Benfica youngster Romario Baldé produced perhaps the worst ‘Panenka’ of all time in the Uefa Youth League.

Roma footballer Francesco Totti may have started a new trend.

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Champions League Group E

Roma captain Francesco Totti has thanked Manchester City for giving him extra motivation to score on Tuesday.

Manchester City’s social media team were left with egg on their face after this tweet welcoming the Roma team and their iconic captain Francesco Totti to England.

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Champions League Group E

Francesco Totti made Serie A history last night as his first-half penalty in a 3-1 victory over 10-man Genoa saw the veteran striker become the league’s joint-second highest scorer of all time.

The managerial merry-go-round has stopped spinning, at least for now, but experience tells us that it won’t be long before it’s cranked up to full speed again.

Having dipped his toe in some tactical experimentation in Belgrade, it will hardly come as the shock of the new season to learn that Giovanni Trapattoni will be reverting to first principles for Ireland’s opening World Cup qualifier in Kazakhstan next month.

Football these days is full of greedy young men and grasping young women, players and their WAGs, a set of people who inhabit a world of their own, utterly separate from the world of their fans.

He played no part in the national team’s qualification campaign, but the gifted young attacker was included when Giovanni Trapattoni named his squad for the European Championship finals.

Euro 2012 will be Giovanni Trapattoni’s third time to lead a team at the finals of a major international competition. Paul Kelly looks at the campaigns in which his under-achieving Italy recorded two wins, three draws and two defeats.

First, Giovanni Trapattoni appeared to confound popular logic by leaving James McClean out of the latest Irish squad. Then he appeared to confound his own logic by calling him up.

Republic of Ireland boss Giovanni Trapattoni has asked skipper Robbie Keane to be his Francesco Totti as he begins his preparations for the Euro 2012 finals.

Italy coach Cesare Prandelli has revealed Roma captain Francesco Totti could return to the national team at Euro 2012.

LIONEL MESSI scored his fifth hat-trick of the season as Barcelona posted a comfortable win at Malaga.

Robbie Keane fulfilled Niall Quinn’s prediction when he completed a half-century of international goals in Macedonia last night.

I DON’T think we’re going to end up in a GPO-type situation here. That is to say, it’s unlikely that in years to come hundreds of thousands will lay retrospective claim to having been in the Aviva Stadium on the evening of March 29, 2011 to witness the rising of the latest star in Irish football.

AC Milan had Zlatan Ibrahimovic sent off as they were held to a shock draw at home to basement boys Bari at the San Siro.

SHAKHTAR DONETSK scored three goals in 13 minutes to claim a stunning come-from-behind win in the Italian capital.

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ROMA coach Claudio Ranieri believes he has the full backing of his players ahead of tonight’s Champions League last 16 clash with Shakhtar Donetsk.

Roma president Rosella Sensi has claimed that unsettled captain Francesco Totti is still at the heart of the club’s project.

AC Milan booked their place in the last 16 of the Champions League after posting a scrappy 2-0 victory over Auxerre in Burgundy.

GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI said he hopes fans in his native Italy will look back on his time in charge of the national side in a different light, following the arrest of former referee Byron Moreno.

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Italy fans will have to wait until May 11 to find out if Francesco Totti is to return to the national team, according to Azzurri coach Marcello Lippi.

Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho has expressed his disbelief that Roma captain Francesco Totti escaped severe punishment for the provocative gestures he made at fans of relegation-threatened Lazio on Sunday.

Roma captain Francesco Totti has signed a contract extension until June 2014, the Serie A club confirmed tonight.

Francesco Totti is considering performing a U-turn and making himself available to the Italy national team again.

ITALY have made it, and with a match to spare, just as they did when they won the World Cup in 1982 and 2006, as Marcello Lippi was keen to point out.

Giovanni Trapattoni has labelled Republic of Ireland captain Robbie Keane as 'my Totti', with reference to the legendary Italian player Francesco Totti.

LIVERPOOL closed in on the signing of Roma’s Alberto Aquilani yesterday with boss Rafael Benitez insisting the midfielder will “excite” the fans.

Liverpool closed in on the signing of Roma's Alberto Aquilani today with boss Rafael Benitez insisting the midfielder will "excite" the fans.

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ROMA coach Luciano Spalletti is keeping his cards close to his chest ahead of tonight’s crunch Champions League last-16 clash against Arsenal at the Stadio Olimpico.

Roma coach Luciano Spalletti is keeping his cards close to his chest ahead of tomorrow’s crunch Champions League last-16 clash against Arsenal at the Stadio Olimpico.

AC Milan fans are not the only people anxious to see David Beckham play in Serie A.

THE ODDS are that we will see Stephen Ireland in a pair of Superman underpants again before we see him back in the green shirt.

JOSE MOURINHO tightened his grip on Serie A and claimed bragging rights in his personal duel with Claudio Ranieri after Inter defeated Juventus 1-0 on Saturday.

Chelsea midfielder Deco has labelled his red card against Roma as “crazy”.