DANIELE De Rossi laughs when he’s asked why he has never left AS Roma.
“It’s a good question, it’s one sometimes I make to myself,” he says.
One of Italy’s greatest ever midfielders, with 100 caps to his name, has played almost 500 games for Roma in a professional career that started in 2001.
And despite nibbles from abroad, most notably the two Manchester clubs in the English Premier League within 12 months of each other in 2012-13, De Rossi could never bring himself to leave the hometown club for which he was a youth team player and then a ball boy as a kid.It’s a show of loyalty rarely seen in football, where so many players make so many moves to so many clubs.
And yet at Roma there’s two instances of homebodies going nowhere, with De Rossi’s childhood idol Francesco Totti - the club’s captain, record games holder and goals scorer - also remaining for his entire 24-year career thus far.
DANIELE De Rossi laughs when he’s asked why he has never left AS Roma.“It’s a good question, it’s one sometimes I make to myself,” he says.One of Italy’s greatest ever midfielders, with 100 caps to his name, has played almost 500 games for Roma in a professional career that started in 2001.And despite nibbles from abroad, most notably the two Manchester clubs in the English Premier League within 12 months of each other in 2012-13, De Rossi could never bring himself to leave the hometown club for which he was a youth team player and then a ball boy as a kid.It’s a show of loyalty rarely seen in football, where so many players make so many moves to so many clubs.And yet at Roma there’s two instances of homebodies going nowhere, with De Rossi’s childhood idol Francesco Totti - the club’s captain, record games holder and goals scorer - also remaining for his entire 24-year career thus far.
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