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Romário de Souza Faria, known in the sporting world as Romário, was born in the Jacarezinho favela in Rio de Janeiro on January 29, 1966. The favela where Romario was born in 1966 bears the marks of all human deprivation, and Romario would later return to help its inhabitants financially.

It is also the blackest favela in Rio de Janeiro, a quilombola community, as they are known in Brazil, inhabited by people of African descent. Romário was born in a hospital in Tijuca, son of Edévair de Souza Faria, his father and the main promoter of the former Brazilian footballer’s career. Edévair died

At the age of seventy-seven in Rio de Janeiro in 2008 due to a heart attack, and Manuela Ladislau Faria, nicknamed Mrs. Lita, was her mother. He has two brothers, Ronaldo de Souza Faria and Zoraidi Faria, a successful entrepreneur. His father worked in a

Paint factory and his mother helped him in any way she could. Any effort was insufficient to get out of Jacarezinho, a group of favelas where cardboard, wood, tin and, in the best of cases, uralite, clumsily replaced more noble construction materials. It was not a suitable place for young parents raising their newborn.

Towards the end of the season, in May 1994, Romário experienced the drama of the kidnapping of his father, who was kidnapped in Brazil and then released. We will delve deeper into this topic later. Romário, long before becoming a world champion with Brazil, had to

Deal with asthma, poverty and the confidence issues caused by his short stature. He was nicknamed “O BAIXINHO” (the short one). This is an origin story, unknown to many, that forged the character of a “cartoon footballer”, as Jorge Valdano defined it, a phenomenon that we all enjoy. Rio de Janeiro was not aware that

A footballer who would go down in history had just been born. Considered one of the best players in the history of football, he is ranked twenty-six in the special ranking of the best footballers of the 20th century published by World Soccer magazine

. He is also among the small group of players capable of becoming top scorer in three different countries. One day he said: ‘When I was born, God pointed his finger and said: that’s the one’, and added: ‘In the box I was much better than Diego Maradona

And Lionel Messi, that’s my thought and I say it with great humility.’ With 768 goals in official matches, he is the fourth best scorer in history, behind Cristiano Ronaldo, Josef Bican and Lionel Messi according to FIFA. On May 20, 16 years ago, Romario reached 1,000 goals in his personal account. And

Few can boast of having reached 1,000 goals. Pelé scored 1,282 goals, for example, while Arthur Friedenreich scored 1,329. The three Brazilians. Of course , FIFA does not count many of those scores. Romario is credited with 768 official conquests in his career. But, on a personal basis, it reached four figures.

In 2007, Romario announced many times the arrival of the thousandth goal of his career. While the statisticians tried to understand this unimaginable figure, the Brazilian star was anxious for a long time to achieve his goal. And he achieve it.

In a Brazilian league match between Vasco da Gama and Sport Club do Recife, the remembered ‘Baixinho’ saw a great opportunity to reach four figures from the penalty spot and did not waste it. He kicked with the quality that characterizes him and celebrated emotionally with his teammates.

One day he said: ‘If I don’t go out at night I won’t call’. His character was lazy and indolent. Off the field of play, then, he was an inveterate womanizer and on the field of play he was often characterized by insolent and presumptuous attitudes towards his teammates, opponents and coaches.

He lived in the community of Jacarezinho until he was three years old, when he moved to Vila da Penha. There he played on the Estrelinha soccer team, founded by his father, who was also the coach, as a way to encourage him to play sports. It was on the

Asphalt and on the indoor soccer fields where he learned to play. Within a short time he was already prominent among the children, and was already playing among the elderly. At that time, Romário’s innate talent for football was cultivated not only

By his father, but also by his uncles, who did not miss the opportunity to take him to the training sessions that took place in the modest Campo do Alianza in Praça Soldado José dos Anjos . . The children arrived looking dapper in their clean T-shirts and shiny boots. Many

Of them, accompanied by their parents or dragging their little brother, as in the case of Romário and Ronaldo. Everyone was looking to align themselves on the team with the most possibilities. People were anxious, with applause always ready to reward those children between 7

And 13 years old who made an effort to imitate the great figures. They were not simple schoolyard ‘pachanguitas’. The director of the Escola Futebol Vila da Penha directed with the same enthusiasm and dedication as the head of a samba school would . Everyone was amazed by a seven-year-old boy, the shortest

In all of Jacarezinhos, with the number seven on his back, who tried to outwit his much taller and burlier opponents. With surprising skill, he dribbled and stood in front of the goalkeeper. His dream was to become a player for America do Rio, and no one would forget his name.

After being rejected at his first audition with Vasco da Gama, in 1979, a scout took him to an audition at the Pottery Kids Office, Olaria’s Junior team. Romário would leave Estrelinha in 1980 at the age of 14. Romário joined the

Olaria Atlético Clube squad in the 1980-1981 season, where he would coincide with other future professional footballers such as Gonçalves and Aílton. There he matured, learned to fight with defenses and sacrifice himself constantly. A training that, in the long run, would help him become

A footballer desired by half the world. His effort and dedication were rewarded at the end of the season with the call from Vasco de Gama. So, his technicians did realize his value. Romário, in his first and only season at Olaria, was the top scorer and champion

Of all cadet categories in Brazil and forged a great friendship with coach Paulo Ferreira. Ferreira supported Romário at all times, and he was able to thank him to such an extent that, even today, he is one of his best friends in Brazilian football.

