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Buffon meeting investigators today

Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, preparing for next month's World Cup finals, will speak to investigators today as part of a probe into soccer gambling.   

Buffon will leave Italy's training camp in Florence to travel to Parma where prosecutors have opened their investigation. The Juventus goalkeeper has denied any wrongdoing.   

After volunteering to give a statement to Turin magistrates earlier this month, Buffon said that any bets he made were on foreign games at a time when such bets did not break Italy's strict regulations on gambling.   

Buffon is not under investigation and will meet prosecutors as a 'person who may be informed of the facts'.   

Last week the Italian Football Federation said they saw no reason why Buffon should not be included in Marcello Lippi's 23-man squad for the World Cup which starts on 9 June.

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