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Romario de Souza Faria(port. Romrio de Souza Faria; January 29, 1966, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - Brazilian footballer, striker. In 1994, he received a world champion medal and was recognized as the best football player of the year in the world. In 2010, he was elected to the lower house of the National Congress from the Socialist Party of Brazil.

Biography

Romario began his career in the Brazilian club Vasco da Gama and at a young age acquired a very scandalous reputation when he was expelled from the Brazilian national team at the World Youth Championship for violating the rules.

Having performed brilliantly at Olympic Games In 1988 in Seoul (having scored in both the semi-finals and the final, in which the Brazilians lost to the USSR team in extra time), Romario moved to PSV. There he had serious disagreements with coaches and teammates, which, however, did not stop him from scoring 98 goals in five seasons in the Dutch championship. In the summer of 1993, Barcelona bought Romario for £3 million.

At first, Brazilian coaches had difficulty adapting his strong individualism to team play. But performances in European clubs made his style more harmonious. In 1994, at the World Cup in the USA, Romario scored five important goals- Cameroon, Russia and Sweden in the group stage, the Netherlands in the quarter-finals and Sweden in the semi-finals. Another goal was scored in the penalty shootout in the final against Italy.

After the World Cup, he “darted” between two continents, changing clubs, disappeared from the national team for a long time, but managed to return to it at the Tournois de France in 1997. For the upcoming World Cup, the coaches played the “Ro-Ro” pairing: Romario - Ronaldo. He was prevented from playing at the World Championships in France by an injury received shortly before the start of the tournament. He almost managed to recover, but coach Mario Zagallo, after consulting with Zico, decided not to take him to the tournament. As a result, the 11th number, which Romario managed to receive in his application, was transferred to Emerson, who replaced him.

After this, Romario moved to his homeland in Brazil, where he played for a long time. In 2005, at the age of 39, he again became top scorer Brazilian Championship. In 2006 he moved to the American club Miami from the first division.

In 2007, the 41-year-old forward moved to his starting club, Vasco da Gama, and scored five goals for the team, approaching the 1,000-goal mark in his career. On May 21, 2007, Romario scored his 1000th goal (this achievement also includes 77 goals scored for the youth teams of Olaria and Vasco da Gama).

After doping scandal On April 15, 2008, Romario officially announced the end sports career(although he was forgiven, since the doping came through a remedy for baldness).

In mid-2009, it was announced that Romario had signed a contract with Club America from Rio de Janeiro. Romario agreed to help the club return to elite division Carioca Leagues.

The 10,000-seat stadium in Duque de Caxias is named after Romario.

A statue of Romario appeared on the field of the San Januario stadium in Rio de Janeiro, where the footballer scored his thousandth goal.

Statistics

Club	Season	Championship	Cup	Continent.	Others	Total
Games	Goals	Games	Goals	Games	Goals	Games	Goals	Games	Goals
Vasco da Gama	1985	12	8
1986	22	21
1987	25	13
1988	38	28
Total	97	70
PSV	1988/89	24	19	3	4	5	3			33	26
1989/90	20	23	2	2	4	6			26	31
1990/91	25	25	2	5	2	0			29	30
1991/92	14	9	1	0	2	0			17	9
1992/93	26	22	1	3	9	7			36	32
Total	109	98	9	14	22	16			140	128
Barcelona	1993/94	33	30	19	0	10	2			79	59
1994/95	13	4	0	0	5	3			18	7
Total	46	34	2	0	15	5			97	66
Flamengo	1995	16	8	5	1
1996	3	0	5	1
Total	19	8
Valencia	1996/97	5	4	0	0					5	4
Total	5	4	0	0					5	4
Flamengo	1997	4	3	8	7
Total	4	3
Valencia	1997/98	6	1	1	1					7	2
Total	6	1	1	1					7	2
Flamengo	1998	20	14	4	6
1999	19	12	7	7
Total	39	22
Vasco da Gama	2000	20	14	2	1
2001	18	21
Total	38	35
Fluminense	2002	22	15	7	5
Total	22	15
Al Sadd	2002/03	3	0
Total	3	0
Fluminense	2003	21	13
2004	13	5	2	2
Total	34	18
Vasco da Gama	2005	31	23	2	1	-	-	10	7	43	31
2006	-	-	1	3	-	-	10	6	11	9
Total	31	23	3	4	-	-	20	13	54	40
Miami	2006	21	17
Total	21	17
Adelaide United	2006/07	4	1
Total	4	1
Vasco da Gama	2007	6	3	3	2	1	0	9	10	19	15
Total	6	3	3	2	1	0	9	10	19	15
America (Rio)	2009	1	0
Total							1	0	1	0
Total	434	311

Country Brazil.

