There is a great story about Romario and Cruyff. In 94 Romario asked his manager - Cruyff to be released earlier to attend Rio Carnival. Cruyff told him, he can go if he scores 2 goals at the game next day. 20 min in the game and he already had scored 2 and asked for sub. Romario told Cruyff his plane leaves in 1 hour.. :D Amazing player, typical Brazilian :D

@Bielgv1

Ай бұрын

Fun fact, that never happened

@perfilgenerico8717

Ай бұрын

😂 that never gets old

@ElvisBrown

Ай бұрын

@@Bielgv1 That story ACTUALLY happened. kzread.info/dash/bejne/gKqJqpaAkrPYZZc.html This interview talks about it. And it was even better. It was 3 goals. and he was done at the half-time.

@patinho5589

9 күн бұрын

@@ElvisBrownit never happened. It’s a myth. When Cruyff was told about it once in an interview he went along with it. There is no match with stats that match the story.

I'm a 42 year old Bulgarian. Watching the world cup in the USA 30 years ago as a 12 year old kid with us reaching the 1/2 finals and Romario doing his magic is the absolute peak of football I have watched and ever will watch. I just can't imagine a better year than 1994.

@vicenteraira

Ай бұрын

Oh, man! As a Brazilian I simply love Romanian and Bulgarian 94s teams! Kostadinov, Lechkov and of course Stoichkov were amazing!

@a.n.6374

Ай бұрын

@@vicenteraira After we lost to Italy at the 1/2 final, I wanted you to beat them 5:0 :D It was so dramatic with those penalties, but at least you won it at the end.

The thing i remember about Romario was that he never seemed to miss if you give him 3 chances he would score 3 goals.

Look for a video on Cruyff's Barcelona dream team. Romario was there, as was Guardiola. Other greats were Koeman, a defender who scored 250 goals, Stoichcov and Laudrup. All worth an individual video.

@jacobtop

Ай бұрын

Yes, that team was my favorite team of all time and Laudrup my favorite player.

After Romario retired from football, he had a decent run as a Beach Football player. Represented Brazil in it. I remember in the early days of Twitter a clip of him just destroying people half his age went viral. These days, he's the Senator for Rio.

@jucadrp

4 күн бұрын

And playing for America on professional team. kzread.info/dash/bejne/m4Khy5iHpdGsYMY.html

Incredible striker, a genius inside the box. Not a very good politician, though (my opinion). Something interesting about him is that the little guy didn't really like training and talked about it all the time. Maybe that's why he returned to Brazilian football shortly after being voted the best in the world, after winning the 94 World Cup, while playing for Barcelona. I think if he had more professionalism and had been playing at a high level in Europe in the late 90s and early 2000s, his fame would have been even greater. He ended up missing the initial internet boom that helped to further popularize other players who played for major European clubs at that time.

When Romario's period at PSV came to an end he said in an interview in heavily accented Dutch in a tone implying some urgency: "Ik wil weg, ik moet weg" (I want to go, I have to go). I still use that phrase 30 years later whenever I leave a place, gathering or situation of any kind. It never fails to do for me what it did for him. It sows chaos, creates tension, fosters rumors and confuses everyone. The man's an absolute genius and quite a good footballer too.

He was a little after Maradona. Romario signed with PSV Eindhoven in 1990 or 1991 and he was in Barcelona for a year and a half between June 93 and January 95 and he made such a huge impact that he's still remembered. Maradona's time on top was more the 80s and he spent a good part of the 90s suspended for failing drug tests. Romario's peak was in the mid 90s in Barcelona, Flamengo, Valencia and I think Vasco da Gama and especially with the Brazilian national team. They were dominant at the time with guys like Romario, Ronaldo Nazario, Giovanni Silva, Djalminha, Roberto Carlos, Rivaldo, Zé Roberto, Cafú.... playing in the most important leagues in Europe, mostly in the top 4/ top 6 teams of each.

You should see some documentary video aboult Romario, cause he is a mutch interesting figure outside of the pit them inside it. Romario is the quintessence of Brazil footbal, he was extremelly skiled but also extremelly coky, irreverent and loved the "night life" so his entire career was a mix of INCREDIBLE achievements and controversies. Plz react to some video aboult his life not only highlights!!