That story, which seemed to have a happy ending, ended with the forward accepting Vasco’s first offer without consulting Olaria, and the latter did not approve the transfer. Unfortunately for the young man, everything would end badly because of a kind

Of training right. Olaria thus prevented him from playing for a year as revenge for the ‘betrayal’. A friendly match was arranged between both clubs at the end of the season. Vasco won by 4 goals to 3… with three goals from Romário. That was the definitive test and Augusto,

Vasco da Gama coach, offered the chip to the player, who said yes. Romário wanted to leave, but his former club said no. The consequences were paid by the player, who was sanctioned by the Brazilian federation with a one-year ban (reduced to

8 months) without being able to play in official competitions. Despite not being able to play official matches, until the final part of the season, Romário joined the youth team of the Vasco da Gama Regata Club for the 1981-1982 season.

He debuted in the First Division in 1985 and played for Vasco da Gama until 1988, becoming Rio champion in 1988 and top scorer in the Brazilian championship in 1986 and 1987. His debut in official matches took place on February 6, in Vascaine’s victory by 3-0 over Coritiba,

Valid for the Brazilian Championship. Romario came on in the second half in place of Mario Tilico. His first goal was scored on August 18, in a friendly against Nova Venécia, scoring twice in a 6-0 defeat of the Capixaba team. He began to attract the attention of fans and journalists already in the

1985 Carioca Championship, where he was vice-top scorer. Considered a great revelation, he signed his first professional contract in 1986, the year in which he formed an offensive duo with the established player Roberto Dinamite, in a Basque squad that would be marked by having the two greatest idols

In the club’s recent history, mixing also to other established veterans and young talents. Dinamite would later say: ‘Do you know what it’s like to play alongside 20-year-old Romario? I was just throwing him the ball. Of the three that came on the foot, two were put into the goal.’

Romário, that year, won the 1986 Guanabara Cup, his first title as a professional, scoring twice in the final against Flamengo. Even alongside Dinamite, the boy was the top scorer in the Carioca Championship of the same year, with one more goal than the

Veteran idol. However, the red and black would win the second round and end up defeating Vasco in the final. In 1987 and 1988, Baixinho scored time in Vasco, winning the two-time Carioca championship, both times against Flamengo, returning the loss of the 1986 title. In the decisive match

Of 1988, he scored a historic goal against the archrival, applying a blade to goalkeeper Zé Carlos and almost entering the goal along with the ball. That year, he already declared his ambition to score a thousand goals, like Pelé: ‘I’m 22 years old and I guarantee that

I will continue to impress many people. You can charge me. I’m going to reach the thousandth goal.’ In 1988, he won a new Rio championship and was part of the Brazilian National Team. PSV Eindhoven, recent champion of the UEFA Champions Cup, appears and signs

Two stars of the Olympic Games: he and the Zambian Kalusha Bwalya. Romário moved to PSV for US$6 million, being at that time the most expensive Brazilian signing for a foreign club, surpassing what until then was the largest, which had been Zico, who was sold to Udinese, Italy, for US$4 million

Dollars in 1983. Romario actually had a mega contract; in addition to the salary of $ 1 million dollars per season with administration, $ 1 million dollars worth of gloves, a house with several rooms and all the necessary employees, Philips sound and video equipment,

An Opel GSI car, 10 air tickets to the year between the Netherlands and Brazil, freedom to advertise around the world, advertising contract with Philips do Brasil, English and Dutch course for him and his wife Mónica Santoro, interpreter, courses in local schools and if his pass were sold by more than $3.7 million dollars

To another club, he would be entitled to 15% of everything over that amount. The coach of the Dutch team, Guus Hiddink, personally came to Brazil to participate in the negotiations. He made his debut for the club on October 30, 1988 in the match PSV 3-0 Twente. In his

First season at the club he was top scorer, champion of the Dutch Championship and the Dutch Cup. In the UEFA Champions Cup, they faced a future rival, Real Madrid, for the first time. He scored in both games, but it is the Spanish who advance, in extra time, to the semifinals.

They lose the Interclube World Cup, in which they tie the match against the Uruguayan Nacional fifteen minutes from the end; The match goes to extra time, with PSV suffering a tie in the last minute of extra time. He converts his shot into a penalty shootout,

But the opponent wins 7-6. In the European Super Cup, the title is lost after the team beat the Belgians Mechelen by only 1-0 at home, after losing 0-3 away. In the 1989-90 season, Romário was once again the top scorer in the Eredivisie and

Again won the national Cup and became the first Brazilian called up to a World Cup playing for a Dutch team, however, an ankle injury that It occurred three months before the tournament by PSV itself, practically depriving it of playing in the World Cup.

