Gigi Buffon unveiled Azzurri's new home shirt

To project towards future through history. This was Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio’s idea that tonight - in the World Cup qualifier match against Macedonia - will present Azzurri’s new home jersey for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Forget to see Insigne, Immobile, and Bonucci with the new shirt tonight though, because the football federation and PUMA chose that only one player will have this honor: Gianluigi Buffon.

The “Number one of number ones”, in fact, if Italy will secure the qualification to Russia 2018, will become the only player in history to play in six different World Cups, entering in the Olympus of football with the best footballers to ever play the game. And to celebrate this extraordinary heritage of our country, PUMA and FIGC commissioned some wall paintings to the street artists collective Kamp Seedorf that - as we told you a few months back - is considered “the Banksy of football”.

The artists of Kamp Seedorf realized a series of wall paintings. One in Turin, where a couple of nights ago the new crest of the Azzurri has been presented, and one in every city where Buffon has played - or will possibly play - a World Cup game: Paris, Tokyo, Berlin, Johannesburg, Rio, and Moscow. But if October 9 - the day of the game against Albania and the 20th anniversary of Gigi’s debut with the national team - the shirt will be worn by everyone, tonight only one player will wear the Azzurro, our Number One.

For sure, we will have to chance to discuss all the technical details of this new Azzurri shirt in the future - and we thing it’s gorgeous - but for now we have to enjoy this romantic debut, that will be the umpteenth paper of history wrote by one of the most fascinating and winning nationals teams of the world. And by his captain, the one that could become the only player to ever play six different World Cups. Not bad at all.