{"id":58920,"date":"2017-05-29T09:37:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T08:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=58920"},"modified":"2017-05-29T09:38:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T08:38:37","slug":"francesco-totti-ends-roma-career-after-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/francesco-totti-ends-roma-career-after-25-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Francesco Totti Ends Roma Career After 25 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Francesco Totti ends Roma career after 25 years and 786 games in emotional farewell.<\/h2>\n<p>Francesco Totti bid an emotional farewell to Roma after a remarkable 25-season career with his hometown club, contributing to a 3-2 win over Genoa in Serie A.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-58923\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/totti-retires.jpg\" alt=\"Francesco Totti ends Roma career\" width=\"650\" height=\"384\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Almost 60,000 fans inside the Stadio Olimpico stood up and cheered when 40-year-old Totti replaced Mohamed Salah in the 54th minute. And even if Totti did not score or set up any goals, his mere presence was what the supporters came to see.<\/p>\n<p>In a 25-year stint with Roma that saw him symbolise Italian football, Totti scored 250 Serie A goals, won one World Cup and saw four presidents walk through the doors of the Quirinal Palace.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-58922\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/francesco-totti-roma.jpg\" alt=\"Francesco Totti Ends Roma Career After 25 Years\" width=\"650\" height=\"476\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately the time has come. I\u2019ve cried every day,\u201d Totti said in a post-match speech from the center of the pitch. \u201cIt\u2019s a decision I made with my wife and my family. I would stay here another 25 years. Thank you Roma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would have liked to write a poem or a song but I\u2019ve tried to express myself with my feet,\u201d Totti added.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francesco Totti ends Roma career after 25 years and 786 games in emotional farewell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,135,127],"tags":[8084,22562],"class_list":["post-58920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-football","category-sport","tag-roma","tag-serie-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}