(AGI) Rome, Nov 19 - Juventus celebrated goalkeeper GigiBuffon's two decade-long career on Thursday. The Italian keepermade his debut in the Serie A twenty years earlier with Parma,and soon rocketed his way into the annals of football history,winning everything but the Champions League and EuropeanChampionship. Juventus recounted his career on its website:"Twenty years ago on November 19 in Parma's Tardini stadium, ayoung but promising 17-year-old made his first Serie Aappearance protecting the yellow and blue team's net. Thatkeeper's name was Gianluigi Buffon. People started to talkabout him after that very day on which he didn't let a singleball through (against an adversary like Milan, no less) and wasone of the best players on the pitch." The club continue: "Overthe years, the facts about him speak for themselves; theadjective 'promising' soon became reductive. Perhaps it wouldbe more appropriate to say he was predestined to be great. Inthese 20 years, Gigi Buffon has shaped football history,winning a World Cup and achieving legendary feats. Of course,he shaped history for Juventus as well, which he joined in2001. If words don't suffice, then here the numbers in hiscareer with the club: 8 Serie A league victories, 5 nationalSupercups, and one Italian Cup. His saves, over these last 240months, were often memorable, and calling them decisive would,once again, be reductive. Do you recall his jaw-dropping saveduring the derby a few weeks ago, for example? And so hislegend continues to grow, defying time. For all these reasons,dear Gigi, and for all the times to come when you will fly andstop a ball just under the top corner of the goal with the sameenthusiasm you showed in that Parma-Milan match 20 years ago,today not only Juventus fans, but all football fans pay youtribute with a long, long standing ovation.". .