Francesco Totti

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Francesco Totti
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Francesco Totti (2018)
Personnel
birthday September 27, 1976
place of birth Rome ,  Italy
size 180 cm
position Midfield , storm
Juniors
Years station
1983-1984 Fortitudo Luditor
1984-1986 Smit Trastevere
1986-1989 AS Lodigiani
1989-1993 AS Roma
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1993-2017 AS Roma 619 (250)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1991-1992 Italy U16 13 00(2)
1992 Italy U15 6 00(3)
1993-1995 Italy U18 14 00(7)
1995-1997 Italy U21 8 00(4)
1997 Italy U23 4 00(2)
1998-2006 Italy 58 00(9)
1 Only league games are given.

Francesco Totti (born September 27, 1976 in Rome ) is a former Italian football player . He was used both in attacking midfield and in attack. During his entire professional career, Totti has only been active at AS Roma . He is the player with the most appearances (783) and goals (307) in the history of the club.

With his club, Totti won the championship (2001) and the national cup (2007, 2008) in the course of his career. As an Italian national player , he became world champion in Germany in 2006 . Totti was named Italy's Footballer of the Year twice by the Italian sports press (1998, 2004) and twice by the Italian Players' Association (2000, 2003) . In 2007 he became the top scorer in Serie A and winner of the Golden Boot as Europe's top scorer.

Career

In the club

Totti in the AS Roma jersey (2013)

Totti made his Serie A debut on March 28, 1993 under coach Vujadin Boškov at the age of 16. In the 1994/95 season he established himself in the club as a regular and scored four goals in 21 games. In the following seasons he caused a sensation with strong performances at the Giallorossi . In the 2000/01 season , Totti, as captain and playmaker, finally led his team with 13 goals to the first championship title in Serie A since 1983.

In the following years AS Roma established themselves as a top team thanks to Totti's goals. The team did not win another championship title, but has been runner-up nine times since then ( 2001/02 , 2003/04 , 2005/06 , 2006/07 , 2007/08 , 2009/10 , 2013/14 , 2014/15 , 2016 / 17 ). In the 2006/07 season he was the top scorer with 26 goals, with 6 goals ahead of the runner-up. Thanks to his personal goal record, Totti also won the European Golden Shoe one goal ahead of Real Madrid's Ruud van Nistelrooy .

Totti and AS Roma were also successful in the Coppa Italia : In 2003, the team reached the cup final for the first time since 1993. From 2005 to 2008 this was achieved four times in a row. In 2007 AS Rom won the Coppa for the first time since 1991. She defended the title in 2008. In 2010, Rome failed in the final at Inter Milan, Totti himself was sent off after a red card : he brutally kicked Inter striker Mario Balotelli from behind in the 88th minute. Totti then stated that he had been provoked several times by Balotelli, while the dark-skinned Balotelli stated that Totti had insulted him racially.

On March 17, 2013, he took over with his 226th goal, the second position in the all-time goalscorer list of the Serie A and outstripped Gunnar Nordahl .

On May 3, 2017, AS Roma announced that Francesco Totti would end his active career at the end of the 2016/17 season . He played his last game for AS Roma on May 28, 2017 at the home game against CFC Genoa . Two days later, on May 30, 2017, Totti announced that he wanted to continue his playing career at another club. On July 17, 2017, however, Totti announced the final end of his professional career.

National team

Totti has played in all of the Italian national youth teams from U-15 to U-21. In July 1995 he was runner-up in the U-18 team and scored the consolation goal for Italy in the 4-1 defeat against Spain . In the following year he won the U-21 European title , in the final it was again against the Iberians. Totti scored the interim goal, after which Italy won 5-4 on penalties.

The Roman made his debut in the senior national team on October 10, 1998 under Dino Zoff in a 2-0 victory in the European Championship qualification against Switzerland in Udine . He scored his first goal in the Squadra Azzurra jersey on April 26, 2000 in a friendly against Portugal (2-0). In the same year he made his international breakthrough at the European Championships in Belgium and the Netherlands in 2000 . He scored one goal in the group game against Belgium (2-0), and another in a 2-0 quarter-final win against Romania . With his trademark, the cucchiaio (actually spoon ; Lupfer), he paved Italy's way into the final in a penalty shootout against the Netherlands , where he was voted player of the game despite the 2-1 defeat against France .

Totti next to Alessandro Del Piero during the EM 2000

His first soccer World Cup in 2002 in Japan and South Korea was unfortunate. In the lost round of 16 against South Korea , Totti was sent off because of a questionable swallow by the Ecuadorian referee Byron Moreno with yellow and red.

At the 2004 European Championships he was noticeable in the preliminary round match against Denmark because he spat at Christian Poulsen three times after he had repeatedly provoked him. He only saw the rest of the tournament in the stands, as he was suspended for three games and Italy did not reach the semi-finals.

On 19 February 2006, he broke the league match against FC Empoli the fibula and several torn ligaments put in hock to. After the successful operation and the use of a metal plate fixed with twelve screws in the leg, his participation in the World Cup in Germany seemed to be in jeopardy for some time, but just under a month before the start of the tournament he was able to celebrate his comeback in the Italian cup final between Rome and Inter Milan . National coach Marcello Lippi had previously stated that he would also take an injured or ailing Totti with him to Germany. Lippi called him on May 15, 2006 in the World Cup squad.

