ROMARIO DE SOUZA FARIA.

Romario was born in Rio de JANEIRO.on 29/1/66. He was born in a humble family and like allother Brazilians learned his football on the streetsof Rio de Janeiro.
His first senior club was Vaco Da Gama.While he was here that he was chosen for the natinol team for the 1988 olympics in Seoul.Brazil won the gold medal for football.
The Dutch club P.S.V. Eindhoven was looking for a striker and wanted to buy Marc Degryse from the Belgium club F.C. Brugge. But P.S.V. were told that as soon as they get a replacement for Marc Degryse they could proceed. The coach of P.S.V got worried and asked his teenage son what to do . The son sugested that Brazil had a good striker called Romario and he had scored five goals, it would not be a bad idea to talk with his club . And the two clubs Vasco Da Gama and P.s.v. agreed to terms. and F.C.Brugge signed the Australian striker Frank Farina.
He did well at P.S.V, and was there from 1988 to1993. His move to P.S.V. Eindhoven was remarkable they broke the strang hold of Ajax , and won the Dutch title in the year 1989, 1991 and 1992.His goal scoring skill was noticed by the great Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff who was the coach of Barcelona. Romario joined Barcelona in the year 1993 to 1995. This was Barcelona golden period with Cruyffs dream team. It had such classy players Antonio Zubireta, Ronald Koeman, Nadal, Amor,Jose Bakero,Hristo Stoichkov,Romario , Jesop Guardiola and MichelLadrup. This team won the La Liga , the Copa del and Barcelonas first and only Chamin league cup, they then had to waite till 2006 to win their second cup a win over Arsenal.
Romario scored 30 goals for Barcelona in 33 games.
In the year 1994 R0mario won the F.I.F.A.footballer of the year.
He won the fourth world cup for Brazil in the U.S.A. But missed the 1998 world cup due to a leg injury.
He has played for many clubs such as Valencia, Flamengo,Flumienese,Al Sadd, Miami .F.C,Adelaide united.
On 20/5/2007 Romario claimed to have scored his goal number thousand 1000, but there is contreversy as some goals scored are in freindly matches not counte by F.I.F.A. But F.I.F.A did conrajulate Romario on this . As he is the only second person to score 1000 goals the other being the great Pele. The achivement is all the more admirable as he was fourtytwo years old and for a stiker to run so much is just wonderful . Dino Zoff was fourty years when he won the world cup but he was a goalkeeper and there was no need for him to run.
But sadly on 4/12/2007 romario tested positive for the drug finasenide (aka propecaine) Romario said he took it for baldness as his hair was falling .
He retired in 2008 from all forms of football including player come manager at his first club he played for Vaasco Da Gama. Thegreat striker retired at 42 years.