Romário de Souza Faria is a Brazilian politician. He previously achieved worldwide fame as a professional footballer. Romário starred for Brazil in their 1994 FIFA World Cup triumph. He is the fourth-highest goalscorer for the Brazil national team, behind Pelé, Ronaldo and Neymar.
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Romário de Souza Faria is a Brazilian politician. He previously achieved worldwide fame as a professional footballer. A prolific striker renowned for his clinical finishing, he is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time. Romário starred for Brazil in their 1994 FIFA World Cup triumph, receiving the Golden Ball as player of the tournament. He is the fourth-highest goalscorer for the Brazil national team, behind Pelé, Ronaldo and Neymar. Romario started his political career in 2010, when he was elected deputy for the Brazilian Socialist Party. He was then elected senator in 2014. In 2017, he switched parties for Podemos, another left-wing party.Romario is third on the all-time list of Brazilian league’s top scorers with 155 goals. He was named in the FIFA 100 list of the world’s greatest living players in 2004. He also played for PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands, where he won the Eredivisie in 1989, 1991 and 1992. In 1993, he moved to FC Barcelona and became part of Johan Cruyff’s \”Dream Team\”, forming an exceptional strike partnership with Hristo Stoichkov. He won La Liga in his first season and finished as the top goalscorers with 30 goals in 33 matches. With 55 goals in 70 appearances, Romario is the second-leading goalscorerer in the history of football.
He has also played in Qatar, the United States and Australia. He came fifth in FIFA Player of the Century internet poll in 1999, and was elected to the FIFA World World Cup Dream Team in 2002, and in 2004, he was named the FIFA100 list of world’s great players. During the second half of his career he played for clubs within the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. He won the Brazilian league title with CR Vasco da Gama in 2000 and was a three-time top scorer in the league. During his five seasons at PSV, he scored a total of 165 goals in 167 games, and he was the club’s top scorer three times. In 2004 he was asked to name the greatest player he ever played for. One of the leading players ever coached by JohanCruyff when he asked him to name his best player ever. He said: ‘If he saw that I was a bit more nervous than usual ahead of a big game, he’d come to me and say: ‘Take it easy, coach, I’m going to score and we’re going to win’”. He then went on to say: “What’s incredible is that eight out of the ten times he told me that, he really did scored and we really did win” Romario is now a member of the Brazilian National Football Committee (NNFC) and the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) Romario has also been named in FIFA’s 100 Greatest Players of All Time list.
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