Totti Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot
By: Martha | February 10th, 2007
In only the latest chapter of the endless will-he-or-won’t-he saga of Francesco Totti’s possible return to the national team, Totti himself announced to the press yesterday that he has “better things to do at the moment” than play for the Azzurri. Dear me. Are you cringing? I’m cringing.
One on hand, since one of the other things he has to do looks like this, I suppose one could sort of understand what he’s thinking. Plus, as I discussed before, he’s getting older, and might be starting to realize his great form for Roma may well be down to the extra rest he’s getting by not being part of the Azzurri set-up.
But REALLY. The man has been around long enough to know better than to say something that idiotic to a journalist. I mean, if you asked every Italian football fan and player if they had anything better to do than play for the national team, I daresay 95% of them would say something like “Are you kidding me? I’d cut off my arm to be regular in the side.” Those people? Not likely to be too happy with the priorities of the already hateable (so I hear, anyway) Totti.
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Generally, I would agree that no player “has something better to do” than playing for the Azzurri. However, with your brilliant placement of that Ilary shot, one needs to think twice of Totti’d situation. She truly may be “something better to do”.
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I really just think as a National Team Player, Totti feels he has nothing more to accomplish. His last game as an Azzurri was a World Cup Win. The last time he walked off the field as a memeber it was with a trophy in hand. He once said that in 1982, he was a boy partying in the streets after the World Cup and remembered how much it meant to the people. He said that he wanted to be part of a side that brought the same joy to the people of Italy and he was. It doesn’t get any better than walking off the field as a World Champion.
That being said, he doesn’t have to be such an ass about the way he does things. He could just say that, or whatever else the reason might be. But he has a rep to uphold. He is ER PUPONE. More like ER STRONZO sometimes.
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Martha, I’ve gotta say, when I read that headline, it was the first time I’ve laughed out loud at reading one in a long time. By the way, I’ve never liked Totti. Frick.
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All he had to say was something like Nesta said: he’s worried about his overall form deteriorating if he plays for both club and country so he’s considering retiring from the national team for the good of both. Given the injury he’s still recovering from, fans (and his teammates on the Azzurri) might be disappointed, but they would understand where he’s coming from. But of course, Nesta has some class.
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