Without him in the final rounds, PSV lost the league by one point to Ajax, giving some reason to a statement from their main striker: ‘PSV depends on me. ‘Everyone knows that the team cannot play without Romário.’ Baixinho recovers well from the

Injury and, in the 1990-91 season, he is once again top scorer and champion of the Eredivisie, also winning the league in 1991-92, while the 1992-93 season was Romario’s first season without titles in Holland. Still, his goal in the UEFA Champions Cup

, even with PSV falling last in the group stage, impresses the big clubs of Spain, Valencia tries to sign the player at the request of Guus Hiddink, who at that time was the coach of the Spanish club, however, a Dutchman in particular:

Johan Cruijff, who was successfully coaching Barcelona at the time, got the club’s board of directors to sign the top scorer. The Spanish club is persuaded to buy Romario, doing so for $5 million. Romario said goodbye to PSV with a total of 165 goals scored in 167 games, being the third

Top scorer in the club’s history with 128 goals in 145 games considering only official matches. It was at the Eindhoven club where Romario won the most official titles, his fame was so great that he is considered by many to be the best player in the club’s history.

Romario arrives at Barcelona as the highest-paid Brazilian player in the world with a salary of $1.4 million per season. He has had a devastating start at the Catalan club, winning several pre-season trophies by scoring 14 goals in 8 games. He also achieved, to general surprise

, the friendship of the temperamental Hristo Stoichkov, who had not hidden from the press his initial displeasure with the arrival of a fourth foreigner – at that time, the rules only allowed three on the field, and Barcelona already gathered , in addition to the Bulgarian, the Dutch

Ronald Koeman (former PSV colleague) and Michael Laudrup from Denmark, all of whom had already established themselves at the club. In fact, Cruijff had to rotate the four in a rotation that they did not like, but soon Romario stood out and was voted the second best player in the world by FIFA in 1993.

The 1993-94 season was developed with Barcelona in search of of a fourth consecutive championship. The apex is in a Clásico, in which Romario scores three times and provides an assist in a 5-0 against Real Madrid, the first goal would make history, being

Chosen in a survey carried out in 2008 by the newspaper El Mundo Deportivo, as the most beautiful goal in the history of Barcelona, ​​where Romario takes a dribble called by the Spanish Cola de Vaca over the Real Madrid defender. In the two duels against

Atlético de Madrid, Romario also scores three times, in each one: 3-4 in the first round and 5-3 in the second. But the match against Real Madrid is the milestone: from there , Barcelona adds 28 points out of a possible 30 in the remaining matches and manages,

On the last day, to win a title that seemed lost against Deportivo de La Coruña in Bebeto and Mauro Silva. Romario illuminated the title in the Spanish Championship with new goals, receiving the nickname Matador de Goalkeepers, in addition to achieving a record of five hat-tricks in a single edition of

The league in the 1993-94 season, a record that belonged to only two players: Isidro Lángara, in the 1935-36 season for Real Oviedo, and Telmo Zarra in the 1946-47 season for Athletic de Bilbao. Romario’s record was only broken by Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo in the 2010-11 season for Real Madrid, scoring six hat tricks.

He does not achieve the same success in the UEFA Champions League: the team reaches the final, but only scores twice, both in the first round, both in each duel against Spartak Moscow. In the final, the Blaugrana favorites are beaten 0-4 by Milan. In the 1994-95

Champions League season, Romario would have one last gala night at the Camp Nou, in which the duo with Stoichkov scored three times in a 4-0 victory over Manchester United. ‘We couldn’t handle the speed of Stoichkov and Romario. The speed with which they attacked was something totally new,’ said Manchester manager Alex Ferguson.

Wanting to return to Brazil, he forced his way out of Barcelona, ​​even though his transfer was valued at $12 million. At the time, Europe’s top clubs wanted the player, especially Juventus, who had been investigating his signature all year. ‘Romario never really returned after the World Cup. His body was

In Barcelona, ​​but his mind was in Rio,’ said Stoichkov, from whom the Brazilian had come to distance himself. Barcelona had to accept and reduce the value of the contract, even lowering it to $9 million dollars, ended up selling it for $4.5 million, however,

Then Flamengo gave another $2.5 million in installments, closing the purchase at $7 million dollars. Romario’s last victorious memory with the Catalan shirt came on December 21, 1994, when, together with the Bulgarian Stoichkov, he raised the Onze d’Or award for the best player of the season in Europe in 1994 to the Barcelona fans

At the Camp Nou. He ends his adventure at Barcelona with 53 goals in 84 official matches. In early 1995, Flamengo signed the player, in an unusual marketing move, after about three or four months of negotiations with Barcelona, ​​facilitated with the collaboration

Of Romario himself. The agreement was made thanks to a mobilization of companies willing to have, in exchange, the image of the star. In August 2019, in a survey conducted by the GloboEsporte.com website with 100 people, including journalists and former players, this signing was chosen as the largest in the history of Brazilian football.

Romario started well, winning the 1995 Guanabara Cup title by scoring three times in the final against Botafogo. On the eve of the decisive match, against Fluminense, Romário quarrels with coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo. He manages to score in the match but does not finish the championship as

Top scorer, which would be Túlio Maravilha, from Botafogo, and the title remains with Fluminense in one of the most remembered matches of the classic: with the advantage of the tie, Flamengo managed to reach equality after losing 0-2, but the Tricolor achieves victory

In the end, in the famous goal from the belly of Renato Gaúcho (who therefore also obtains the symbolic title of King of Rio). For the 1995 Brazilian Championship, the Flemish board tries to overcome the disappointment, hiring Edmundo to form with Romário and Sávio the ‘best attack in the world’. The friendship

With Edmundo, which even results in a rap between both, presented upon the arrival of the reinforcement, however, does not result in enough goals to take Flamengo to the decisive stages of the Brasileirão and Flamengo finishes in the last positions of the table.

