A tribute to Italian legend Francesco Totti, the last of football’s gladiators.
Supernova (noun): An astronomical event that occurs during the last stellar evolutionary phase of a massive star’s life, whose dramatic and catastrophic destruction is marked by one final titanic explosion. This causes the sudden appearance of a new “bright” star.
March 28th, 1993. La Palma, Spain. Astronomer F. Garcia’s sangria must’ve tasted that extra bit sweeter as he detected the first and the last supernova, code name SN 1993J, on Messier 81, an erstwhile popular exploratory galaxy. Hundreds of miles away, in Rome, Vujadin Buskov looked over to his bench and ordered a 16-year-old blonde-haired midfielder to warm up. Two minutes later, Stadio Olympico clapped on Francesco Totti for the first time. If Supernova was a football career, it would be his.
