Wednesday, May 19, 2021
A farewell title
Buffon wins the trophy with Juve
The championship is a thing of the past and Juventus Turin still has to worry about participating in the Champions League. But the club around coach Andrea Pirlo has one success in its books at the end of the season: The record champions secure the trophy.
Goalkeeper legend Gianluigi Buffon says goodbye to the Italian record champions Juventus Turin with a title. The 43-year-old won the Italian Football Cup with Juve on Wednesday with a 2: 1 (1: 1) against Atalanta Bergamo. For Buffon, who has played for the Turin club since 2001 with a one-year break, it was the fifth cup triumph in addition to a total of ten Italian championships. The 2006 world champion will leave the traditional club this summer. It is unclear whether he will continue his career.
In front of around 4,000 spectators in Reggio Emilia, Dejan Kulusevski (31st) and Federico Chiesa (73rd) scored the 14th Turin Cup triumph. For Bergamo, which has to wait for its second cup success after 1963, Ruslan Malinovskyi equalized (41st). At Atalanta, the German international Robin Gosens was in the starting line-up, whom national coach Joachim Löw has just appointed to the EM_Kader.
For Juventus, the cup win is a small consolation prize, after Inter Milan this time won the title in Serie A after nine championships in a row. Juve even have to worry about getting into the Champions League. Accordingly, the future of coach Andrea Pirlo is also uncertain.
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