Speaking of "forgotten world class players", I have to mention my childhood favourite: Michael Laudrup. He's a Dane that played for both Barcelona and later Real Madrid (of course upsetting lots of Barca fans) and was the creative engine that would supply players like Romario with a ton of assists and passes that would tear up the opponents' defense. He was voted the best foreign player to play in Spain in the 25 year period 1974-1999 and was Iniestas idol and a guy like Thierry Henry says that he's addicted to watching hour long passing compilations of this guy. The video of him that I probably like the most is called "Michael Laudrup ● Technique & Elegance ● Best Skills | Goals | Passing" in case you want to give it a go.

@FranciscoGarcia-ze5hg

Ай бұрын

Great player Laudrup. I saw them in Colombia right before the 1986 WC. The whole Danish team was very good. Saw them practice a whole week and then they played a friendly against Paraguay.

@mikaelvirji5807

10 күн бұрын

He was also manager of that really fun Swansea team from the mid 2010s with Michu

Romario might be the best striker inside the box the game has ever seen. His talent to score while inside it was absolute.

Absolute legendary goalscorer. Did it well in to his 40s. He scored 19 goals in 25 matches for Miami FC at 40.

Also Romario came OUT of Retirement like LAST MONTH he's going to play for the clubcthat he's also President of "América Football Club-RJ" look it up

Best finisher of all time, and great feet too, this guy is the forgotten Goat, should really be in the Goat conversation, played pro and scored goals into his late 30's early 40's, dude hated FIFA though and I think the feeling was mutual

There was some footage of Romario playing for Brazil at the 1994 World Cup in the U.S. Such great agility and touch.

I always remember when Romario signed with Vasco at the age of 40 or 41 in 2005, halfway through the Brazilian League, and still finished top scorer. People asked him why he continued playing and so well at his age, and he said it is because the new guys sucked, so he was still better than them even old, lol

That bicycle shot in the clip was the only one Romario scored in his career. He was playing at Fluminense the team I support.

Compared to other great players, Romário has only participated fully in one World Cup, which is indeed unfortunate. I often envision that in an alternative reality, the 2002 Brazilian national team would have showcased the talents of Romário, Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, Kaká, and Djalminha together. Interestingly, Messi and Romário teamed up for a charity match. Their chemistry on the pitch was truly sensational. kzread.info/dash/bejne/gmiN0seaqbjgmbQ.htmlsi=U8LOE2lk4QnH7nyK

Romário is one of the greatest figures in the history of football. In addition to being one of the best in history, he also had a very unique personality. He loved parties, he didn't like training, and he said what he wanted. He had no problem publicly insulting another player or coach, as well as exchanging punches with fans. He's the type of player who would definitely be extremely canceled these days.

For me Romario was one of the best strikers ever. The role model of a "Brazilian striker" always dancing Samba with the ball and the opponent and then kicks the ball back into the net.. Honestly for me he was always way more fun to watch than Messi solely due to Romario´s dancing elegance of his movements with the ball.. And he didn´t play in the Maradona era (well it actually overlapped, Maradona started in the late 70ties and was already World Champion of 84 as Romario started in 85) he played together with back then newcomer Brazilian Ronaldo upfront in the Brazilian Squad of WC94 and was best striker of that WC tournament In Europe he played for PSV Eindhoven (Dutch) and Barcelona.

Romario and Bebeto The dynamic duo My personal favorite players i looked up to from a young age

Romario was a better party man than anything else. Romario was world champion in USA 94 world cup.

If Romario had the same attitude as Messi or CR7, he would have been the best ever! no questions about it, it was too easy for him to score a goal!! One on one was like Messi, they were impossible to cover!

Best player inside the box ever, no question. Even legends of the game like Guardiola and Zidane agree.

Its a myth about the ball. From 1937 the balls had same weight. The speed of it its more of a ilussion with older cameras

@celsus7979

Ай бұрын

The old leather balls did soak up qater, making them heavier. But that's way before the 90s

@celsus7979

Ай бұрын

*water

@davidribeiro1064

Ай бұрын

I'm also going to akshualy that on another point, modern pitches are far better than they used to be and make the game and balls faster. The transition took a while but largely started in the early 90s and was finished by the mid to late 00s.