In 1995, he came in 4th place in FIFA’s Best in the World election for his performance, a great achievement for a player who played the entire season in Brazil. In 1996 Flamengo won the Carioca Championship undefeated. Romario, once again, is the

State’s top scorer. Flamengo also wins the South American Gold Cup. Romário does not stay for the 1996 Brazilian Championship; On June 10, 1996 he was involved in a failed transaction that brought back striker Bebeto, and Baixinho ended up loaned to Valencia, who had been interested since 1993 in having the player.

On June 10, 1996, it was announced by Valencia. Romario arrives at Valencia as the highest paid player in the world with a salary of US$3.6 million per season, but he does not last long at Valencia, coincidentally he makes his debut in a friendly against his previous club PSV and

Scores his first goal for Valencia in another friendly against the Cologne team and ends up winning only two tournaments. Shortly after, he fights with coach Luis Aragonés and finds himself isolated in the team, which supports the coach. Despite the interest of Vasco,

São Paulo and even Boca Juniors, where he would play with Diego Maradona and Claudio Caniggia, the player scheduled, even before the end of the year, his return to Flamengo, after an injury at the end of September, but still He occupies 10th place in FIFA’s Best in the

World election for his performance in 1996. On October 26, 1996, he returned to Flamengo on a loan period until July 25 , 1997 and was with Flamengo for two finals, but both were lost in 2-2 draws: the Rio-São Paulo Tournament, against Santos, and the Copa do Brasil, against Grêmio, in which he

Scored again. He also became the second player to score goals against the Big 4 in the same year. When he returns to Valencia from the loan, he has new frustrations: coach Jorge Valdano, who had asked for his return, shows that he tolerates the forward’s free behavior, later declaring that, in fact, the

Star’s contract provided for a clause for this freedom for Romario. Shortly after, Romario is injured. Valdano falls just after the third round of the Spanish Championship, and when Romario recovered, he fell out with the new coach, Claudio Ranieri. Romário ended up being in Marcelinho Carioca’s reserve, and even

With the interest of another Italian club in having him, this time Napoli, the forward preferred to return to Brazil and soon agreed to return to Flamengo again, definitively, on December 18 , 1997. The third stage in Flamengo was not very positive, the In 1998 in the

Carioca Championship, where he was the top scorer for the fourth consecutive time, the title went to Vasco da Gama, Romario’s former and first team. ————————– In the Brasileirão, Flamengo comes to have a good campaign, but loses a series

Of games in the final stretch and is again eliminated from the final stages. The biggest disappointment is in the Copa do Brasil: the team beat Palmeiras in the Parque Antártica by 2 to 1 in the second leg of the quarterfinals, until the last ten minutes

Of the game, when the alviverdes scored precisely the three goals they needed and won the game 4-2. The biggest red-black breath in 1999 is the Mercosur Cup. The team is moving forward, with Romario receiving new artillery. However, before the second leg of

The semi-final against Peñarol in Montevideo, Romário and other Flamengo players celebrate in a nightclub in Caxias do Sul hours after a defeat against Juventude, valid for the Brazilian. Despite having scored Flamengo’s goal in the match (1 to 3), only Baixinho ended up punished, having his contract terminated by decision of president

Edmundo dos Santos Silva. Without him, Flamengo can be champions of Mercosur. Without a club, Romário agreed to return to Vasco da Gama after eleven years. He left Flamengo as the club’s fourth top scorer alongside Pirillo, with 204 goals in 240 games, only behind Henrique Frade, Dida and the disgruntled Zico. After having scored

46 goals that year, he received the first Golden Boot from Placar Magazine. In 1999, he arrived at Vasco being the highest paid player in Brazil with a salary of four hundred and sixty thousand reais per month. With Vasco, he competes in the first FIFA Club World Cup.

Romario scores three times in the club World Cup: twice against Manchester United and once against Necaxa. Vasco ends up losing to Corinthians on penalties and Romário experiences boos. The disappointment is temporarily forgotten in the final of the 2000 Guanabara Cup: Romario,

In his first match against Flamengo since leaving the red-and-black team, mercilessly scores three times in a 5-1 win that gives the Cruzmaltinos the title. The same year Romário attacked his old friend again, after scoring three goals in a game, implicitly declaring that in the “Basque court”, he would be the prince, President

Eurico Miranda would be the king and Edmundo, the fool. The titles lost in the first half are made up for in the second: in December, Vasco wins the Mercosur Cup in a historic match against Palmeiras, in the middle of the Antarctic Park: losing 0-3, the Cariocas reacted and won the match, with Romário

Scoring three times and winning 3-4. He also takes Vasco to the final of the João Havelange Cup, against the surprising São Caetano. He scores a goal in each decision match and manages to lift a Brasileirão for the first time. Romário also wins a new Golden Boot,

After scoring an incredible 73 goals in the year. Another award was awarded by the Uruguayan newspaper El País: Romario, at the age of 34, was officially chosen the best player in America. Due to the brilliant year that Romario was having in 2000, he ended up arousing

Great interest from outside clubs, especially Internazionale de Milan, which offered Vasco R$13.6 million reais and a salary of four million dollars per season. that is, double what Romario earned in Vasco at that time. But Romario initially ruled out his departure due to the fact that the team’s coach, the Italian Marco

Tardelli, did not want the player because he found him undisciplined and at the age of 34 he advanced to play in the Italian Championship. Romário continues at Vasco, being the Brasileirão’s top scorer, receiving a new Silver Ball. With 42 goals in the

2001 season, Romario is to date the only Basque player who has surpassed the 30-goal barrier in a season for Vasco in the 21st century. In the first (and only) time competing in the Copa Libertadores, Romário scores only three times, and Vasco, after finishing the first round with six wins in six

Games, falls in the quarterfinals after losing both games against Boca Juniors (title holders and future two-time champions in a row). It is also the year that Romário fell out with the coach of the Brazilian National Team, Luiz Felipe Scolari.

