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Know Gianluigi Buffon,the Italian goalie who will be playing his fifth World Cup

MANGARATIBA, Brazil: In every edition of the world cup, new records are being made while the old ones are broken. The 2014 world cup will be the fifth one for the Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon.






He helped Parma to the UEFA Cup title way back in 1999 and has since won five Serie A titles with Juventus -- including the last three. "There are players here who are at their first big tournament and he's always there offering the right words of advice," Marchisio added Tuesday.Born to members of Italy's national teams in athletics (his mother) and weightlifting (father), Buffon's distant relative Lorenzo Buffon was also Italy's goalkeeper in the 1950s.