Totti: Kickin’ The @#$% Out Of Lazio Since ‘87

By: chris | March 18th, 2008

This is easily the video find of my entire time here. This is a video of highlights from Francesco’s first derby when he was with A.S. Lodigiani as an 11 year old. I recall seeing him comment on this on Sky Italia or something a few years back as well.

I’m 99.9% sure he’s #4. Or you could just watch for the kid tearing through everybody else. (They won 2-0….duh.)

No embedding, here’s the link.

(Lodigiani being the youth team he played for before signing with Roma in ‘89 - the rest, as they say, is history.)

Added bonus:

Totti scoring against Alessandro Nesta’s Lazio as a boy, still with Lodigiani.

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• Kamran |  March 18th, 2008 at 8:42 am

  
  
  

  That is surreal. Who scored the goals?

  Posted from Australia

  

• Kamran |  March 18th, 2008 at 8:43 am

  
  
  

  I mean, were both the goals scored by him?

  Posted from Australia

  

• Omar |  March 18th, 2008 at 8:44 am

  
  
  

  hehehe how the hell did you find this?
  Forza Capitano! he’s got that same expression on his face.. that sneaky look.

  btw Chris it says in the clip that he’s number 8 not 4.

  Posted from Canada

  

• chris |  March 18th, 2008 at 8:46 am

  
  
  

  That’s in the second clip Omar….not sure about the first.

  Posted from United States

  

• Ezio |  March 18th, 2008 at 8:47 am

  
  
  

  Driving to work this morning I was behind a car with the license plate “DDR 442″… I take as a sign for the game tomorrow! When it comes to Derbies, one believes in everything, omens and superstitions…

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• Gabriella (ASR) |  March 18th, 2008 at 8:50 am

  
  
  

  that was a good match, I love watching primavera and kids playing!

  Ezio, that is spooky

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• Gollum |  March 18th, 2008 at 9:00 am

  
  
  

  Wow, my co-ed team still can’t play with that much tactical awareness haha

  Posted from United States

  

• Scott |  March 18th, 2008 at 9:07 am

  
  
  

  These videos show hy it will take decades for the US to even remotely catch up to any serious soccer powerhouse…those 11 year old kids made intelligent runs and passes that most US players in high school don’t know how to make.

  Posted from United States

  

• Maria |  March 18th, 2008 at 9:17 am

  
  
  

  What a great video! Childhood videos bring tears to my eyes!

  Posted from United States

  

• Ezio |  March 18th, 2008 at 9:19 am

  
  
  

  It would be a good start when the current generation of players will grow into coaches and referees that actually understand the game. My brother and sister were coached in high school by failed football coaches that didn’t know shite about soccer (or as I prefer, “real football”…) and picked teams and plays out of their arse, and I have seen refs calling offsides on corner kicks, and kids (and overzealous brothers…) getting ejected for protesting such an asinine decision…

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• Peter |  March 18th, 2008 at 9:36 am

  
  
  

  Scott - My thoughts exactly. Their field-vision was incredible.

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• Gollum |  March 18th, 2008 at 9:37 am

  
  
  

  Very true Ezio, I’ve seen the same up here in Canada (and I assume we’re even worse off than you guys). Pretty much the coaches just go to the track team and pick the 10 fastest players regardless of talent. Luckily I was always pretty fast, but it’s hard to play on a team when no one has any positional sense or composure. Unfortunately only hockey matters here.

  Posted from United States

  

• DeGuilio |  March 18th, 2008 at 9:46 am

  
  
  

  Classic video!

  Off Topic: For what it’s worth one of the dudes on Fox Football Fone-In like’s Roma to win the Champions League. Steven Cohen who’s a rabid Chelsea supporter thinks Roma will beat his Chelsea in the final. He’s not extremely familiar with pronunciation of names but he likes what he’s seen lately and feels Roma are playing the best football in Europe. Against ManU he’s got Roma winning 3-2 on aggregate, they other guy has ManU winning 3-1. I like Cohen because he isn’t one of those English pundits that think’s every team outside of England is inferior. The other guys, Nicholas Webster can be a little subjective at times. He thinks Roma relies too much on Totti and thinks Ferguson will have multiple men marking Totti all night. I say please Mr. Ferguson go ahead and do this, KA, Vucinic, Mancini, Guily, DDR (actually no you stay with Ronaldo), Simone, and Cici can pick up the slack on attack.

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• DeGuilio |  March 18th, 2008 at 9:50 am

  
  
  

  sorry i know were talking about the derby but one more thing about ManU.

  This was our squad that night:

  32 Doni
  2 Christian Panucci

  5 Philippe Mexes

  13 Cristian Chivu

  77 Marco Cassetti

  4 Christian Wilhelmsson

  7 David Pizarro
  16 Daniele De Rossi
  30 Alessandro Mancini

  10 Francesco Totti

  23 Mirko Vucinic

  Bench:
  Matteo Ferrari 21
  Gianluca Curci 1

  Rodrigo Defendi 19

  Stefano Okaka Chuka 35

  Aleandro Rosi 28

  Ricardo Faty 14

  I think it’s safe to say we’re a little better!

  Posted from United States

  

• Daniele |  March 18th, 2008 at 10:01 am

  
  
  

  Your damn right we are.

  Replace Chivu with Juan, Giuly, Cici, even Espo got in on the action last leg. And Brighi is a much better vice De Rossi than Faty.

  We have upgraded tremendously.

  This year, we will win in England.

  Posted from United States

  

• maro |  March 18th, 2008 at 12:13 pm

  
  
  

  De Guilio [sic?], that dreadful evening, apart from everything possible going desperately wrong, we were without Perrotta (suspended), Tonetto, Aquilani, and Taddei (who pulled up five minutes before kick-off). We didn’t have any depth and we were down to our bare bones; more, we were without our three (four?) players “di corsa,” the players who do the running for the rest of the team, who make the whole giallorosso mechanism tick. Vooch was shoehorned into playing as trequartista behind Totti because Spags had been relying on Rodrigo playing there and so hadn’t worked on something else in the build-up to the match. It was a horrible, horrible evening for all sorts of reasons, but so very much had already gone wrong before the game even kicked off. Were we to lose those four guys again, clearly we have much, much better alternatives, but I also don’t think (touch wood), we’re going to have to make do without them anyway. Forza la Magica. Daje Lupi.

  Posted from United Kingdom

  

• maro |  March 18th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

  
  
  

  Oh, and I don’t think Spags will ever again play Panucci on the left. That was another lesson he learnt that night. Were he to have his time all over again, I don’t think there’s any doubt he’d play Ferrari in the middle and Chivu at fullback - or, at the outside, Cassetti on the left and Panucci on the right. Spags learnt a lot that evening, as did the boys. That, of course, is precisely what experience is really all about.

  Posted from United Kingdom

  

• Kistajk |  March 19th, 2008 at 1:50 am

  
  
  

  does anyone have video of Totti’s elder brother? Totti always said his brother was a much better player, but unlucky with his career path.

  btw, 11 y/o Roma kids were much much better against their Lazio counterparts.

  Posted from Australia

  

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