In the first half of 2002, he still scored 26 goals for Vasco, but got into trouble with fans, responding to insults with obscene gestures. With no weather, especially after not being called up by Scolari for the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the striker left Vasco once again.

Romário reappeared in the second half of 2002 as a Fluminense player, the third great Carioca player to defend, curiously, experiencing again the sensation of being the great signing of a team that was celebrating its centenary. In his debut, in a match against Cruzeiro valid

For the 2002 Brazilian Championship, the forward brought more than 70 thousand people to the Maracaná and lived up to expectations, scoring twice in the 5-1 defeat. Baixinho’s popularity among fans is visible in the reintroduction of the team in Laranjeiras: “Thank you Romario. César, Flávio and company are now

Missing,” said a banner, alluding to other tricolor players in poor shape at the time. Even so, Fluminense manages to qualify with a decisive goal from its biggest star: ten minutes from the end, in the last round of the first phase, and then to the semifinals

Against Corinthians, El Tricolor wins at the Maracaná by 1 to 0 with Romário’s goal, but ends up eliminated after losing in São Paulo by 2 to 3. Romario gets a new Golden Boot. Also in 2002, he became the first player to, twice, score

Goals in the Big Four of São Paulo in the same year. In early 2003, Romario is seduced by Qatar’s offer of US$1.5 million for a three-month contract with Al-Sadd and accepts it. Sportingly, the adventure does not work: Romario is injured, plays only three games, does not score and sees

Al-Sadd win some titles without counting on him who ended up on the bench. He returns to Fluminense motivated by the search for the thousandth goal, approaching 900 goals according to his stories. He has a gala display against Guaraní, at the Maracaná, scoring

Three times, one of them on a bicycle, in the 5-2 victory (the only one in his career). Even at the age of 37, he ends the year with thirteen goals in 21 games, being the tricolor club’s top scorer, saving them from relegation by ensuring a winning streak.

On the return of the Brasileirão, after his team lost 6-0 against Goiás, in Serra Dourada, a fan protested against the bad phase, throwing 6 chickens on the training field. Romário attacked the fan, who reported him, and 6 years after the event he received compensation.

In 2004, Fluminense assembled, with Romário’s endorsement, a renowned team: Ramón, Roger and even the disgruntled Edmundo arrived, causing fans to call the team Gripe-Galáctico alluding to the Real Madrid team that had this nickname at that time . In Carioca; Fluminense

Reaches the final of the Guanabara Cup, but loses the title to Rubro Negro. In the Rio Cup nothing was different, despite the arrival of coach Ricardo Gomes, loved by the fans. In the second leg of the championship they were runners-up again, losing to

Vasco 2-1, Romario scored from a penalty. For the Brazilian, his advantages continue and he finally reaches the nine hundredth goal against Paysandú on April 22. At the beginning of 2005 there is uncertainty about the continuation of his professional career.

Sources at the beginning of the year even affirmed that he would in fact end his career, but the player refutes this and returns to his third stage with Vasco: on January 23 he plays his first game of the year, wearing the Vasco shirt. Romário surprises again, being

Carioca’s vice-top scorer, although the club does not reach the final. For the third time at Vasco, Romário maintains his characteristics: the goals and his imposition on the coaches. Romario also quarreled with Pelé, who had suggested he retire: “The silent

Pelé is a poet. I had to put a shoe in my mouth,” he said. He becomes, at the age of 39, the oldest player to finish the championship as top scorer, which rewards him with his fourth Silver Ball, the third of them as

A goal award. Close to the thousandth goal, Romário is motivated to continue playing, receiving the full support of Vasco: the club officially announces the Romário 1000 Goals Project. It ended up coming out in early 2006; When Miami’s proposal arises, Vasco and Romário

Decide to accept it: in a less strong league, they would be better able to get closer to the thousandth goal, with the moral commitment to return to Vasco to score it. In Miami, Romário plays in United League Soccer, a parallel league, at a technical level, of American soccer, since

The main teams are part of Major League Soccer. There, instead of having jealous colleagues, he lives with a cast full of fans, and receives celebrity treatment from small local football-focused outlets, rather than criticism. He also saved himself some longer trips. Even with Romario becoming the USL’s leading scorer, Miami failed

To reach the finals. With that, he stopped at 985 goals and decides to look for a new team. In October, he comes to present himself as a reinforcement for Tupi, from Juiz de Fora. However, he was prevented from acting by determination of the CBF, since he agreed his contract with the

Minas Gerais club after the deadline for international transfers to Brazilian football. Thus, he ends up going to Adelaide United in Australia to receive 250,128 US dollars for six games: two friendlies, one against Miami itself and another against a combination of South Australian players, and the first four games of the A-League.

