Francesco Totti is an Italian former professional footballer who played solely for Roma and the Italy national team.
59 Facts About Francesco Totti
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Francesco Totti is often referred to as Er Bimbo de Oro, L'Ottavo Re di Roma, Er Pupone, and Il Capitano by the Italian sports media.
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Francesco Totti spent his entire career at Roma, winning a Serie A title, two Coppa Italia titles, and two Supercoppa Italiana titles.
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Francesco Totti is the second-highest scorer of all time in Italian league history with 250 goals, and is the sixth-highest scoring Italian in all competitions with 316 goals.
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Totti is the top goalscorer and the most capped player in Roma's history, holds the record for the most goals scored in Serie A while playing for a single club, and holds the record for the youngest club captain in the history of Serie A In November 2014, Totti extended his record as the oldest goalscorer in UEFA Champions League history, aged 38 years and 59 days.
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In 2007, Francesco Totti announced his international retirement due to recurring physical problems and in order to focus solely on club play with Roma.
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Francesco Totti won a record eleven Oscar del Calcio awards from the Italian Footballers' Association: five Serie A Italian Footballer of the Year awards, two Serie A Footballer of the Year awards, two Serie A Goal of the Year awards, one Serie A Goalscorer of the Year award, and one Serie A Young Footballer of the Year award.
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Francesco Totti won the 2007 European Golden Shoe and the 2010 Golden Foot.
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Francesco Totti was selected in the European Sports Media team of the season three times.
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In 2011, Francesco Totti was recognised by IFFHS as the most popular footballer in Europe.
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Francesco Totti was born in Rome to parents Lorenzo and Fiorella Francesco Totti.
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Francesco Totti began to play youth team football in 1984, with Fortitudo, later joining Trastevere and Lodigiani.
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Francesco Totti displayed a greater responsibility for the team, and was presented with the number 10 jersey.
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Francesco Totti continued to play an important role in keeping the club at the top of the table throughout the remainder of the season, gaining a comfortable lead over rivals Juventus.
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Francesco Totti finished the league season with 13 goals, equalling what was at the time his personal goalscoring record in a single Serie A season.
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Francesco Totti was named the Serie A Italian Footballer of the Year for both 2000 and 2001, and won the Serie A Footballer of the Year Award for the first time in his career in 2000.
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Francesco Totti received his first Ballon d'Or nomination in 2000, finishing 14th in voting, and fifth the following year.
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In 2003, Francesco Totti won his second Serie A Footballer of the Year Award.
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Francesco Totti was given off-label treatments of teriparatide to speed-up his fracture recovery.
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In Serie A, he scored three goals against Bari on 22 November 2009, seven years on from his last hat-trick in Serie A Eight days later, Totti confirmed he had signed a new five-year playing contract which would see him at the club until 2014, after which he stated he would become a club director for a further five years.
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On 20 September 2013, Roma announced that Francesco Totti had signed a new contract, keeping him at the club until 2016, past his 39th birthday.
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Eight days later, Francesco Totti celebrated 700 overall appearances with Roma against Torino.
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On 30 September 2014, three days after his 38th birthday, Francesco Totti scored Roma's equaliser in a Champions League group stage draw at Manchester City, thus becoming the oldest scorer in the UEFA Champions League history; it was Francesco Totti's 300th professional career goal.
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On 11 January 2015, Francesco Totti scored two goals against local rivals Lazio, making him the joint all-time top scorer in the Rome Derby in official club competitions, alongside Dino Da Costa, with 11 goals, as well as the Serie A top scorer in the Rome Derby.
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Francesco Totti finished the season as Roma's leading scorer with ten goals in all competitions, the seventh time in which he had been the team's top scorer.
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Francesco Totti's double made him the oldest player in Serie A history to score two goals in a single league match, at the age of 39 years, 6 months and 23 days, breaking Silvio Piola's previous record of 39 years, 4 months and 2 days, which he had managed with Novara on 1 February 1953, after scoring a brace against his former team Lazio.
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Francesco Totti came off the bench in each of the past five Serie A games and contributed four goals and an assist.
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Francesco Totti first came into international prominence while playing in FIFA and UEFA youth tournaments.
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Four months later, Francesco Totti played in 1993 FIFA U-17 World Championship in Japan and scored Italy's goal in the tournament as the Azzurrini were eliminated in group stage.
