Italian footballer Francesco Totti joins the ever increasing ranks of sports stars who have joined various poker sites as representatives. Totti's new team, along with his hometown club AS Roma, will be PartyPoker.


"I have faced many challenges in my career and I always apply myself with skill, intelligence, loyalty and passion. You need all these abilities for poker and it is also a game that excites me and is a lot of fun," Totti said.

Totti is known to be an avid poker player, and reportedly the pots played at AS Roma's away trips have sometimes reached at least five figure sums in euros.

Francesco Totti has represented AS Roma throughout his career and played 58 times for the national team. He is an idol with the Roma fans and well respected in all of Italy despite never quite reaching the same level in the national team as at club level. Totti's titles incude the Scudetto in 2001 and World Cup win in 2006.

What comes to Italian poker stars, Dario Minieri is known as a fierce AS Roma fan.

Source: Bluff Europe.