Francesco Totti is turning 50 and to celebrate, here’s a fact or stat about him for each number up to his current age.
It’s been almost a decade since Totti retired as Roma’s record goalscorer and appearance maker, with his efforts still unmatched and likely to be for a very long time.
Numbers alone don’t do justice to how special a player Totti was, but they can give some weight to what he achieved in his career.
Here’s something about Totti for every digit from 1 to 50.
1 – Club he played for: Roma
2 – Times he won the Coppa Italia with Roma
3 – Goals he scored in his final season
4 – Hat tricks he scored for Roma
5 – Trophies he won with Roma
6 – Games he started in his final season
7 – Seasons he was Roma’s top scorer in
8 – Caps he earned at under-21 level with Italy
9 – Goals he scored for Italy
10 – Shirt number he wore from 1997 to 2017
11 – Goals he scored in derbies; a joint-record
12 – Times Roma finished in the top four in Serie A in his career
13 – Seasons he scored double figures of Serie A goals in
14 – Roma coaches he scored at least one goal for
15 – Roma teammates he shared more than 10,000 minutes of gametime with
16 – Age when he made his debut
17 – Age when he scored his first Serie A goal
18 – Goals he scored in the Coppa Italia
19 – Percentage of Roma’s goals he scored when they won the 2000-01 Serie A
20 – Goals he scored against Parma, the most of any opponent
21 – Goals he scored in the UEFA Cup/Europa League for Roma
22 – Age when he became Roma’s captain
23 – Seasons in which he scored a Serie A goal
24 – Age when he won the league with Roma
25 – Seasons in which he made at least one appearance for Roma
26 – Goals he scored to be Serie A’s top scorer in 2006-07
27 – Date in February 2008 when he became Roma’s record appearance maker
28 – Appearances he made in his final season
29 – Free kicks he scored for Roma
30 – Minute of the game when he scored his first Roma goal in 1994
31 – Age when he won his last trophy: the 2007-08 Coppa Italia
32 – His highest goal tally in a season over all competitions (2006-07)
33 – Age when he scored his last Serie A hat trick
34 – Times he played alongside his idol Giuseppe Giannini in Serie A
35 – Stadiums other than the Olimpico he scored at for Roma
36 – Minutes he played on his final appearance for Roma
37 – Age at which he reached 700 appearances for Roma
38 – Goals he scored in European competition for Roma
39 – Age when he scored his last brace for Roma, against Torino
40 – Age when he retired
41 – Goals he scored with his left foot
42 – Age at which he left Roma after resigning from his post-playing boardroom role
43 – Minute of the game when he scored his last Champions League goal, against CSKA Moscow
44 – Derbies he played in against Lazio
45 – Percentage of his appearances for Roma in which he shared a pitch with Daniele De Rossi
46 – Appearances he made in the UEFA Cup/Europa League
47 – Teams he played against in Serie A
48 – Serie A games in which he scored more than one goal
49 – Years AS Roma had existed when he was born
50 – Most appearances he made in all competitions in a season (2006-07)
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