His time in Adelaide is not good, with only one goal scored. In January 2007, he returned to Vasco da Gama, reaching his fourth spell with the team. Romário defends the team in Carioca, where he reaches goal 998 in a classic against Flamengo. In the match

Against Flamengo, Vasco had been leading 2-0 and Romario also scored his 999th career goal with ten minutes left. In the 42nd minute of the second half, he has the opportunity to score a goal, but goalkeeper Bruno prevents him with the tip of his right foot.

The historic mark finally arrives on May 20, 2007 at the age of 41, in São Januário, already for the Brasileirão. He, like Pelé, reached the thousandth by taking a penalty. The opponent was Sport. With his last ambition as a player finally achieved, Romário played a couple of times later

, against Fluminense (1-1), Grêmio (in which he scored the 1001 and 1002 in a 4-0 victory) and Botafogo (0-4 ). Nine days after the game against Botafogo, he felt pain in his right ankle. received at the Guanabara Palace by the governor of Rio de

Janeiro, Sérgio Cabral, he received from him the invitation to be the city’s ambassador for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. In August, he received a Golden Foot award in Monte Carlo, Monaco for players over 29 years old, even setting foot on a walk of fame.

In the same month, his statue was inaugurated in São Januário, the day Vasco faced América de Natal, behind the same goals where he had scored his thousandth official goal. Romário ended up taking over as interim player-coach for the next match, the second leg against América-MEX for the Copa Sudamericana (1-0 victory), acting

In the same match as coach and, during the match, as player. On April 14, 2008, at an event held in Rio de Janeiro, organized for the announcement of the release of a DVD about his career, however, Romário officially announced

His retirement from football and said; “I thought, I rethought and I decided to stop. After six months without playing, it was difficult to return to official games. It’s time to say “I have stopped”. (…) Officially I no longer play. Stopped. My phase has passed. “I know it was all a lot of fun.”

On August 12, 2009, Romário surprised everyone by announcing his return to the field to defend América in the Second Division of the Carioca Championship. According to Baixinho, It was to fulfill a dream of his father Edevair, a notorious American fan, who died

In 2008. Romario had already promised his father, years before, that he would finish his career at the club. His professional debut with the Rio de Janeiro club took place on November 25, 2009, in the victory over Artsul, which gave América the title of the

Carioca Championship of the second division and marked the return to the elite in 2010. But that return turned out to be brief. After the first and only official match with the América shirt, Baixinho ended up assuming the role of coach of the club and ended

His career as a victorious player once and for all. Romário began playing for the Brazilian national team from youth level. In 1985 he was champion and top scorer of the South American U-20 Championship, however, he was already facing problems with coaches, something that would mark him: irritated by the lack of focus

Of Romário, who liked to spend time flirting with the women he saw , coach Gílson Nunes does not put him on the list of players who will compete (and win) the U-20 World Championship, in the Soviet Union. The following year, when he made a devastating start to his professional career at

Vasco da Gama, Brazilian fans asked him to be called up by Telê Santana for the 1986 FIFA World Cup, but the coach did not even consider it. It was only in 1987 that Romário finally debuted with the senior national team, getting his

First chance under Carlos Alberto Silva in a friendly against Ireland. He was called up for the 1987 Copa América. As a reserve, he saw Brazil fall in the first phase. The first time Romário wore the national team’s number 11 shirt was in a victory

For Brazil (1-0, his goal) against Australia in Melbourne for the 1988 Australian Bicentennial Tournament . With the same coach, he goes to the Olympic Games in 1988, where he is the great figure. In search of the only soccer title it was missing, Brazil reached the final full of goals

From Romario: two against Nigeria (4-0), the three from the 3-0 victory over Australia in the first round; and, ten minutes from the end of the semi-final, Jürgen Klinsmann’s 1-1 draw against West Germany, won on penalties. After a corner kick taken by Neto, Romario opened the scoring in the

Decisive match, against the Soviet Union, but the rivals saw the match in extra time and won the gold. In 1989, with Brazil already managed by Sebastião Lazaroni, Romário returned to the Maracaná to compete in the Copa América, organized in Brazil. The Brazilians, who have not won

The continental tournament in 40 years, manage to triumph over their rivals. In the final home run that decides the tournament, Brazil defeats Diego Maradona’s Argentina, with Romário assisting Bebeto, scoring a goal and even dribbling past the rival star with a pen.

The decisive match is against Enzo Francescoli’s Uruguay and several players from Nacional, who months before had taken away the interclub world title, played in similar circumstances to the 1950 FIFA World Cup: on the same July 16, in the same Maracaná ,

With Brazil having the advantage of a draw in the last round of a home run. Romário scored the only goal of the match and entered the favor of the Brazilian fans once and for all . Romario was one of Brazil’s trump cards for the 1990 FIFA World Cup.

