How Romário Convinced Carlos Alberto Parreira
7
0
1
| The Offside found this 4/15/2008 on www.worldcupblog.org [flag] |
So Romário is finally, officially, retired at the age of 42. You can definitely argue that his career went on a few seasons - and a few clubs - too many, but you can’t argue with his 1994 World Cup winners medal.
During qualification for the 1994 World Cup, Romário had been dropped by Carlos Alberto Parreira for his bad attitude. But after the Seleção lost to Bolivia and needed a win ...
[link]
Tags:
Soccer
World Cup
Bolivia
Uruguay
Brazil
Comments
Links (1)
Romário Hangs Up His Boots
Published 4/15/2008 by Daryl at The Offside
... from his golden years at at PSV and Barcelona, is enough to remind us what a little genius Romário was. UPDATE: Seems the internet police got to that video pretty quickly. Shame, because it was excellent. But here’s a collection of Romário’s best goals from his time at PSV, which formed a big chunk of the original video. And here are highlights of the great man’s spell at Barcelona, which constituted the other chunk. And one of Romário’s defining performances for Brazil can be seen over at World Cup Blog . 279c ...