"Like after a drunken night": Buffon reflects on Champions League final loss to Barcelona
Lars Foster
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Translated by the editors
It will soon be 10 years since Barcelona last lifted the Champions League trophy. In the 2015 final in Berlin, Blaugrana defeated Juventus, and for Turin legend Gianluigi Buffon, that loss remains a painful memory.
Details: The iconic goalkeeper, reflecting on that match, revealed that the defeat also deeply affected his wife, Ilaria, though a shirt swap with Lionel Messi slightly softened the blow.
Quote: “It was 5:30 in the morning, and my wife Ilaria and I were crying, hugging each other. After Berlin, I went home. You’re dazed by the loss, like after a drunken night. I stayed in the living room, she got changed, and we didn’t say a word to each other. We just hugged, cried for five minutes, and then went to bed.
When Messi asked for my shirt, I told myself, ‘My God, how beautiful it is!’ It was one of those moments when I didn’t feel uncomfortable—I saw myself from a different perspective. But at the end of the match, we had other problems. We didn’t know that a few years later, we’d have another chance in the final [2017 against Real Madrid],” Buffon told Mundo Deportivo.
Reminder: Earlier, reports emerged that Juventus is planning to buy out Randal Kolo Muani’s contract from PSG.
