Francesco Totti retires: Roma confirm legendary captain will leave at end of season after 25 years
FRANCESCO TOTTI will retire from football at the end of the season.
The legendary Roma captain, who has been at the club for 25 years, will leave when this term ends and become a director.
The legendary Francesco Totti will retire at the end of the seasonGetty Images
Totti, 40, joined the Italian side as a youngster in 1989 and made the bump up to the senior level three years later.
He won Serie A in 2001.
Since then he has gone on to score 250 league goals for the club, more than any other Serie A player in history has managed for a single club.
Roma’s sporting director Monchi said: “In terms of Totti, I already knew that there was an agreement with the club that this would be his final year as a player, then he’d start as a director.
“Francesco is Roma. I want to be as close to him as possible. I’d love to learn even one per cent of the huge amount that he knows.”
Totti is regarded as one of Italy’s finest players and the striker, who has 58 caps for his country and won the 2006 World Cup, has scored 307 goals in 783 games for his boyhood club.
Francesco Totti will now become a director at the Serie A sideRex FeaturesFrancesco Totti will wave goodbye to his club of 25 years at the end of the seasonGetty Images
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Totti's final game will be the home clash against Genoa on May 28.
For Totti the writing had been on the wall for a while after his playing time this season was severely limited by manager Luciano Spalletti.
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