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In total, Francesco Totti made 58 appearances for Italy between 1998 and 2006, scoring nine goals and making 24 assists.
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Later, during the second half of the match, Francesco Totti provided two scoring opportunities for Alessandro Del Piero, which the Juventus forward was unable to convert.
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Francesco Totti was selected for the 22-man Team of the Tournament due to his performances throughout the European Championship.
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Francesco Totti was banned until the semi-finals, but never made it back to action and finished the competition scoreless due to Italy's elimination in the first round on direct encounters, following a three-way five point tie with Sweden and Denmark.
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Italy manager Marcello Lippi showed enormous faith in Francesco Totti, assuring him during his rehabilitation that his spot in Italy's World Cup squad was secure and to focus on recuperating.
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Francesco Totti did recuperate in time and was eventually named to Lippi's final 23-man squad for the 2006 World Cup.
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Francesco Totti played the entire time in Germany with metal plates and screws in his ankle that had yet to be removed following the surgery.
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Francesco Totti finished the tournament with the joint-highest number of assists, along with Juan Roman Riquelme.
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Francesco Totti intended to retire from international football after the 2006 World Cup, but reneged on his decision and remained undecided on his future for over a year, not being called up in the meantime.
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In May 2016, several injuries in the Italian squad, as well as a lack of attacking options and Francesco Totti's run of good form as a substitute for Roma, led some in the media to call for manager Antonio Conte to include Francesco Totti as a reserve in Italy's Euro 2016 squad; however, he was later left out of Conte's 30-man preliminary Italy squad for the final tournament.
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Francesco Totti is regarded by some as Italy's greatest player ever.
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An elegant, world-class, and technically gifted attacking midfielder with a good knowledge of the game, Francesco Totti was a tactically versatile player, capable of playing anywhere along the front line, and was occasionally deployed as a winger or as a central midfielder under Zdenek Zeman, and most notably as a false 9 under Luciano Spalletti and Rudi Garcia.
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Francesco Totti scored several goals from chipped shots throughout his career, and often used the technique on penalties, which was known as the cucchiaio technique ; one of the most famous instances in which Francesco Totti performed this type of penalty was in the victorious shootout of Italy's Euro 2000 semi-final match against the Netherlands.
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Francesco Totti was known for his exuberant and humorous goal celebrations.
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Francesco Totti's current ritual of sucking his thumb after a goal began after his son was born and continued after the birth of his daughter.
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Blasi has revealed that Francesco Totti sucks his thumb in dedication to her and not just for their children.
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On 17 July 2017, Francesco Totti confirmed his retirement from professional football and announced that he had accepted an offer from his former team Roma to become a club director.
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Francesco Totti married Ilary Blasi, a former showgirl and a co-host of Italia 1's Le Iene, on 19 June 2005 at the Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli.
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Francesco Totti owns a motorcycle racing team called Francesco Totti Top Sport.
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In 2009, Francesco Totti helped launch a new campaign promoting Football Adopting Abandoned Children, which came about in collaboration with the Friends of Children and the Association of Italian Players.
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On 27 September 2016, Francesco Totti celebrated his 40th birthday live on his new Facebook page, at the Tor Crescenza castle in Rome.
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Francesco Totti recorded a video message for a comatose hospital patient who awoke from her coma when his voice was played; Francesco Totti visited the patient in the hospital in September 2020.
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In 2002, Fiat principal executive Gianni Agnelli, a lifelong fan and ex-president of Juventus, chose Francesco Totti to publicize the launch of the new Stilo instead of a Juventus player.
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Francesco Totti appeared alongside Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Luis Figo, Roberto Carlos and Hidetoshi Nakata, with former player Eric Cantona the tournament "referee".
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Francesco Totti has featured in EA Sports' FIFA video game series; he starred on the cover of the Italian edition of FIFA 2002.
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Francesco Totti featured on the cover of Pro Evolution Soccer 4 along with Thierry Henry and Italian referee Pierluigi Collina.
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In 2009, Francesco Totti sent a message of support to Iranian youths during the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests.
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In February 2010, Francesco Totti was named an ambassador for online poker company Party Poker.
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In May 2010, Francesco Totti appeared alongside actor Russell Crowe in Rome to promote the special edition of the film Gladiator, celebrating the tenth year of the film's release.
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In December 2014, two murals of Francesco Totti, sponsored by Nike, were created in Rome.