Bruno Conti has recently been celebrated for a 50-year association with Roma, stretching back to when he made his first-team debut in 1973.
Since then, Conti has become one of the club’s top-10 most-used players of all time, worked extensively in the academy setup and even spent time on the touchline coaching the first team.
Here, Giallorossi Yorkshire goes through the numbers 1-50, giving one fact about Conti’s association with Roma for each digit.
1 – Involved in the first Roma Hall of Fame induction in 2012
2 – Goals scored in his first full season with Roma
3 – International goals he scored for Roma
4 – Braces he scored for Roma
5 – Games drawn as Roma manager
6 – Trophies he won with Roma (more than any other player)
7 – Shirt number he is most commonly associated with
8 – Position Roma finished when he was manager in 2005
9 – European Cup appearances for Roma
10 – Goals in his highest scoring season (1983-84)
11 – Appearances in the European Cup Winners’ Cup
12 – Countries he played games in for Roma (including Italy)
13 – Roma’s 13th top scorer at the time of his retirement
14 – Games he managed for Roma in 2005
15 – Match-winning goals scored for Roma
16 – Seasons with at least one appearance for Roma
17 – Date in May 1980 when he won his first Coppa Italia
18 – Age at debut in February 1974
19 – Yellow cards in Serie A
20 – Games taken to score first Roma goal
21 – Age when he scored first Roma goal
22 – Years spent as academy manager (1994-2016)
23 – Date in May 1991 of his farewell match
24 – Number of Roma teammates he shared a pitch with for 4,000 minutes or more
25 – Currently Roma’s 25th top scorer all time
26 – League appearances in 1982-83, when Roma won the Scudetto
27 – Date in March 1977 of his only derby goal (a volley)
28 – Players he used as manager
29 – Age when became captain (briefly) in 1984
30 – Substitute appearances for Roma
31 – Consecutive games started in league and cup after returning from his last loan away
32 – Minute of his first Roma goal in 1976
33 – Age when he scored his first UEFA Cup goal
34 – Appearances in European competition
35 – Age at last appearance for Roma
36 – Age when he officially retired
37 – League goals scored for Roma
38 – Goals scored under Nils Liedholm, the manager who used him most
39 – Age he became Roma’s youth sector manager
40 – Appearances in all competitions in the Scudetto season of 1982-83
41 – Total number of league goals scored in his career, including his loans at Genoa
42 – Appearances made for Genoa during his first loan spell away from Roma
43 – Most appearances he made in a season
44 – Number of teams he played against more than once for Roma
45 – Games he spent as an unused sub for Roma
46 – Serie A appearances he made for Roma in between his two loans at Genoa
47 – Total goals he scored for Roma
48 – Roma academy players to debut between 1994-2016, his stint as academy manager
49 – Number of Roma teammates he shared a pitch with in 25 matches or more
50 – Age when he managed Roma
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