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When Francesco Totti made his first-team debut for Roma in March 1993, nobody would have predicted that he’d spend the next 25 years at the club.
The Italian made the first of 786 appearances for Roma on March 28, 1993, when he came off the bench in a 2-0 win at Brescia.
The goals came from Claudio Caniggia and Sinisa Mihajlovic with a trademark free-kick, and we’ve revisited that day to look back at the starting XI who got to share with Totti what we now know to be a landmark day.
The goalkeeper had a pretty nomadic career, appearing for nine clubs in total, but his best spell came at Roma. Cervone won the only honour of his career, the 1991 Coppa Italia, with the club, for whom he made 235 appearances for over eight years.
Nowadays he’s the goalkeeping coach of Lebanon, which is, well, quite something.
Having started his career at Lecce, Garzya joined Roma in 1991 and spent three years at the club. The defender later went on to help Torino win promotion to Serie A before retiring in 2005.
Since then he’s taken several coaching roles within the Italy set-up, including coach of the Under-21s.
A World Cup winner with Brazil in 1994 and a Roma hero, Aldair spent 13 years with the Giallorossi and has since been inducted into their Hall of Fame.
After winning the Coppa Italia and Serie A title 10 years apart – the latter alongside Totti – Aldair eventually left for Genoa in 2003, and Roma retired the No.6 shirt for a decade until the arrival of Kevin Strootman.
Totti inherited the captaincy from the defender, who retired in 2010