Wednesday’s Special: Meet Francesco Totti

In this second episode of Wednesday’s Special, The Writer will bring the readers into the life and story of a weekly selected footballer. Today, readers will have the chance to meet Francesco Totti, albeit in words only.

Totti was born in Rome. He is already 37 years old this year. But still going strong today and there is no sign of slowing down. He has even signed a new contract until the age of 39 years old. He started his football career as a youth team player at AS Roma and he has been there ever since. Totti is among a few one-man club in this world. He is the current captain of AS Roma and is already considered Roma's living legend and one of the most iconic people at the club and the city of Rome itself. 

 

Among his notable accolades are Italian Serie A title, Italian Super Cup, Italian Cup, and the FIFA World Cup 2006. In his youth, he was a quite temperamental player. He once spitted at Denmark's player, Christian Poulsen during EURO 2004 and was banned for three matches thus ending Italy's hope of progressing to the final stages without one of their best players. However he has improved now and becoming more discipline which enable  him to prolong his career until this golden ages. During his career, he was often deployed as a lone striker and advance playmaker or what football experts call as 'trequartista'. Totti has scored so many goals, won so many Golden Boot awards, and is currently the second highest goalscorer in Italian football with 235 goals to his name.

 

 

Totti often celebrates a goal by sucking his thumb, which is for the purpose of remembering the birth of his son and daughter. He is married to Ilary Blasi, an Italian TV celebrity since 2005.