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Romario scores 999th goal

  • 26-03-2007 12:11pm
    #1
    Juan Pablo
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    After successive hat-tricks in his previous two outings, Romario scored again at the weekend in a 3-0 win over Flamengo and it looks like he'll finally hit the 1000th on Wednesday in the Sao Januario!

    One more to go.....


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  • #2
    herbieflowers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭herbieflowers


    what a legend...58 years old and still knockin' them in!


  • #3
    ninebeanrows
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,780 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    herbieflowers wrote:
    what a legend...58 years old and still knockin' them in!

    :confused:

    Does it not say he's 41?


  • #4
    Savman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,323 ✭✭✭Savman


    Sarcasm...or was it?


  • #5
    Jazzy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭Jazzy


    YES! the lads a legend, my fave player when i was growing up


  • #6
    Chong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,679 ✭✭✭Chong


    1000 goals ?

    Posted last week on the beeb!

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6472327.stm


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  • #7
    Juan Pablo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,383 ✭✭✭Juan Pablo


    Afaik the count has been ratified by FIFA. As Romario said himself on the subject
    'I never said that all those goals were scored in competitive or professional games. I'm also aware that some of the goals were scored in festive games,' the 41-year-old told reporters in Brasilia where his side play a Copa Brasil tie on Wednesday.

    'But I've scored them and I can prove it,' he added.

    'These numbers are not mine, I never had the time to count them myself. The counting was done by professionals. If I'd counted them myself, there would be around 3,000.'

    There are some glaring inaccuracies in that BBC article. Firstly, Pele was not the first to reach 1,000 goals, Arthur Friedenrecih was. And since Pele included goals scored in non-competitive matches if you were to use the same marker when counting Gerd Mullers goals the german would have a total of 1461 goals in 1216 games detailed here. Josef Bican can better this, as he claimed to have scored over 5000 goals, but perhaps unsurprisingly this "record" has gone unconfirmed!

    Also to say that Adeladie Utd or Miami FC would make Accrington Stanley look like Man United is a joke, I couldn't see the likes of Bobby Petta, Zinho or Mario Rodriguez lining out for Accrington!!

    Whatever people choose to believe or not believe, el Baxinho's record in simply incredible. And had Romario chosen to spend his entire career in Brazil, like Pele did, as opposed to plying 9 years of his trade against far superior defences in Europe, we could be now be talking about him scoring far more goals than Peles 1281! Here is hoping he can bag that 1000th goal on Wednesday and retire in the blaze of glory such an illustrious career deserves.


  • #8
    herbieflowers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭herbieflowers


    Weathercheck wrote:
    :confused:

    Does it not say he's 41?


    Yeah yeah sarcasm! Hehe


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