Former Italy goalkeeper, Gianluigi Buffon, on Wednesday confirmed his retirement from football at the age of 45.
Buffon terminated his contract with Parma which was set to run until June 2024 before confirming his retirement.
The Italian posted a video on his Twitter account on Wednesday which read: “That’s all folks! You gave me everything. I gave you everything. We did it together.”
Regarded as one of the best goalkeepers of all time, Buffon spent two decades at Juventus, either side of a 12-month spell at Paris Saint-Germain in 2018-19.
He made his professional debut for Parma aged 17 in 1995 and four years later won the Coppa Italia, UEFA Cup and Italian Supercoppa at the club. He moved to Juventus in 2001 in a €52 million ($57m) transfer, a then-world record fee for a goalkeeper.
At Juve, he won 10 Serie A titles in 19 seasons, as well as the Serie B championship in 2006-07 when the club played in the second tier after they were relegated as a result of the Calciopoli match-fixing scandal.