On October 24, 2007, it was announced that Romário would take charge of his first match as the interim manager of Vasco da Gama against Club América of Mexico in the return leg of their Copa Sudamericana quarter final and he would also participate on the field as a player. Romário, then 41 years of age, replaced Celso Roth as the manager of Vasco da Gama, and also played the match against Club América at the same time. The Vasco da Gama president Eurico Miranda declared to Globo Online that Romário would be in charge of the team for the match, but it is likely to only be temporarily. On February 6, Romario objected to Miranda's intervention in team selection, so was dismissed, but remained contracted to Vasco as a player.
On December 4, 2007, Romário announced he had tested positive for finasteride (aka Propecia) after a match against Palmeiras on October 28. He claims it was in an anti-baldness treatment; however, the drug is banned as it is a masking agent for anabolic steroids.
6/08/2010
ROMARIO FARIA IN WORLD CUP 1994 USA
In 1992, during Romário's successful season at PSV Eindhoven, he was called to the national team for a friendly match against Germany at 12/16/1992 in Porto Alegre - Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Coach Carlos Alberto Parreira left Romário as a reserve, after which he expressed his dissatisfaction, saying he would not have come over from Netherlands if he had known he was not going to play. These declarations caused Parreira to ban Romário from the Brazilian team.
Brazil played the first seven matches of the 1994 World Cup qualification without Romário, and suffered their first loss ever in World Cup qualifying against Bolivia. Journalists and fans called for his return to the team. Brazil had to beat Uruguay at the Maracanã Stadium to finish first of their group. Before the match against Uruguay, Parreira gave up and called Romário. Brazil won 2-0, with Romário scoring both goals, and qualified to the World Cup.
At the World Cup finals, he partnered with Bebeto in the attack to lead his country to a record fourth World Cup title. He scored five goals in the tournament: one in each of the three first round matches, against Russia, Cameroon, and Sweden; one against the Netherlands in quarterfinals; and the game-winning header against Sweden in the semifinals. He also assisted Bebeto in the only goal of the match against the United States in the round of 16. He was voted the most outstanding player of the tournament.
Brazil played the first seven matches of the 1994 World Cup qualification without Romário, and suffered their first loss ever in World Cup qualifying against Bolivia. Journalists and fans called for his return to the team. Brazil had to beat Uruguay at the Maracanã Stadium to finish first of their group. Before the match against Uruguay, Parreira gave up and called Romário. Brazil won 2-0, with Romário scoring both goals, and qualified to the World Cup.
At the World Cup finals, he partnered with Bebeto in the attack to lead his country to a record fourth World Cup title. He scored five goals in the tournament: one in each of the three first round matches, against Russia, Cameroon, and Sweden; one against the Netherlands in quarterfinals; and the game-winning header against Sweden in the semifinals. He also assisted Bebeto in the only goal of the match against the United States in the round of 16. He was voted the most outstanding player of the tournament.
6/07/2010
VAN VERSIE STRIKES AGAIN
Eleven Gunners are heading to the World Cup and Arsenal.com will be tracking their progress every step of the way in our brand new World Cup section.
Between now and the start of the tournament on June 11 we will continue to bring you details of international friendlies involving Arsenal players. The Dutch conceded in the sixth minute when Balazs Dzsudzsak found the net for Hungary. The turnaround got underway in the 22nd minute when Van Persie curled a shot into the bottom corner from the edge of the area.
It was the fourth time he had scored for his country in their last three fixtures and it was another top-class finish from the 26-year-old.
Netherlands took the lead through Wesley Sneijder 11 minutes into the second half before Arjen Robben extended their advantage.
Three goals in eight minutes completed the rout at the Amsterdam ArenA. Mark van Bommel netted the first before Eljero Elia and Robben inflicted further torment on the visitors.
In three pre-World Cup international friendlies The Oranje have scored 12 goals. Their World Cup campaign gets underway on Monday, June 14 when they take on Denmark.
Between now and the start of the tournament on June 11 we will continue to bring you details of international friendlies involving Arsenal players. The Dutch conceded in the sixth minute when Balazs Dzsudzsak found the net for Hungary. The turnaround got underway in the 22nd minute when Van Persie curled a shot into the bottom corner from the edge of the area.
It was the fourth time he had scored for his country in their last three fixtures and it was another top-class finish from the 26-year-old.
Netherlands took the lead through Wesley Sneijder 11 minutes into the second half before Arjen Robben extended their advantage.
Three goals in eight minutes completed the rout at the Amsterdam ArenA. Mark van Bommel netted the first before Eljero Elia and Robben inflicted further torment on the visitors.
In three pre-World Cup international friendlies The Oranje have scored 12 goals. Their World Cup campaign gets underway on Monday, June 14 when they take on Denmark.
MIROSLAV KLOSE IN EURO 2008
On 6 September 2006, Klose scored two away goals against San Marino in a 13–0 Euro 2008 Qualifying win which took his international goal tally to 33, the same amount as his idol Fritz Walter and to joint 7th in the list of all-time goalscorers for Germany.He had a goal drought for a long time with the national team, causing speculation that he may be dropped from the starting line-up. But German coach Joachim Löw has denied this.
Another highlight in Klose's career came on 8 September 2007, as he captained Germany for the first time and celebrated this honour by scoring both of his country's goals in a 2–0 victory over Wales. The next day, one of the headlines in the UEFA official website was “Captain Klose Takes Germany Closer (to qualifying).”
In the main tournament, Klose started the opening group game against Poland and assisted Lukas Podolski's two goals in a 2–0 victory. He played the remaining two group games against Croatia and Austria with no goals. He finally broke his duck during the knockout stages, scoring the second goal for Germany during both quarter final and semi-final against Portugal and Turkey. However he was unable to score during the final against Spain.