From the series: we are infinite, there is time for flip-flops. Sports Highlander. Race aside, special people. Champions who push the end of their careers further and further. They don’t look back, even though they know they will find bulletin boards full of trophies. They look to the future, for them today is already tomorrow. Want to quit? Zero. Take Gigi Buffon. He could stay at home, in slippers, lying on the sofa playing with his children. Not at all.
“I set a limit: 2023, June”, revealed in an interview with Guardian. The registry of the Gigi Nazionale speaks of 43 years, more than half spent in the frame of a football goal. In his twenty-six-year career Buffon has won everything, league titles, various cups, especially a World Cup: but that is still not enough. For the Juventus goalkeeper, the secret of success – and of resisting so long at the highest levels – lies in one sentence. «I remember how I was and I know how I am now: it is important that sometimes things go wrong. Like when I make a mistake in a game and I break down: I always expect the best from myself ».
Ambition is the driving force. The same as another eternal champion, Valentino Rossi. The 42-year-old from Pesaro, in season 26 in the world championship, in Petronas with a Yamaha M1 bike, does not set limits on himself: «I’m in shape, I feel at the top. The World Cup, however, depends on too many factors ». He’s right: Valentino – the only rider in the history of the world championship to have won in four different classes – hasn’t won the MotoGP World Championship since 2009.
Twelve years ago. One life, for others. A piece of life for him. Who has been riding a motorcycle since he was a child. And that he does not intend to give up. “I will decide whether to continue in 2022 during the summer. Now I think about this World Championship and I say that it will be great to challenge my brother Luca Marini ».
Always find new stimuli, to always feel ready for new challenges. Like Zlatan Ibrahimovic – busy in these days in Sanremo. The Milan striker is 39 years old. And for him the last season is never the last. Leave football? We don’t talk about it. Even if the temptations are many. First of all, the world of entertainment. On the stage of the Ariston Ibra is doing very well. “It could be my new job.” He threw it there, then we’ll see.
Buffon, Rossi, Ibrahimovic. And like them Tom Brady, that a few weeks ago, at 43, he took the seventh pompous in the NFL; is Roger Federer, King Roger who at 39 does not want to get off the poster. No limits champions, quitting is not a verb that belongs to their vocabulary.
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