During the first episode of “Phenomena”, column of Prime Video Sports available on YouTubeLuca Toni interviewed the former World Champion Gianluigi Buffontouching on various themes.
In relation to the last parenthesis at Parma, the memories of the former Italian goalkeeper are certainly not the best, recalling the many difficulties in the locker room and how there was no dialogue between his teammates.
Despite having created a strong team to try to return to Serie A, Parma soon ended up stuck in the lower areas of the table, cut off from the playoff race, probably due to the lack of cohesion and compactness of the group.
“The difficulties I encountered in the dressing room in Parma, in the first season I didn’t find them anywhere, we didn’t share anything. There were guys from all over the world, catapulted into Parma, so there was no dialogue, no ‘It was sharing. The second year at Parma was different because in my opinion the coach and his staff were very good at involving everyone a bit.”
Precisely that year it was Lecce who rose to first place in Serie A. Unforgettable for the Salento fans are the four goals scored against Buffon’s Emilian team with Coda’s hat-trick and Strefezza’s beautiful goal.
The topics touched on during the interview were many, from his debut, to his first period in Parma with the victory of the UEFA Cup, but also the unforgettable 2006 World Cup, the unfortunate one in Korea and Japan and the sixth World Cup ever played.
Then, we also talk about Carrarese and how he is very attached to the team from his homeland, so much so that he locked himself in one of the bathrooms on the train heading to Lecce just to go and see his team play against Bologna when he was a kid.
