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Winning the "scudetto", the top Italian league title, with AS Roma in 2001 kept that place in his heart.
Maybe he'll have a new top highlight if Italy wins the World Cup on Sunday.
Totti, who is still regaining his form from left leg surgery, played all 120 minutes of Italy's 2-0 extra time win over Germany in the semifinals Tuesday.
"It's the realization of a dream, we only need a little but more to make history," Totti said.
In the first two minutes of the first extra period, Italy hit the goal frame twice. Then Fabio Grosso's goal put Italy ahead one minute from the end and Alessandro Del Piero added another score in injury time to avoid a penalty shootout.
"On the second shot off the crossbar I started to have some bad thoughts. But we kept on believing and kept on attacking and we got two extremely important goals. It's an indescribable feeling," Totti said.
"Before Grosso's goal when there was only a minute left I was already thinking about how I was going to shoot my penalty, Totti added.
Totti still has about 10 screws and a metal support rod holding the bones together in his left leg. He had a good first half but clearly grew fatigued as the match wore on.
"We believe until the end, we have the conviction that we can win at any moment of the game," he said.
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