Legendary Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon retires aged 45

Former Italy goalkeeper and World Cup winner Gianluigi Buffon has retired from football aged 45. Buffon brings an end to a 28-year career that saw him lift the World Cup in 2006 along with 10 Serie A titles with Juventus and Ligue 1 with Paris St-Germain. He ends his career where it began in 1995, at Parma, now a Serie B club.

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Club on the rise – AC Monza

AC Monza is attracting growing attention as some familiar faces of Italian football aim to take the club from the wilderness to the Serie A for the first time. Monza is a club on the rise and Marking The Spot has examined the men behind the ambitious project.

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