Height 169 cm

Role forward

Clubs He played for the Brazilian clubs Olaria (1984 - 1985),

"Vasco da Gama (1986 - 1987, 2000 - 2001),

"Flamengo" (1998 - 1999),

"Fluminense" (2002 - 2003),

Dutch PSV (1988 - 1993),

Spanish Barcelona (1993/94)

and Valencia (1996/97, 1997/98),

Qatari "Al-Shaad" (2003).

Currently playing again for Fluminense.

He scored 874 goals in official matches during his career.

Titles: World Champion (1994);

America's Cup winner (1989);

Dutch champion (1988/89, 1991/92, 1992/93);

Champion of Spain (1993/94);

Champion of Brazil (2000);

Romario. Unlucky Shorty

If you ask Brazilians living at home, in exile or, say, playing in the Russian championship, who is the best football player of our time, most of them will answer without hesitation: “Of course, Romario!” Despite the fact that the most popular forward will soon turn 38, that his capricious character is known to almost every Brazilian housewife and - the most paradoxical thing - that he was actually not involved in the victory of the national team at the World Championships in Korea and Japan.

However, the hero of the 2002 World Cup, Ronaldo, will pay tribute to the veteran and partner in the attack line in the qualifying round in the first words spoken to journalists after the golden final. “Everything was decided by the first goal against Caen,” admits the tournament’s top scorer. “From the outside, the scoring chance might have seemed a little clumsy, but in fact it was a classic toe kick (or “pim”, as the players would say) a la Romario."

A year ago, Romario did not go to Korea and Japan not because he played poorly or was unworthy of the national team. After all, at that time he was the most accurate sniper of the Brazilian championship as part of Vasco da Gama, and even in qualifying tournament managed to score four goals. The trouble is that Romario was never a good diplomat and always hit the truth in the face - be it an opponent on the field, a teammate or the coach of the national team. Luiz Felipe Scolari, who stepped onto the captain's bridge, did not immediately like this, and he skillfully got rid of the sharpness not only for scoring chances, but also for the striker's tongue. Although, without exaggeration, whole ranks of demonstrators stood up to defend Romario at that time.

But this was not the first injustice in the national team towards Shorty, as Romario is ironically called in Brazil for his short stature. As he recently told me Chief Editor popular Brazilian football magazine Placar Andre Fontanel, Romario deserved a place in the national team at the age of twenty - at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. However, the then Brazilian coach Tele Santana, like Oleg Romantsev in Japan, relied on the old guard and chose not to notice the rising star. According to my interlocutor, this was tantamount to Feola not taking Pele to the 1958 World Cup.

Four years later - in 1990 - Romario was doomed to get to the world championship in Italy. Even though by that time Torsida had lost sight of him: he moved to Holland, where he began regularly scoring for PSV. Romario was forgiven for leaving for Europe and losing to the Russians in the final of the 1988 Olympics in Seoul a year later, when he and Bebeto won Brazil the America's Cup, scoring the decisive goal against the Uruguayans at the Maracanã. But then a new misfortune occurred: shortly before the start of the World Championship, Shorty seriously damaged his ligaments ankle joint and, without completing his recovery, was forced to sit out the entire tournament on the bench. Although, according to many Brazilians, if he had been in Muller’s place in the decisive episode of the match with the Argentines, he probably would not have missed, even playing “on one leg.”

By the end of the next four-year cycle, in '94, Romario was already shining in Barcelona, where he became the champion and top scorer of the Spanish championship. Such feats cannot go unnoticed even overseas. However, Brazil coach Carlos Alberto Parreira did not pay attention to the Spanish legionnaire until his team was on the edge of the abyss: in the last qualifying match, Brazil was only content with victory. And Romario, urgently called to help, provided it. As well as winning the world championship in the States - albeit in a post-match penalty shootout. It is unlikely that the 27-year-old forward imagined then that he was at the peak of his career in the national team.

