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Why Totti Resigned as Roma Director

By Daily Sports on June 18, 2019

Francesco Totti launched a scathing attack on the Roma hierarchy as he confirmed he has left his post as a club director, ending a 30-year association with the Serie A outfit.

Totti joined the Roma board after retiring as a player in 2017, but differences between the former attacker and the club’s board are said to have resulted in him leaving.

Tensions are said to have become particularly strained between Totti and club owner Jim Pallotta since March, when Monchi quit as sporting director and coach Eusebio Di Francesco was sacked.

Speculation went into overdrive after Totti failed to appear at Roma’s club meeting in London last week, where new coach Paulo Fonseca was presented, with Pallotta insisting the Azzurri icon was invited.

Pallotta was unsure why Totti decided against attending but insisted he would be given “time”, and now the two parties have separated.

He recently claimed Totti was offered the role of technical director. However, in an explosive news conference on Monday, Totti said: “I never had the chance to express myself. I was never involved in a genuine technical project.

“In the first year, that can happen. In the second, I realised what I wanted to do and we never got together, never helped each other.

“They knew my intentions and what I wanted, to give so much to this club and team, but they never wanted me to, in all honesty. They excluded me from every decision.

“I will now take other paths. At the moment another club owner wants to trust in me, I’ll always be ready.

“I am not here to point the blame towards one or the other. We had started a journey, it was not respected, so I am moving on.” (Goal)

•Photo shows Francesco Totti

Source Daily Sports

Posted June 18, 2019