Francesco Totti scored a quick-fire brace against Cesena on Saturday to break a scoring record that had stood for 56 years.
The enigmatic Roma captain scored twice within the first eight minutes to reach 211 Serie A goals for his club, surpassing the single-club record set by Swedish great Gunnar Nordahl.
The 35-year-old Totti took a backheel from Erik Lamela after just 40 seconds before firing home at Francesco Antonioli's near post thanks to a deflection off Maurizio Lauro.
And then on eight minutes he was there at the back post -- although television replays showed he was offside -- to tap home Lamela's cross from the left.
It meant he had caught and surpassed Nordahl's 210 Serie A goals for AC Milan between 1949 and 1956.
Nordahl, however, managed his feat in a seven year spell and in just over half the number of games that it took Totti, over a 20-year period, to reach his figure.
Within a minute of Totti's second goal, Fabio Borini had made it 3-0 as Roma picked apart their lowly opponents at will.
Source: AFP
