Tuesday, February 21, 2017

'We are the best': Buffon and Casillas to resume rivalry (The Associated Press)

FILE - This Oct. 23, 2013 file photo shows Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, left, sharing a laugh with then Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas at the end of a Group B Champions League soccer match between Real Madrid and Juventus at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain. It will be a meeting of goalkeeping greats when Gianluigi Buffon faces old rival Iker Casillas in the Champions League on Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017 as Juventus visits Porto. (AP Photo/Paul White, file)

It will be a meeting of goalkeeping greats when Gianluigi Buffon faces old rival Iker Casillas on Wednesday in the Champions League. The 39-year-old Buffon has won virtually everything except for the Champions League - finishing runner-up twice, in 2003 and 2015, with Juventus. The 35-year-old Casillas has won everything - including three Champions League titles - but is looking to regain his spot on Spain's national team and prove his former club, Real Madrid, wrong for casting him aside two years ago.


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