After his triumph in the USA, Romario returned to his homeland, where within two years with Flamengo he won two Rio de Janeiro state championships and the Mercosur Cup. Soon, however, Shorty was again overtaken by a black streak, and at the most inopportune moment. Half a month before the start of the championship, Romario was injured calf muscle right leg, which in the end almost healed, but was still sent home on the last day of entries for the tournament. Television footage of the super forward crying at a press conference then went around the whole world.

And in 2002, as mentioned above, Romario “did not fit the game plan” of Scolari.

Anyone else in his place would have taken to drinking after such troubles or thrown his boots in the trash, but he knows for himself that he continues to play and score to the delight of himself and millions of fans. By the way, Romario, with 874 goals, is today the second highest scorer in Brazilian history after Pele, who surpassed the fantastic 1000-goal mark. “I don’t think I’ll ever break the King’s record, but the closer I get to it, the more proud I’ll be in retirement,” the scorer says soberly.

By the way, despite his advanced age for a playing forward, Shorty continues to hang out with coaches and football officials. At the end of February, for example, he quarreled with the president of his current club, Fluminense, David Fischel, and went into self-imposed three-month exile in Qatar with the Al-Shaad team. Not for free, of course, but only... for one and a half million dollars. Not a bad fee for an almost 40-year-old football player, right?!

A month ago, Romario returned to Flu. Yes, not alone - he took with him from Al-Shaad his friend and compatriot Serginho...

Last winter, I and the leaders of one of Russian clubs Premier League team had a chance to visit Brazil in order to make a valuable acquisition there. One evening an acquaintance found me at the hotel football agent, who, as it turned out, had rushed from another city, where Fluminense was playing an away match. In his hands he had a small package, which he held - almost according to Mayakovsky - “like a bomb, like a hedgehog, like a double-edged razor.” It turned out that this was a T-shirt that Romario had played in just a couple of hours earlier and that my friend wanted to give to one of the coaches in Moscow.

Why did you race more than a hundred kilometers if you could easily buy a T-shirt with the inscription “Romario” in Rio or Sao Paulo: they are sold on every corner? - I asked.

No, they're not like that. Feel it: Romario’s sweat hasn’t dried yet!

Only in the next moment did I realize the stupidity of my question.

Date of Birth: 29.01.1966
Citizenship: Brazil

Country Brazil.

Height 169 cm

Role forward

Clubs He played for the Brazilian clubs Olaria (1984 - 1985),

"Vasco da Gama (1986 - 1987, 2000 - 2001),

"Flamengo" (1998 - 1999),

"Fluminense" (2002 - 2003),

Dutch PSV (1988 - 1993),

Spanish Barcelona (1993/94)

and Valencia (1996/97, 1997/98),

Qatari "Al-Shaad" (2003).

Currently playing again for Fluminense.

He scored 874 goals in official matches during his career.

Titles: World Champion (1994);

America's Cup winner (1989);

Dutch champion (1988/89, 1991/92, 1992/93);

Champion of Spain (1993/94);

Champion of Brazil (2000);

Romario. Unlucky Shorty

A year ago, Romario did not go to Korea and Japan not because he played poorly or was unworthy of the national team. After all, at that time he was the most accurate sniper of the Brazilian Championship as part of Vasco da Gama, and he managed to score four goals in the qualifying tournament. The trouble is that Romario was never a good diplomat and always hit the truth in the face - be it an opponent on the field, a teammate or the coach of the national team. Luiz Felipe Scolari, who stepped onto the captain's bridge, did not immediately like this, and he skillfully got rid of the sharpness not only for scoring chances, but also for the striker's tongue. Although, without exaggeration, whole ranks of demonstrators stood up to defend Romario at that time.

