It has been 22 years since his debut in 1996, and in the fifth round of the just-concluded 2018 World Cup European qualifiers in Russia, he represented Italy in a 2-0 home victory over Albania, winning three consecutive group stage victories and completing the feat of 1,000 career milestones. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The 39-year-old "youngster" Buffon has made 612 appearances for Juventus, Parma 220 and 167 for the Italian national team.

According to the data agency, Gianluigi Buffon's appearance against Albania not only reached the milestone of 1,000 games, but his 168 international appearances will also set a new record.

Do you think Buffon has the most appearances per 1,000 games?

No, Buffon's 1,000 games are only 17th in the appearances rankings, tied with retired Scottish midfielder Tommy Hutchison.

In front of Buffon, most of them are retired stars, and interestingly, the top three are all goalkeepers, two of whom are English.

England legend Peter Hilton, yes, is the Three Lions who made the save of the century in the 1970 World Cup, saving the header of Pele.

His 1,377 appearances are a full 150 more than the 1,227 of second-placed Brazilian "penalty goalkeeper" Roglio Cheney.

If Buffon is to surpass Hilton's appearances, the 39-year-old must be guaranteed to play at least 55 games a year, and he will be the number one player on this list in about six years.

However, by then, he will be 45 years old, and it is difficult to say whether he will be able to play until that time.

However, Buffon can beat the appearance record of his former team-mate Paolo Maldini, the legendary Italian defender who is 11th with 1,028 games, and it is believed that Buffon will surpass Maldini as the most played Italian player in history within this year.

Looking at the list again, in addition to the Spanish legend Raul Gonzalez, who is a striker, the top ten is half of the goalkeepers and three of the defenders, which shows that the goalkeeper and the defender are two positions with a long life.

It is worth mentioning that the Spanish midfielder, former Barcelona captain Xavi Hernandez, is in 15th place with 1,015 games, the only active player other than Buffon.

Xavi is said to be retiring in 2018 and has the potential to surpass Raul as the most capped Spaniard player in history if he has more appearances this year.

Closing the tablet, Zhang Zhetian sighed and looked up at the starry sky at a 45-degree angle.

In the goalkeeper position, there are only two idols who can become the leader of the sky, one is the former Soviet Union, the last best goalkeeper in the world, and the only one who won the Ballon d'Or as a goalkeeper.

The other is the Italian goalkeeper who has maintained a terrible stable performance for 22 years and waited for several generations to be old, "Youngster" Buffon.

Two idols, one has retired and is no longer alive, and the goal of Zhang Zhetian is not only to become the second goalkeeper to win the Ballon d'Or after his idol Yashin, but also to surpass him and become the first goalkeeper to win the World Footballer of the Year.

Last year, the Ballon d'Or and the World Footballer of the Year were separated, and it will be the goal of many talents.

A 39-year-old who continues to struggle on the green field, constantly breaking various records, and the goal of Zhang Zhetian is also to catch up with Buffon, whether in terms of age, or the number of appearances, or various other goalkeeper records.

He sighed, because he hated that he couldn't go out early, he only debuted at the age of 18 and a half compared to the talented goalkeepers of the same age, his debut time was too late, if he played official games at the age of 16 like Gian Luigi Donnarumma, he would be able to reach the milestone of 100 games early by the time he became an adult.

At present, Zhang Zhetian has made a total of 35 appearances, including 27 appearances for the University of Coimbra, 7 appearances for Arsenal and 1 appearance for the Chinese team.

This season, Arsenal still have 11 games left in the Premier League, two FA Cup finals, five Champions League finals, two quarter-finals, plus Iran in a few days' time, and 51-54 games by the end of the season, which is a huge success for a 19-year-old who has only played a professional game for less than a year.

You must know that Italy's future goalkeeper, Buffon's successor Donnarumma, only played 39 games in all competitions in his first season of debut.

However, to complete the 100-game milestone, Donnarumma may have to wait until next season, after all, AC Milan has not played in Europe for two seasons, and the main matches are domestic, even if Donnarumma does not lose a game this season, it will not exceed 42 games, plus 39 games last season, it is only 81 games.

If AC Milan do not have European games next season, Arsenal will play in the Premier League, English League Cup, FA Cup and Champions League, which will help Zhang Zhetian catch up with his younger but earlier Italian opponents in terms of appearances.

Donnarumma is my opponent?

Zhang Zhetian shook his head, it's not that he thinks very highly of himself, as a person with lofty ideals who aims for the Golden Ball Award and the World Footballer of the Year, and has won more IFFHS World Goalkeeper of the Year than his predecessors, in the goalkeeper line, he has no opponent!

I'm going to reach the 1,000-game milestone faster than Buffon and the other seniors!

So, as long as I can't get out of bed if I'm not sick and can't walk if I'm injured, I have to play!

Zhang Zhetian's eyes flashed with determination as he looked at the dark night sky.

Thinking of the FA Cup that he missed, Zhang Zhetian regretted it in his heart.

One less appearance!!

"This is the home stadium of the Iranian team, and the Azadi Stadium can accommodate 100,000 people, and this devil's home stadium is not only us, but also Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Australia and other Asian teams cannot win here." Li Tie said loudly: "They will definitely win us, lock the first place in the group in advance and directly qualify for the World Cup finals, so in this game, Iran will definitely attack, in the case of the overall strength is not as good as others, we must focus on defense, supplemented by counterattack." Players who choose speed in the front court can make full use of Zhang Zhetian's long passing skills to create scoring opportunities. ”

Massimiliano Maddaloni is also the main defender, not only supporting Li Tie's views, but also his suggestion is more ruthless: five defenders, four midfielders, and leave a fast horse striker to steal chickens in the frontcourt.

Damn, this old man is really ruthless, 9 defensive players, this is clearly to put an iron bucket formation, but do you think the Chinese team has learned a few points of Italian defense and can block the Persian iron hooves?

Can the Chinese team make a threatening counterattack when the Italian team switches from defense to attack?

On the opposite side is Narciso Pezzotti, who believes that the Iranian side will definitely assume that the Chinese team will focus on defense, so they will be caught off guard with attack.

Don't look at Pezzotti is Italian, but he is not conservative, he believes that the best defense is to resolve the opponent's attack in the midfield, so he advocates fighting for the midfield and never retreating, because the Chinese team's defensive system is not perfect, and it can't stop the Iranian team's onslaught at all.

Marcelo Lippi watched quietly as they argued, attacking or defending, that was the question.