The ball got lighter and moves more in the air. Which shows you how special these older players were.

something else that is very important, the resolution proportions were different since screens used to be square looking, and now our cameras and screens are wider 16:9 and when we watch older games, the image gets stretched, so ball speed and even player speed look different, passes look like they go out with speed and then quickly stop or slow down, which makes it look heavier, but it's an illusion most of the time, it just looks faster then it actually is when it leaves the players foot. watching stretched old football games on a wide screen , players look like they are sprinters

Romario was my first favorite player, and the "Samba Football" that Brazil played. (Watched videos of WC 94) It wasn't until Barcelona's Tiki-Taka that I found another beautiful playing style that I loved.

When I was a kid in Spain everybody wanted to be Romario. That chip was often attempted in the playground. 😅

Great that you reacted to him. Not the best comp video. They mashed up the highlights so much. Didn’t even show his best chip goal at Barcelona properly. I recommend the two vids by Futbol Nacional.

The ball is not heavier, it''s a combination of the materials that they use not compared to them and the frame rate of the old video's that make it seem slower.

just to add on to the heavy ball point, the pitches today are much flatter because of them being partially artificial, so the ball would bounce around much more back then due to the rougher surface they were playing on, the games a lot faster now becuase passes are more accuarate and I dont think the pitches being completely different being a massive factor is spoken about enough

About the speed of the passing, and generally the playstyle from back in the day, the ball was indeed different but I think the quality of the grass was an even bigger difference.

He played beside Guardiola in Barcelona coached by the great johan Cruyff

This month hbo max will be dropping a documentary series, about him and the 1994 world cup, featuring Baggio, Guardiola, Koeman, Stoichkov, etc. I don't know if it will be available in other countries, but if it does, that's certainlly worth a watch!

Romário is the greatest striker of all time And, no, the ball was not heavier

Fun fact, while Romario and Ronaldo (R9) were sharing the pitch for the brazilian national team, they have won every single match. They haven't lost a single match while playing together. Too bad it was for such a short period of time.

5:35 We do have what we need for 4k+ footage, most of this stuff, is somewhere on a film spool in better quality than HD, the problem is most 00's and before clips are poorly digitised. The Analog to digital capture in the late 90's & 00's was terrible, and in some cases these clips are being further converted by low resolution digital format conversation in the same period. If we could get access to the films, we could have 4k modern digitised versions of this stuff. Even as far back as the 70's we could have great quality footage, and even much better looking footage with clean ups of 50's and 60's footage. Analog Camera's as far back as the 50's were capturing picture quality at a higher level than 4k, its just digital is cheaper to mass produce, and is now at comparable quality (at least in terms of capturing visual and audio and audio play back devices) Modern 4 and 8 K screens are only really catching up with analogs peak in the last 10 to 15 years. The loss in quality is a matter of poor conversion in the 00's and late 90's and not the original footage itself, and therefore if the film exists , or a modern high quality digital conversion exists then we can see some of these clips in 4k, and World cup broadcast films for SURE exist, and likely a lot of top flight national league , and continental club broadcast footage likely is somewhere in a film storage room waiting to be digitised

Rivaldo and Adriano are a must if you're getting into Brazilian players, both of them with a fantastic dribbling skills and super strong shots, specially Adriano on the shots, Rivaldo over Adriano on dribbling, if you put those 2 together and mix'em up you'd have Ronaldo (the real Ronaldo) #9 in Brazilian national team, I'm telling you dude, I've been a fan for Brazil since 1982 (7 at the time) and forever will be.

Romário was a great striker, a genius inside the box. Very controversial too. If you want to learn more, there is a episode from "Beef History" that features him.

Oh boy, Those boys omg that was the Brazil that made it to the books of supreme superior supremacy. I watched them play as a child and still recall the admiration, the respect that the world felt for them

I wish he stayed longer at Barca

Modern balls are not literally lighter but they are effectively lighter. They're designed to have far better energy transference so they will go further and faster if the same force is applied. Also with modern materials they aren't affected by weather conditions the way older ones were.

