Beren Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Certainly one of, if not the greatest that I've seen. [Wish I'd seen more, tbh!] http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/9540/romariosw8.jpg http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7347993.stm Former Brazil striker Romario has announced his retirement from football at the age of 42. "Officially I'm not playing any more. I've stopped," he said. "My time is up. Everything has been a lot of fun." The 1994 World Player of the Year scored more than 1,000 goals, including 56 in 73 appearances for his country, and also won the 1994 World Cup. He began his career with Brazilian side Vasco da Gama and also played for Barcelona, PSV Eindhoven and Valencia. Review: World Cup USA 1994 "These last 20 years for me have been very positive," said Romario. "To be honest, I'm stopping because I don't see myself in any shape to continue playing. "I haven't played since November, I've put on three or four kilos since then and, at this age, it's difficult to get back to fitness." Regarded as one of the world's finest goal poachers, Romario was renowned for his dislike of training and he added: "I'm happy because I won't have to train again, or travel or sit in team hotels." 606: DEBATE Your thoughts on Romario's glittering career After making his debut for Brazil in 1987 he played in the 1990 and 1994 World Cups, scoring five goals in his country's success in the latter tournament in the USA. As well as four stints with Vasco, including five games as player-coach earlier this year, he also played for Brazilian clubs Flamengo and Fluminese and abroad with Al Sadd in Qatar, Miami FC and Australian side Adelaide United. Last May, Romario scored what he claimed was his 1,000th goal but admitted that many of these were scored in friendlies, youth and testimonial games. His career has not been without controversy and following a game in October, he was banned for 120 days after testing positive for the banned masking agent finasteride. He later had the ban overturned after an appeal during which he claimed to have inadvertently used the substance as part of treatment for hair loss. Romario was sacked by Fluminese four years ago after being jeered off the field, but defied the critics who said he should hang up his boots by rejoining Vasco in 2005. At the age of 39 he bagged 22 goals to finish as the Brazilian championship's leading goalscorer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomas Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 "Officially I'm not playing any more. I've stopped. My time is up. Everything has been a lot of fun." I want that on my tombstone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedro111 Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Aye I always liked him, stems back to USA 94 I think. Class player. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LooneyToonArmy Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Ian Rush was great finisher. I doubt juve would agree Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocker Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Reminds me of Tooj. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 My hero. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross magoo Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 He was a lazy wee shite. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 I've never seen anyone who made finishing look so simple yet so amazing at the same time. It was almost as if he couldn't be bothered, so was like yeah I may as well score. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Quality player, but that 1000 goals rubbish was embarassing - why go on about that when loads of them were in friendlies/schoolboy games etc? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keefaz Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 I'd have been Romario if I'd been Brazilian, like. A lazy twat. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
STM Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Bobby made him the footballer he was Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinho lad Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Class player, was just brilliant. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shearergol Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 Quality player, but that 1000 goals rubbish was embarassing - why go on about that when loads of them were in friendlies/schoolboy games etc? Well Pele did it, so why can't Romario? Agree with you by the way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/7724/36f3124651756.jpg Class. Been after some more Romário footage for ages will be able to make an immense compilation with this. It's got about 900 goals on there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 probably the second best finisher ever Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segun Oluwaniyi Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 probably the second best finisher ever Behind Puskas? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 probably the second best finisher ever Behind? In my lifetime he's the best without a doubt. Never seen anyone make goal scoring look as easy as he made it. Of all time as an out and out goal scorer for me you can only say Gerd Muller rivals him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 You'd better not say Drogba like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_NUFC Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Bebeto was classier, tbf. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest palnese Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Shearer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 He only had a good season with us before he became a lazy twat, but what a season it was! His goals were so beautiful. Had he just been more professional, he would have been considered one of the great legends of the game (you can say that of dozens of Brazilians though!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Second behind shola. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 You'd better not say Drogba like. come on, you know exactly who i mean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 You'd better not say Drogba like. come on, you know exactly who i mean Owen? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilko Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 You'd better not say Drogba like. come on, you know exactly who i mean Martins? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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