 He was the silver medallist in the marathon at the 1998 European Athletics Championships.He won two times the Italian national championships of the marathon, the first time in 1995 when he was 23 years old, and the second time, 19 years after in 2014 when he was 42.Goffi won the 1995 Venice Marathon and was part of the Italian bronze medal-winning team at the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships that year.