Francesco Totti is an Italian former professional footballer who played with Roma and the Italian national team. Included in the list of top 100 football players, according to FIFA. During his career, he performed in various attacking positions - playing the left winger, center forward and attacking midfielder.
He is often called the "Emperor of Rome", "Big Child", "Roman Gladiator", "Golden Boy". And all because Francesco Totti spent his entire career in one club. For 28 years he remained faithful to Roma, for which he received unlimited love from the fans of the club. In 2017, the player ended his career, after which he was soon appointed director of the Roma club.
Biography, career in “Series A”
Francesco Totti was born on September 27, 1976 in Rome, Italy. Since 1989, he began to play in the Roma youth team, and in 1991 he signed a professional contract with the club and began playing at the base.
For 25 seasons in the “yellow-red” Totti became the champion of “Series A”, two-time winner of the Italian Cup and two-time winner of the Italian Super Cup, as well as an important fact - nine-time vice champion of Italy. He is the second scorer in the history of the Italian championship after Silvio Piola (played 274 goals from 1929 to 1954), with 250 goals.
Francesco is the only player who has managed to score goals in Serie A for 23 consecutive seasons. The “Emperor of Rome” is the most important and legendary footballer in the history of “Roma”, here he is the record holder for both scored goals and matches held, he has 786 on his account. In addition, the football player Francesco Totti holds the record as the youngest captain of “Roma” "And" Series A ".
Game style, features and records
Totti was always famous for his intelligence during the game, his creative and technical abilities provided a comfortable game for the team in the process of attacks and even defense. Totti was and is the main scorer and dispatcher of Roma, and some will even say that the heart of Rome. This is truly one of the greatest players of all time, because Francesco won the record eleven Okar del Calcio awards - an annual award given to the best football player in Italy.
There were many other individual awards in Totti's career: winner of the Golden Boot 2007, Golden Foot 2010, Golden Tapir 2016, five-time winner of the Football Player of the Year of Italy award, top scorer 2007, Gaetano Shirea Prize 2014 and much more.
In November 2014, Francesco Totti expanded his record as the oldest scorer in the history of the UEFA Champions League, at the age of 38 years and 59 days.
Team Achievements
He played for the Italian national team from 1998 to 2006, previously played in all age categories of the national team.
As part of the “blue team”, he became the 2006 World Champion, the finalist of the 2000 European Championship, and also represented the Italian team at the 2002 World Championship and Euro 2004. In total, the Italian team held 58 official meetings and became the author of 9 goals.