Opisać Tottiego
To Describe Totti

Summary/Abstract: Words are helpless when describing Totti. Historical analogies? Perhaps Robert Guiscard, Frederic Hohenstauff, Francesco Sforza, Gattamelata, possibly Cesare Borgia. In this manner Francesco “Il Capitano” Totti becomes part of a long list of heroic rascals from the Apennine Peninsula – cursed emperors, self-proclaimed princes, unruly condottieri. There is no, and probably has never been, player more immersed in world history. The captain of Roma is not a symbol of our times, and says nothing about our contemporaneity. Totti is not part of the present but resembles a hero from another distant epoch – a recollection of the might of the Italy of yore...

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