Remember Romario?
By stvasile
@stvasile (7306)
Romania
January 29, 2008 5:25am CST
Well, if you do, find out he's still playing football!
I was checking out today's birthdays and I was amazed to see his name among the active players.
It's his 42nd birthday, and he's playing for Vasco Da Gama, in Brazil. Not only does he ply, but he is 10th with the best goal average in Brasileirão 2007 (0.60 goals per game) and
16th that needs less time to score in Brasileirão 2007. He scored every 109 minutes.
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8 responses
@iDivision (1412)
• Latvia
29 Jan 08
you mean Romário de Souza Faria?
if yes, then he was and is one of greatest brasil football players in my eyes sice i was a teenager and saw on TV how he playing.
Happy Borthday to Romario!
@iDivision (1412)
• Latvia
29 Jan 08
as i know he is in brasil football club "Vasco da Gama" and scored 3 goals last year.
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@Foxfire1875 (2010)
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8 Feb 08
Wow still playing I remember him, he is obviously still a good player.
@Patrickcohen (3)
•
15 Feb 08
Ta get him playing "bota-fogo" more ta he stopped for a while.
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@LISAANDELYSIA (285)
• China
2 Oct 08
one of my fave soccer players,king of goal area,in his own way romario plays
the unique wisdom there.in my opinion he's par with pele and ronaldo in all brazil
footballplayers at skill,and also he was my kinda first loved player at all.legendary forever.
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@stvasile (7306)
• Romania
2 Oct 08
What makes me sad is that some people haven't even heard of him... That's just why I started this discussion on hid birthday: maybe some younger people, who haven't seen him play, will at least browse his name on the Internet and find out who he is and what he did for football.
@lakantar (1573)
• Greece
2 Oct 08
Though he is a difficult character (lots of fights, arguments etc) he sure is one of the 90's football legends... I know he is still active and that he scored more than 1000 goals but FIFA didn't recognize his record and he appear to have a little less than 1000 and his goal is to reach 1000 before retiring. he was also playing in australia a couple of years ago I think...
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@stvasile (7306)
• Romania
2 Oct 08
I'm afraid he is. On the Wikipedia page, it only says he played for Vasco da Gama during the 2007-2008 season, not that he played through all the reason.
If you check out Vasco's current squad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_de_Regatas_Vasco_da_Gama#Current_squad you will see that Romario is not there. Even more, if you visit the official Vasco site, you can see all the current players: http://www.crvascodagama.com/index.php?display=FUTEBOL-9
@ram_cv (16513)
• India
2 Oct 08
Romario was really a great player to watch. More than anything else he was an amazing goal scorer. He ball control and finish were exquisite. But, I thought his tongue used to get him into trouble ever so often and thus he played less than what he could have played for Brazil.
Cheers!
Ram
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