In the round of 16 of the 2006 World Cup against Australia on June 26, 2006, Francesco Totti converted the decisive penalty in stoppage time of the second half after being substituted in in the only game in which he did not start from the start. Although he could never quite come close to his old class at this tournament due to his training deficit, he was still on the pitch in all seven Italian games and with his penalty goal and three assists he played an important role on the way to the World Cup.

After the World Cup in Germany, Francesco Totti initially announced his temporary resignation from the national team, on July 20, 2007 he announced his final resignation.

Cult status in Rome

Totti graffito in the old town of Rome

Francesco Totti's cult status is also due to the fact that he is a “Romano di Roma”, i.e. a native Roman and not a newcomer. He has been with AS Roma since his youth . He was firmly rooted in the AS through his family. When representatives of Roma's arch rivals Lazio Rome wanted to recruit 13-year-old Francesco, they were chased out of the house. As a teenager, Totti attended the games of his favorite club at the Stadio Olimpico .

From the 1997/98 season until the end of his career in the 2016/17 season he was team captain of the "Roma" and increasingly became a figure of identification for the "Romanisti", who often just call him "Il Capitano", the captain.

statistics

titles and achievements

Francesco Totti winning the Coppa Italia 2008

National team

AS Roma

Personal awards

Calls

season championship Cup European Cup Supercup total
Games Gates Games Gates Games Gates Games Gates Games Gates
1992/93 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
1993/94 8th 0 2 0 10 0
1994/95 20th 4th 4th 4th 24 7th
1995/96 28 2 1 0 7th 2 36 4th
1996/97 26th 5 1 0 3 0 30th 5
1997/98 30th 13 6th 1 36 14th
1998/99 31 12 3 1 8th 3 42 16
1999/00 27 7th 2 0 5 1 34 8th
2000/01 30th 13 2 1 3 2 35 16
2001/02 24 8th 0 0 11 3 1 1 36 12
2002/03 24 14th 5 3 6th 3 35 20th
2003/04 31 20th 0 0 1 0 32 20th
2004/05 29 12 7th 3 4th 0 40 15th
2005/06 24 15th 2 0 3 2 29 17th
2006/07 35 26th 5 2 9 4th 1 0 50 32
2007/08 25th 14th 3 3 6th 1 1 0 35 18th
2008/09 23 13 0 0 7th 2 1 0 31 15th
2009/10 23 14th 2 0 6th 11 31 25th
2010/11 32 15th 0 0 7th 2 1 0 40 17th
2011/12 27 8th 2 0 2 0 31 8th
2012/13 34 12 3 0 37 12
2013/14 26th 8th 3 0 29 8th
2014/15 27 8th 2 0 7th 2 36 10
2015/16 13 5 0 0 2 0 15th 5
2016/17 18th 2 3 1 6th 0 20th 3
total 619 250 58 18th 103 38 5 1 778 307

Records

  • With his 452nd official game for AS Roma , Totti became the club record holder on February 11, 2007 against FC Parma, ahead of Giacomo Losi . He has now played 712 competitive games.
  • Totti has also held the club record for Serie A appearances since February 27, 2008: he played against Inter Milan for the 387th time in a championship game for Rome, also surpassing Losi. Since then, the number of Tottis league appearances has grown to 597.
  • 21 January 2012 Totti set a new record for the most goals for a club goals in the Serie A on. With two hits and a total of 211 goals, he exceeded the previous record set by Gunnar Nordahl by one goal.
  • On March 17, 2013, Totti scored his 226th goal in Serie A and has since been in second place in the all-time scorers list of Serie A behind Silvio Piola (274 goals).
  • On September 30, 2014, Totti became the oldest goalscorer in the UEFA Champions League with a goal in the group game against Manchester City . At 38 years and 3 days he replaced Ryan Giggs as the record holder.

As of April 21, 2016

Others

Francesco Totti married the entertainer Ilary Blasi on June 19, 2005 . They have a son and two daughters together.

At the end of 2006, Totti and his wife dubbed two characters in an episode of the American animated series The Simpsons .

Francesco Totti has been a voluntary UNICEF ambassador since 2003 , the proceeds of his two self-deprecating books "Tutte le barzellette su Totti" ("All jokes about Totti") and the book "Mo je faccio er cucchiaio - Il mio calcio" ("Now I do Give him a lift - Mein Fußball ”), in which he describes football from his point of view and which has autobiographical traits, went to social projects of the city of Rome and UNICEF.

Web links

Commons : Francesco Totti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Totti under attack after the attack on Inter-Star Balotelli ( memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Kleine Zeitung May 7, 2010.
  2. ^ Totti 20 Years Series A , March 28, 2013, accessed April 6, 2013.
  3. ↑ Monchi confirms: Roma legend Francesco Totti stops in summer. kicker.de, May 3, 2017, accessed on May 3, 2017 .
  4. ↑ The farewell of the gladiator: Francesco Totti's last game at AS Roma
  5. ↑ [1]
  6. ^ "Trainee" Totti: Roma jacket instead of Roma jersey. kicker.de, July 17, 2017, accessed on July 18, 2017 .
  7. ^ Totti declares resignation from Italy's national team , July 20, 2007, accessed on November 19, 2012.
  8. ↑ UEFA.com: Francesco Totti to receive UEFA President's Award. Retrieved January 22, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Bendoni Consulting: Francesco Totti (Career Award) - Globe Soccer. Retrieved January 22, 2018 (American English).
  10. ↑ Italy: Record hunter Totti leads Roma to victory , January 22, 2012, accessed on November 19, 2012.
  11. ^ Totti oldest goalscorer in the CL , September 30, 2014, accessed on October 1, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Totti, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Italy