Totti refuses to be Putin’s lawyer

A former Italian football star Francesco Totti He has played for Roma throughout his career, and although he has concluded his career in 2017, he remains one of the most popular sports figures on the Apennine Peninsula and beyond.

April eighth should attend a gala event organized by the Russian website Bookmaker Ratings. In Moscow, large posters were erected, on which Totti carries the famous number 10, with the inscription: the emperor comes to the third Rome. As is well known, the third Roman Empire is a historic idea of ​​nationalist leaders, and Russia and Moscow want to become the legitimate successor of Rome and Constantinople as the capital of the Roman Empire and the defender of Christianity.

But it may happen that the event will pass without the 2006 World Champion. Totti has been criticism that a trip to Moscow would promote the Russian president Vladimir Putin. “My trip to Moscow has triggered endless controversy in recent days. I am not a politician or diplomat, I am an athlete who promotes sports values ​​worldwide, « Totti told Ansa. « If I receive a call from the competent authority, I should not attend the event in Moscow, I will do it without delay, » Totti, 48, is no longer so excited, « who would also make a lot of money with his presence.

The right -wing Italian government, which supported Ukraine against Russian aggression and now weighs its position on the US initiative to end the war, has not yet commented on a possible Totti trip to Moscow, and many opposition leaders have called for it to cancel it.