However, three months before the World Cup, he suffered an injury in the Dutch Championship. The forward was treated with physiotherapist Nilton Petroni, Filé – the same one who would take care of Ronaldo – and recovered in time to go to the World Cup. Still, he only

Entered the game against Scotland and did not score the nets. After the World Cup, he continued on the National Team. However, after questioning coach Carlos Alberto Parreira about being called up for a friendly against Germany on December 16, 1992 and being on the bench (without him,

Brazil won 3-1), he was eventually left out, despite the good phase he had at PSV and, later, at Barcelona. Despite popular outcry, due to the disappointing campaign leading up to the 1994 FIFA World Cup, which even included the first Brazilian defeat in the Qualifiers (0-2 against Bolivia in La Paz), Romário was only

Called up again in the last match, due to the injury of striker Müller. As in the 1989 Copa América, the decisive match was against Uruguay at the Maracaná. If they lose, Brazil would be out of a FIFA World Cup for the first

Time. Romario didn’t give him a chance. In one of the most inspired performances ever seen in the stadium, he scored the two winning goals and secured his place in the World Cup in the United States, promising the fourth championship. In the World Cup, in which the pragmatic style imposed by Parreira marked the

Style of play of the Brazilian National Team, Romário, despite his minimalist finishes, was responsible for Brazil’s most brilliant moments. Before his debut against Russia, he learned of the provocation of the opposing goalkeeper, Dmitriy Kharin, the same one who had won him the gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games. He responded by completing

A corner to open the scoring for the nets and conceding the goal. penalty that would be converted by Raí. In the second match, Brazil would face the sensation of the previous World Cup, Cameroon. They won 3-0 with him scoring the second goal, leaving behind three Cameroonians, Émile

Mbouh, Rigobert Song and Raymond Kalla, before kicking from the edge of the area, his signature move, to beat Jacques Songo’o. In the third, he scored the tying goal against Sweden, passing two players and fooling Thomas Ravelli. It was also decisive in the round of 16, against the determined

American hosts, who were playing on their independence day and had one more player after Leonardo’s expulsion, giving the pass to Bebeto to score the only goal of the match. The quarterfinal clash was against an opponent he knew well after five years at PSV Eindhoven, Netherlands. There it was Baixinho’s turn to receive assistance

From Bebeto and complete the first for Ed de Goeij’s nets, inaugurating a score that would end 3 to 2 for the Brazilians, who, in the semifinals, would face the Swedes again. In a tougher match than in the first phase, he scored ten minutes

From time the goal that put Brazil back in a final: he received a cross from Jorginho and, between two Swedish defenders much taller than him, Roland Nilsson and Patrik Andersson headed with precision, from top to bottom, without giving Ravelli any opportunities.

In the final, against Italy, Romario would have the opportunity for a little personal revenge: five of the opponents were Milan players who months before had beaten Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League final: Paolo Maldini, Franco Baresi, Demetrio Albertini, Roberto Donadoni and Daniele Massaro, as well as reserves Alessandro Costacurta and Mauro

Tassotti. It was even under the brand of Baresi, “the most ruthless of my entire career” that he ended up not producing as much in the final, even making a mistake for the empty goal. Zero to zero in normal time and extra time sent the contest to penalties, where Baixinho

Converted his free kick, in which the ball hit Gianluca Pagluca’s crossbar before going in. With the errors of Barasco himself, Massaro and star Roberto Baggio, Italy would lose the fourth championship to Brazil on penalties. Romário, considered largely responsible for the Brazilian tetra, was the second player to receive the cup, after captain

Dunga. His decisive role in the conquest was once again symbolized upon his return to Brazil, when he appeared in the plane window with the cup in his hand, and he was well remembered by

FIFA at the end of the year, when the entity chose him as the best player in the world. world. Regarding the final itself, he has already declared a supposed tranquility before the match: People keep asking me what I felt at that moment when Baggio looked at me before the final.

I felt… No! Did I look at Baggio? I knew he was an important player from Italy and such, but my knowledge about football is zero. I don’t know the squad of any team, I don’t watch football… I don’t watch television. I hate the soap opera, the newspaper, the sports program.

He did not play for Brazil in 1995 and 1996, when coach Zagallo’s priority was to prove to young players. He returned in 1997, playing and winning that year a Copa América and a FIFA Confederations Cup in which he was also top scorer, forming a

Praised duo with Ronaldo, ten years younger and who followed in his footsteps, in the hearts of Brazilians and having also played at PSV for Barcelona. The two were to be Brazil’s starting attacking duo at the 1998 FIFA World Cup. However, the coaching staff decided to cut him after he suffered a

Calf strain in training, although Romario assured that he would be able to withstand the pain and recover in time to be able to play in the second phase (which he would prove, when he scored a goal for Flamengo in a match against Internacional two days after

Brazil and Denmark, in the quarterfinals). Midfielder Emerson was called up to take his place and was given the number 11 shirt. Although the on-field decision was made by the entire commission, Baixinho was handicapped mainly by coordinator Zico, in charge of breaking the news, and with coach Zagallo. . Romario

“honored” them with caricatures in the bathrooms of his nightclub, Café do Gol, in which the coach was sitting on the toilet and Zico was waiting for him holding the paper, which earned him a lawsuit from both. Only in 2009, he apologized to Zico.

