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He was born in Jacarezinho ( a
poor neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro ), on January, 29th of 1966.
He had problems to take breath until his adolescence. After
moved to Vila da Penha, 20 kilometers far from Rio de Janeiro,
Romário begun play soccer, his "familiarity" with the
ball...
His father, Edevair, became
glad seeing the ability of the kid to control the ball. Romário
has 9 years old.
In 1979, Vasco da Gama discovered
him, but it thought he was too short and small, and Vasco
decided not to acept him. So, he went to another club called
Olaria. Romário scored 7 goals playing to Olaria in 1979.
After 1980, Romário became
famous playing to Vasco da Gama, PSV ( Holland ) and Barcelona (
Spain ). He was three times champs of Dutch League ( 88/89,
91/92, 92/93 ) and twice the Holland Cup ( 89/90, 90/91 ). In
1991 he was the best soccer player in Europe.
In 1993, trying his back to
Brazil national team, Romário decided change of team and move
to Barcelona ( Johan Cruyff was the coach ) , where he won one
title, the 4th of Barcelona in a row. Romário had problems with
the Brazil's coach Carlos Alberto Parreira and Mario Jorge Lobo
Zagallo. But Brazil ask by Romário. He's playing so well, but
Parreira and Zagallo convocated him only in the last Brazil
qualify game ( to USA'94 ), which Brazil needed to win. Romário
came to Brazil, played against Uruguay, scored 2 goals and
Brazil win ( 2x0 ) and Brazil was in USA World Cup. After this,
Romário went to USA and he won the gold boots, because he was
the best player of USA'94 World Cup. Plus, he helped Brazil to
win it.
After the World Cup, Romário
was bought by Flamengo to play with Bebeto. Romário costed
US$4,5 millons. Romário told to a newspaper from Brazil
"I'm a Flamengo fan since kid". In 1996, playing to
Flamengo, he won the rio de Janeiro league ( only teams from Rio
de Janeiro state ) and he was the top scorer with 26 goals.
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