But this was not the first injustice in the national team towards Shorty, as Romario is ironically called in Brazil for his short stature. As the editor-in-chief of the popular Brazilian football magazine Placar, Andre Fontanel, recently told me, Romario deserved a place in the national team at the age of twenty - at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. However, the then Brazilian coach Tele Santana, like Oleg Romantsev in Japan, relied on the old guard and chose not to notice the rising star. According to my interlocutor, this was tantamount to Feola not taking Pele to the 1958 World Cup.

Four years later - in 1990 - Romario was doomed to get to the world championship in Italy. Even though by that time Torsida had lost sight of him: he moved to Holland, where he began regularly scoring for PSV. Romario was forgiven for leaving for Europe and losing to the Russians in the final of the 1988 Olympics in Seoul a year later, when he and Bebeto won Brazil the America's Cup, scoring the decisive goal against the Uruguayans at the Maracanã. But then a new misfortune occurred: shortly before the start of the World Championship, Shorty seriously damaged the ligaments of his ankle joint and, without recovering, was forced to sit out the entire tournament on the bench. Although, according to many Brazilians, if he had been in Muller’s place in the decisive episode of the match with the Argentines, he probably would not have missed, even playing “on one leg.”

After his triumph in the USA, Romario returned to his homeland, where within two years with Flamengo he won two Rio de Janeiro state championships and the Mercosur Cup. Soon, however, Shorty was again overtaken by a black streak, and at the most inopportune moment. Half a month before the start of the championship, Romario suffered an injury to the calf muscle of his right leg, which he eventually almost healed, but was still sent home on the last day of entries for the tournament. Television footage of the super forward crying at a press conference then went around the whole world.

And in 2002, as mentioned above, Romario “did not fit the game plan” of Scolari.

A month ago, Romario returned to Flu. Yes, not alone - he took with him from Al-Shaad his friend and compatriot Serginho...

Last winter, I and the leaders of one of the Russian Premier League clubs had the opportunity to visit Brazil in order to make a valuable acquisition there. One evening at the hotel I was found by a familiar football agent who, as it turned out, had rushed from another city where Fluminense was playing an away match. In his hands he had a small package, which he held - almost according to Mayakovsky - “like a bomb, like a hedgehog, like a double-edged razor.” It turned out that this was a T-shirt that Romario had played in just a couple of hours earlier and that my friend wanted to give to one of the coaches in Moscow.

Why did you race more than a hundred kilometers if you could easily buy a T-shirt with the inscription “Romario” in Rio or Sao Paulo: they are sold on every corner? - I asked.

No, they're not like that. Feel it: Romario’s sweat hasn’t dried yet!

Only in the next moment did I realize the stupidity of my question.

Brazilian Romario is one of the few strikers who managed to score more than a thousand goals in their career. In an interview with World Soccer magazine, the legendary forward recalled his best years and explained why he went into politics.

- Are you happy that you performed at one time and not now?

I think I was born in the right era. I never spent time thinking about what could have been if... I don’t like to indulge in nostalgia. For me, everything turned out as well as possible. Essentially, after Pele, I am the best Brazilian footballer.

- Are modern players paid too much?

From a financial point of view, football has recently been developing at a rapid pace, and as a result, salaries are soaring. But in my time, football players also received good money. We have nothing to complain about. Probably those who performed in the 60s and 70s did not receive enough money.

Nothing can beat the feeling I felt lifting the World Cup trophy over my head in 1994. It still makes my hair stand on end when I think about that moment, which meant so much to a whole generation of players and Brazilian fans. After all, among the spectators there were many young men who had not seen the team win anything. Last time this happened to the team before us in 1970. I also like to remember the victory over Uruguay in 1993, and qualifying for the 1994 World Cup, where I scored two goals after a year away from the national team.

- How much was the football of your era different from today?

The game has definitely gotten worse from a technical standpoint based on the matches I've seen. I don't want to watch anything anymore. IN modern sports put too much emphasis on physical training, and the quality of the game suffers from this. I blame coaches for this, especially those who work with youth, where instead of teaching children correct technique, send them to Gym. They still pay too much attention to defense. I always thought best protection- this is an attack.

- If you could turn back time, what would you change?

I did not make the team for two World Championships (1998 and 2002) and the Olympic Games in 1996 for reasons that still remain a mystery to me. If I could go back, I would try to change something...

- Which players over the past 50 years have impressed you the most?

