Daniele De Rossi has linked his entire sporting life to Roma, where he is the second player with the highest number of official appearances after Francesco Totti. With the Giallorossi, for whom he played from 2001 to 2019, he won two Italian Cups and an Italian Super Cup.
Eighteen seasons and six hundred games since the day he made his debut with the scudetto on his chest. Still “Captain of the Future”, De Rossi became an icon even before succeeding Totti and is now projected as a legend of the Giallorossi.
Daniele De Rossi attends the first press conference as AS Roma coach at the Fulvio Bernardin Sports Center (gettyimages)
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Captain Future's Beginnings
His debut came in the 2001-02 season, when he began to make some appearances in the first team. The first was European: against Anderlecht on 20 October 2001. That year also three participations in the Italian Cup. The debut in Serie A took place on 25 January 2003 in Como. Then first as a starter and first centre at home against Torino. This would also be repeated against Atalanta in the last match of the championship. In the 2003-04 season he joined Fabio Capello's rotation. Another European goal came there, against Vardar in the UEFA Cup. On 8 September 2004, in Real's 4-2 win at the Bernabeu, he scored after three minutes to beat Casillas. With Spalletti on the bench, on 15 March 2006 during the UEFA Cup against Middlesbrough, he wore the captain's armband for the first time. After the Oscar for the best young footballer of 2006, De Rossi changes his number and takes the 16 which will forever link him to the Giallorossi colours.
Daniele De Rossi new coach of AS Roma (GettyImages)
Daniele De Rossi (Getty)
The first title in 2007 After two finals lost to the Nerazzurri, the first leg of the last leg of the 2006/2007 Coppa Italia ended in a 6-2 victory for the Giallorossi. De Rossi participated with a goal. The party arrived at San Siro despite the 2-1 defeat: for De Rossi, it was the first trophy at club level. The celebration would be double with the Super Cup the following August. His perfect penalty in the 78th minute decided the match, again against Inter. A damn penalty against United in Manchester made De Rossi say “this is the worst day of my career”. Revenge returned in the Coppa Italia, with a 2-1 victory in a single match at the Olimpico, again against Inter. On April 11, 2009, he scored for the first time in the derby but LAzio won 4-2.
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Daniele De Rossi (The Press)
In 2010, the championship came closer. With Zeman the disappointment of finishing out of the titles. With Garcia the revival and 500 appearances for the Giallorossi. Protagonist with a goal on the day of Totti's farewell, with Di Francesco on the bench, he reached the semi-final of the Champions League.
On 26 September 2018, in the home win against Frosinone (4-0), De Rossi celebrated his six hundredth match with the Roma jersey, the only player other than Totti to have achieved this feat.
Daniele De Rossi, like Roma (AS Roma)
The new career
Welcome Olimpico during the match against Parma on May 26, 2019, 18 years later and against the same opponent as the 2001 scudetto Then the adventure at Boca Juniors and retirement.
Daniele De Rossi (The Press)
World champion
With the senior Italian national team he became world champion in 2006, reached the final of the 2012 European Championship and third place in the 2013 Confederations Cup. At Olympic level he won the bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics and was European Youth Champion -21 champion in 2004.
Roma coach
On 16 January 2024, he was appointed as the new coach of Roma, with whom he signed a contract until the end of the season, replacing the dismissed José Mourinho. On 20 January, he got his first job in Serie A and, at the same time, his first league victory as Roma coach thanks to a 2–1 victory against Verona. On 10 April, on the eve of the UEFA Europa League quarter-final, the coach led Roma to a 1–0 victory against Milan; the following week, he confirmed the team's success by winning again 2–1. In June 2024, he officially renewed his contract with the Giallorossi club until June 30, 2027.
Daniele De Rossi (AP/Andrew Medichini)
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