Soccer museum for AS Roma
On September 15th the exhibition celebrating the 80 years’ existence of the AS Roma fanclub finished. It was such a success – more than 200,000 visitors came to the ex-Mattatoio to see signed shirts, shoes of famous players of the past, Totti’s Pallone d’Oro and much more – that the idea was forwarded to create a genuine museum for the soccer team.
Local hero Francesco Totti himself has set up a non-profit organization in order to achieve this and Rome’s mayor, Veltroni, himself a Roma fan, has endorsed it. All that seems to lack is a suitable spot, which has to be located in Rome’s Testaccio area, where the team started in 1927.
Veltroni has promised that, should the rival team Lazio also want a museum, he would offer the same assistance.