Pele, Maradona, Ronaldo, Zidane, Van Basten and Michael Laudrup. Many people are very surprised when I mention the latter, but he was the best partner I ever played with. He played equally well with both feet and made brilliant passes. As a striker, I couldn't ask for a better partner.

-Who had the greatest influence on your career?

I grew up watching Reynaldo. He was an outstanding striker who unfortunately never got the chance to shine at national level due to a knee injury. He was excellent at finishing attacks and for a long time remained the record holder for the number of goals scored in the Brazilian championship. But my main idol was my father, Edevir. He was mine best friend and mentor. Dad died a few years ago, I miss him very much.

You recently started political career, winning elections to the lower house of Congress. Why did you decide to go there?

I went into politics to help people, to give them something in return, because for so many years they supported and believed in me. I am especially interested in projects to help children from low-income families and those who require special care (Romario’s own daughter has Down syndrome - author’s note). In politics, everything is simple: people who want to help others go there. Which is what I'm going to do.

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Romario de Souza Faria (Romario)

Position: attack
Nickname: Shorty
Was born: January 29, 1966 in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Citizenship: Brazil
Height: 168 cm

Club career

1985-1988 "Vasco da Gama" (Brazil)
1988-1993 PSV (Holland)
1993-1994 Barcelona (Spain)
1995-1999 Flamengo (Brazil)
1996-1997 Valencia (Spain)
2000-2001 "Vasco da Gama" (Brazil)
2002-2004 Fluminense (Brazil)
2003 "Al-Sadd" (Qatar)
2005-2006 “Vasco da Gama” (Brazil)
2006 "Miami" (USA)
2006 Adelaide United (Australia)
2007 “Vasco da Gama” (Brazil)
2009 “America RJ” (Brazil)

International career

1985 Brazil U20 team (11 matches, 11 goals)
1987-2005 Brazil national team (70 matches, 55 goals)

Coaching career

2007-2008 “Vasco da Gama” (Brazil)

Achievements

World Champion (1994)
America's Cup winner (1989, 1997)
Winner of the Confederations Cup (1997)
Olympic silver medalist (1988)
Winner of the Brazilian Championship (2000)
Champion of Spain (1993, 1994)
Dutch Champion (1989, 1991, 1992)
Dutch Cup winner (1989, 1990)
Four-time champion of the Carioca League (1987, 1988, 1996, 1999)
Winner of the Mercosur Cup (2000)
Dutch Footballer of the Year (1989)
Best Footballer World Championship (1994)
Best Footballer in the World (1994)
South American Footballer of the Year (2000)
Best Footballer in Brazil (2000)

There is every reason to argue that Romario was the best striker in world football in the 1990s. He began his brilliant career in the Brazilian club Vasco da Gama, but at a young age he acquired a very scandalous reputation when he was expelled from the Brazilian national team at the World Youth Championship for violating the rules.

After performing brilliantly at the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988, Romario moved to PSV Eindhoven. There he had serious disagreements with coaches and teammates, which, however, did not stop him from scoring 98 goals in five seasons in the Dutch championship. In the summer of 1993, Barcelona bought Romario for £3 million.

At first, Brazilian coaches had difficulty adapting his strong individualism to team play. But performances in European clubs made his style more harmonious. In 1994, Romario scored five important goals, to which he added another in the penalty shoot-out in the final against Italy.

After the World Cup in the USA, he rushed between two continents, changing clubs, disappeared from the national team for a long time, but managed to return to it at the Tournois de France in 1997. Unfortunately, he was prevented from playing at the World Championships in France by an injury received shortly before the start of the tournament.

After this, Romario moved to his homeland of Brazil, where he played for a long time. In 2005, at the age of 39 (!), he again became the top scorer of the Brazilian Championship. In 2006 he moved to the American club Miami from the first division.

In 2007, the 41-year-old forward moved to the club where he once started his career, Vasco da Gama, and has already scored five goals for new team, thereby becoming even closer to breaking the 1,000-goal mark in his career. On May 21, 2007, Romario scored his 1000th goal.

After the doping scandal, on April 15, 2008, the “shorty” officially announced the end of his sports career (although he was forgiven because the doping came through a remedy for baldness).

Achievements