champions League is Juventus’s goalkeeper, who also keeps for the Italian national team, Gianluigi Buffon. His status among the elite has already been set in stone. He is the only goalkeeper to have won the UEFA Club Footballer of the Year award (2003), he has won the Serie A Goalkeeper of the Year award a record nine times and was once voted the best goalkeeper of the 21st century.
But the only honour missing in his cabinet is a Champions League medal. The closest he ever came to lifting the trophy was in 2003 when Juventus faced their arch Italian rivals AC Milan at Old Trafford. The match went into a penalty shootout and Buffon managed to make two saves, denying Seedorf and Kaladze but failed to stop Shevchenko’s penalty that gave Milan the title. He has already won a World Cup with Italy in 2006. Only a Champions League trophy remains to be won to complete his resume.
