background.Totti has also been a star for Italy and he helped the Azzurri to the European Championship final in 2000 as well as the World Cup trophy in 2006.He grabbed global attention at E

Mal Meninga has pleaded for the future of the NRL All Stars match despite being forced to overlook big names like Cameron Smith, Sam Burgess and Jason Taumalolo.World All Stars coach Meninga refused to pick many involved in the recent Four Nations tournament because of fear of player burnout and a packed schedule over the next 12 months.While both he and Indigenous All Stars coach Laurie Daley have picked strong teams, headlined by Jarryd Hayne, Johnathan Thurston and Greg Inglis, for the February 10 exhibition match, a host of big names werent brought up at the selection table.The list of unavailable players also includes Cooper Cronk, Shaun Johnson, Aaron Woods, Matt Scott and Jesse Bromwich.With the 2017 World Cup on the horizon, and a season which includes the Auckland Nines, trans-Tasman Test and State of Origin, as well as the NRL season, Meninga said it was important to give the cream of the crop a break.Theyve played a lot of footy so we made sure that anyone who was involved in the Four Nations - for Australia, England, New Zealand or Scotland - we wouldnt be making them play. They needed a spell, Meninga said.The All Stars concept last year came into question because of concerns about scheduling and a large number of player withdrawals.Meninga did pick Jake Trbojevic and Jake Friend who were part of the Kangaroos squad but they were given the all clear because of limited game time during the Four Nations.The Indigenous All Stars have named several Kangaroos representatives including Inglis, Thurston and Sam Thaiday.Meninga said the game meant a lot to the indigenous people and pointed to the role rugby league played in reconciliation and addressing social issues.Its estimated Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders make up three per cent of the population but are over-represented in rugby league, especially at NRL and representative level.According to the NRL, indigenous people account for nine per cent of grassroots players, 10 per of coaching staff, 12 per cent of NRL players, 21 per cent of State of Origin players and 29 per cent of Kangaroo and Jillaroos players.Its the whole psyche of us being inclusive, no matter what culture you are, what gender, what social background - thats what this game represents, Meninga said.Meninga said Semi Radradra was not considered because he is awaiting a court hearing to answer domestic violence charges.World All Stars: Jarryd Hayne, David Mead, Joseph Leilua, Konrad Hurrell, Nene Macdonald, Mitchell Moses, Adam Reynolds, Nate Myles, Jake Friend, Jordan McLean, Gavin Cooper, Bryce Cartwright, Jake Trbojevic. 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Duchene scored two goals and had an assist, helping the Colorado Avalanche beat the Carolina Hurricanes 4-2 on Friday night to match the best 10-game start in team history.MILAN -- At 40, Francesco Totti may not be Romas `Golden Boy anymore, but he is still very much `the King of Rome.Totti celebrates his 40th birthday on Tuesday but the Champions Leagues oldest scorer is showing no signs of slowing down and indeed seems to have found a new lease of life.There was speculation last season that maybe the time had come for Il Capitano to hang up his boots and move into the boardroom but, with six goals in his past 11 league matches and several assists, Totti is proving his doubters wrong.Totti marked the final match of his 30s on Sunday by becoming only the second player to score 250 Serie A goals, reaching that mark with a penalty kick in Romas 3-1 loss at Torino.The man who upset Tottis pre-birthday celebrations, Torino coach Sinisa Mihajlovic, helped persuade then Roma coach Vujadin Boskov to hand a 16-year-old Totti his debut.Mihajlovic had been amazed by the precocious youngster, who was giving him and his fellow first-team defenders trouble in training as well as racking up goals for the youth team.On March 28, 1993, with Roma winning 2-0 at Brescia, Mihajlovic ran up to Boskov and said come on, bring the kid on... The rest is history.Mihajlovic joked at the weekend that Totti owes him a dinner for that, and it cant be at a pizzeria, it has to be oysters and champagne before adding he is the best player in Italy since Ive been here.And for nearly a quarter of a century Totti has been living up to those expectations. With his stunning goals and defense-splitting passes, Totti is, for many Roma fans, the epitomy of the Roman gladiator that he has tattooed on his right shoulder.If Rome is the Eternal City, Totti is Romas eternal leader and has been since he was first made captain in 1998, at the age of just 22.Zdenek Zeman, who promoted Totti to the captaincy, was such an ardent admirer that he once said: Who are the best five Italian players? Totti, Totti, Totti, Totti, Totti.Several teammates and coaches have compared Totti with a famous Roman monument, with Claudio Ranieri saying the star player is as important as the Colosseum is to Rome.He has been just as immovable.Totti has spent his entire career at Roma and wheen his current contract expires, he will have had 25 years in its first team -- remarkably more than 28 percent of the clubs existence.ddddddddddddTotti could have won more than the solitary Serie A title, two Italian Cups and two national Super Cups he lifted with Roma, but he rejected offers of more money and glory to remain with his childhood club.I grew up playing for Roma and I want to die playing for Roma ... I have always been a Roma fan, said Totti, who was raised in the Porta Metronia area of the city.Tottis face adorns murals and posters across Italys capital, where he is loved by Roma fans and respected by supporters of bitter rival Lazio, despite his antics against them.Totti has scored 11 times against Lazio and often celebrates these extra-special goals with t-shirts made for the occasion. One famously said I have purged you again, while he revealed another reading simply Game Over after a victory in May 2015.He hit the headlines in January of that year when he scored the second of two goals against Lazio and, in a pre-planned celebration for becoming the all-time leading scorer in the derby, grabbed his phone off Romas goalkeeping coach and took a selfie under the Curva Sud with thousands of adoring fans in the background.Totti has also been a star for Italy and he helped the Azzurri to the European Championship final in 2000 as well as the World Cup trophy in 2006.He grabbed global attention at Euro 2000 with one of the moments of the tournament, in the semifinals against the Netherlands. In the tense penalty shootout, the 23-year-old Totti kept his cool to cheekily chip Edwin van der Sar with his spot-kick.Totti was named man of the match in the final, despite Italy losing 2-1 to France.Totti played in all seven of Italys World Cup matches in 2006 and his last match for the Azzurri was the final against France, concluding his international career with 58 caps and nine goals.Asked what gift Totti should get for his 40th birthday, Roma coach Luciano Spalletti was among the people who suggested a time machine. ' ' '