Guendalina Buffon (born 14 May 1973) is a retired Italian female volleyball player. She was part of the Italy women's national volleyball team.
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| Born | 14 May 1973 Carrara, Italy | ||||
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She participated in the 1994 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship.[1]
Personal life
editGuendalina was born into a family of Italian athletes: her mother Maria Stella Masocco was a discus thrower, and her father Adriano was a weightlifter.[2] Following their athletic retirement, they subsequently worked as P.E. school teachers.[3][4]
Guendalina's sister Veronica Buffon also played volleyball for the Italian national team;[5] their younger brother Gianluigi is a former professional football goalkeeper who played for the Italy national football team for two decades and won the 2006 FIFA World Cup.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Women Volleyball XIII World Championship 1994 - Teams Composition. - Italy". todor66.com. Archived from the original on 27 June 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ James Horncastle (4 June 2014). "Gianluigi Buffon: a goalkeeper must be a masochist and egocentric". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
- ^ "Gianluigi Buffon: Bio". gianluigibuffon.it. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
- ^ Gianluigi Buffon (13 November 2008). "Buffon: Ricco e famoso la depressione mi prese lo stesso" [Buffon: I'm rich and famous but depression got me anyway] (in Italian). La Stampa. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
- ^ Veronica Buffon, Volleybox
- ^ "Buffon, semplicemente il migliore" [Buffon, simply the best] (in Italian). Sky.it. Archived from the original on 30 October 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2012.
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