• Tearful Buffon given guard of honour during win over Verona • Parma return to Italian top flight three years after bankruptcyGianluigi Buffon made his emotional farewell to Juventus on Saturday, marking his 640th and last Serie A appearance for the club with another victory. Juventus had already wrapped up a seventh successive title, so this game was an opportunity to pay tribute to their departing captain. A reformed club, Parma Calcio 2013, easily secured promotion from Italy’s fourth tier in 2015-16 and won the Serie C promotion play-off the following year to reach Serie B this season. “I said I’d take Parma back to Serie A. I kept my promise,” the club captain Alessandro Lucarelli told Sky Sport Italia. It can’t be real, it’s impossible.”Frosinone were leading Foggia 2-1 with a minute remaining but conceded a last-gasp equaliser to hand Parma automatic promotion.

Source: The Guardian May 19, 2018 11:14 UTC