Totti: ‘Football losing the group’

By Football Italia staff

Roma legend Francesco Totti feels players are “less of a group” nowadays as “everyone is isolated in his room on his phone…”

Er Pupone turns 42 next Thursday, and will release his autobiography on the same day.

In anticipation of that he has given an interview to La Repubblica, to be published in full tomorrow, and today there was a brief preview.

“I was like the players, I know them well,” Totti, now a Giallorossi director, said.

“I know the secret language of glances and half-phrases and I try to make myself useful. Now though you almost solely speak English, so if you don't know it you won’t understand anything.

“Like that you’re less of a group: in pre-season training, when you come off the pitch, everyone is isolated in his room on his phone, surfing the web and sending messages.”

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