🚨 Following the Italian Federation president, Buffon resigns too | OneFootball

Gianluigi Buffon, head of delegation for the Italian national team, has stepped down from his position and made it public just after the resignation of the president of the Italian Football Federation, Gabriele Gravina, on the afternoon of April 2, 2026.     

Buffon confirmed on his social media profiles that he resigned after the match against Bosnia, in “an impulsive act, which came from the deepest part of my being,” but that the FIGC asked him to delay his decision  for a few days.

“Now that president Gravina has decided to step aside, I feel free to do what I consider a responsible act, because, although I sincerely believe that we built a lot in terms of team spirit with Rino Gattuso and all his staff, in the little time available to the national team, the main objective was to take Italy back to the World Cup and we did not achieve it,” Buffon explains.

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