After the World Cup, with Brazil’s defeat in the final against hosts France, the coach chosen was their disgruntled Vanderlei Luxembourg. Baixinho was used by the coach in only one game, after two other coaches with whom he played a game. With Scolari, Romario played in the qualifiers against Uruguay in Montevideo

In a 1-0 loss. The coach showed interest in calling him up for the 2001 Copa América, but Romario asked for an exemption, claiming that he would undergo eye surgery. However , the forward then continued with Vasco da Gama for the friendlies in Mexico, which

Deeply angered Scolari. In 2002 he was not called up by Scolari, in the following years he played some friendlies with the Brazil veterans shirt. It ends with the Brazilian team scoring a total of 85 goals, including 25 goals from

The youth categories and the Olympic team, 5 in festive matches and 55 in official matches. In 2014, Romario exploded against the highest soccer body and against the Brazilian government for acting without respect for the middle and lower classes. One of his

Famous phrases is: «Brazil opened its legs to FIFA. The best footballers of all time for him are: 1 Pelé, 2 Maradona, 3 Romario, himself, 4 Ronaldo, 5 Zidane and 6 Zico. In 2009, he announced his entry into politics, joining the PSB. He ran for the position

Of federal representative for the state of Rio de Janeiro in the 2010 elections, being elected the sixth most voted candidate. He was elected president of the Tourism and Sports Commission of the Chamber on March 6, 2013. Months later, on August 9, he announced

His disaffiliation from the PSB, forcing him to abandon the presidency of the commission. But he returned to the party on September 26, 2013, Romario opted to return to the PSB, also becoming president of the party in the state of Rio de Janeiro. On

October 5, 2014, he was elected senator for Rio de Janeiro with 4,683,963 votes, corresponding to 63.43% of the votes and 38.53% of the number of voters. In April 2015, he gave a controversial interview to Placar magazine in which he revealed for the

First time his desire to one day become mayor of Rio de Janeiro and said an emblematic phrase about Brazilian politics: “I thought politics was a place for thieves and bastards. And I did it well.” On July 27, 2015, Veja magazine published a report stating that it obtained from the

Federal Public Ministry the status of an account in the Swiss bank BSI in which Romario would have about 7.5 million reais. Everything was false. After running and then withdrawing as a candidate for mayor of Rio de Janeiro, in June 2017, Romario left the

Brazilian Socialist Party to join Podemos, formerly the PTN. He will occupy the presidency of the party in Rio de Janeiro. Romario also supported Bolsonaro. Romario embraced the defense of people with disabilities and illnesses in his causes rare events, sports, the promotion of research and science, the supervision of public spending

And popular participation in political decisions. FIGHT FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: The “Shorty” also began his work in defense of policies for people with disabilities. In just six months in office, the deputy managed to insert an article in Law No. 12,470/2011 so that people with disabilities

Who receive Continuous Benefit have their remuneration suspended only if they obtain a job. That way, if they lose their job, the payment is automatically restored. Trainees with disabilities receive benefit remuneration added to the internship aid. He was a pioneer in the fight for people with rare diseases in the National Congress.

Since 2012, Romario has held a seminar on the topic where he brings together doctors, specialists, patients and those responsible for public health policies. The objective is to formulate policies and show society the struggle of people with rare diseases. As a mark of his mandate, the parliamentarian has a strong presence on social networks,

Where he debates complex issues with the population and transparently reports his positions. He underwent a gallbladder removal procedure in 2021. The surgery was performed “without complications” at the Copa Star hospital in Copacabana, in the southern part of the ‘city maravilhosa’, according to a message published on the former attacker’s Instagram account. .

He was also treated for an intestinal infection in 2023, everything has gone well. In 2022, Romario underwent an ancestry test, where he discovered that he has a genetic soup, where he has 30% African ancestry, Costa da Mina (from Nigeria, Ghana, Togo and Benin), East (from Tanzania to South Africa) and West Africa (

Comprising from Cameroon to the Democratic Republic of the Congo), as well as ethnicities such as Mandé (from Mali to Ivory Coast) and Khoisan (from Angola to Botswana), 56% European ancestry (Iberian Peninsula, Italy and Sardinia) , 2% Middle Eastern and 10% American ancestry.

Romario, married three times in his life, has six children, with four different women. With his first wife, Mônica Santoro, he had Moniquinha and Romarinho. Separated from Monica due to his extramarital affairs, Romario later married Danielle Favatto, with whom he had Daniel. Danielle separated from him after discovering that Romario had

Had an extramarital relationship with actress Edna Velho, with whom she had Raphael. His third wife was Isabelle Bittencourt, with whom he had Isabelline and Ivy. He says: “I have never gone out partying the night before a game. If I had left

On Sunday, I went out on Friday. Okay, it may have happened a few times, but it was once in ten, at most. And, look, I have never I’ve smoked. Thank God, I’ve never taken drugs. I’ve never drunk. Not a single drop. Who said you have to get drunk

To have a good time? What I’ve always liked a lot, though, is the night. I mean , of evils, the least.” “My father had five commandments. Don’t fly kites. Don’t drink wine. Don’t take drugs. Don’t let anyone screw you. And, when shaking someone’s hand

, hold it steady and look them in the eye. Have I followed them all? ? Amen.” “Cruyff became one of my greatest friends in football and Dunga helped me a lot and he was right.” Romario one day said: “I have been everything: cocky, conceited, an asshole, a bastard… The list

Is long. I have come from nothing. I had to fight a lot to get to the top, and I ended up externalizing all my emotions. Everything “What I have done, whether good or bad, has been with my heart.”

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