{"id":11708,"date":"2025-03-10T17:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T17:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/louis-buffon-italy-legend-gianluigi-buffons-son-makes-professional-debut-at-17\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T17:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T17:31:09","slug":"louis-buffon-italy-legend-gianluigi-buffons-son-makes-professional-debut-at-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/louis-buffon-italy-legend-gianluigi-buffons-son-makes-professional-debut-at-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Buffon: Italy legend Gianluigi Buffon&#8217;s son makes professional debut at 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Louis Buffon, the son of Juventus and Italy legend Gianluigi Buffon, made his professional debut for Serie B side Pisa on Sunday. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unlike his World-Cup winning father, who made more than 1,000 professional appearances during a glittering career as a goalkeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/66378584\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">before retiring in 2023<\/a> &#8211; the 17-year-old is a left-sided attacking player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forward Louis was introduced as a late substitute by Pisa boss Filippo Inzaghi &#8211; who played alongside his dad for the Azzurri &#8211; as they fell to a 3-2 defeat at Spezia. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pisa, who are second in the table, are looking to return to the top flight for the first time since 1991.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Turin-born Louis recently elected to represent the Czech Republic, where his mother is from, at under-18 level.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cn4807x4y0yo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Buffon, the son of Juventus and Italy legend Gianluigi Buffon, made his professional debut for Serie B side Pisa on Sunday. Unlike his World-Cup winning father, who made more than 1,000 professional appearances during a glittering career as a goalkeeper before retiring in 2023 &#8211; the 17-year-old is a left-sided attacking player. Forward Louis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11710,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11708\/revisions\/11710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}