Romário was that guy who was extremely arrogant. But the had the skills to back it up so everyone liked him, save for some of his team mates, when he played for Vasco with Edmundo, there was a time that Vaco had been awarded with a Penalty And Edmundo was the oficial penalty shooter for the team but on that occasion, Romário wanted to shoot the penalty, and he missed, after the match when asked about the Romário's Penalty, Edmundo said something like "That's Usually my job the 'little prince Romário' wanted to be the one to shoot today, the result speaks for itself". When asked "if Romário is a Little Prince ( in the sense that he is a spoiled brat) who would be the King" Edmundo answered "The Manager", cut to a few matches later when Vasco won a game and Romário was the Mvp of the match, and he's asked about his performance, and he says "i think everyone is happy with the result today, The King, The Prince and Even The Court Clown (Edmundo)"

The ball used to be havier and slower because of materials, in that era it was stitched leather. Now is all synthetic and no stitches that makes it lighter and smother to travel.

Not a heavier ball, but now it is synthetic instead of leather

He is kinda forgotten because he left Europe at his peak, right after he won the World Cup with Brazil in 94. He also missed the 98 World Cup due to injury/fallout with the manager at the time. It was supposed to be a Romario/Ronaldo duo at the front. Can you imagine that? Fun fact: he just came out of retirement to play for the Rio de Janeiro State second division with America and his son.

romario is one of the goats for sure

The grass was also different - you can see it with the naked eye - it was more like "natural," raw earth 'n' grass. Nowadays, it is still real grass, mostly, but carefully cut and cultivated, and the quality of the ground is different as well.

"Inside the box, there was no other like ROMÁRIO"

If communication was in the 50’, 60 70 80’s the way it is today Messi will be a player who plays almost just as good as the super stars of those eras. Football is the most dynamic sport that has produced the most talented athletes.

I do feel like watching some: Just how good was "insert player name" or career overview videos is a somewhat better option when getting to know players when compared to the usual "epic highlights".

every decade of football looks slower than the one that supersedes it. certainly that's my experience, and i started watching football in the 70s. it never fails to amaze me

There are video upscalers, but I'm not sure how much they cost or how effective they are.

romario is one of the greatest brazilians of all time

In Brazil there is a legit debate over who was the best between Ronaldo (R9) or Romario. He is that big here. I feel like he isn't considered that great overseas, perhaps because he spent most of his career playing in Brazil. Also, his playstyle is not as flashy as prime Ronaldo.

Also you should try to see his early years at Vasco da Gama

Old balls were far heavier. Also old football was far more savage and people used metalic cleats. It was so dangerous that players started that feign foul clownery. You should make a video about the evolution of the ball, I think there's videos of it.

he was known for not giving a fuck about anything hahaha didn't like to train but when he was on the pitch he was the best

he was a short striker but very lethal

People dont know how much different is modern equipment than 70 or 80 shoes is way more refined and ball to pitch is nearlly perfect novadays when i was young i in 90 i visit Tenth Anniwersary Stadium in Warsaw Poland it was one of the biggest stadium in Poland and the pitch was terribly uneven, although it looks great on TV so it was much harder to play house have to had better touch and overall tehnique than today just grab old football shoes you will feell the weight difference that why i dont compare plyers from different era it was different game equipment pitch rules even diet training all was different.

legend

Imagine how good he would be if he turned up for training.....

1min 44 was at the USA 94 World Cup

For Dana White talent is two men punching each other faces

He is senator for Rio de Janeiro State today

Heavier balls and the grass. Modern pitches are like pool tables. And not to mention the balls in the 80's. The first modern ball I played with was the famous MIKASA...wet it weight like a ton..no way to play it with your head.

Next: Ronaldo Nazario please

He's a senator now.

React to the world fastest bowler shaib akhtar or react to most dangerous bancer bowels ever

Dama White’s comment is so representative on the Americans that hate football/soccer and it’s such an ignorant take

4:00 wasnt offside

Plz react to "Vinicius Jr 2024 Ballon D'Or level".

You need to ser guardiola talking about him. O baixinho

Please react to balotelle

Dana white need to see Ronaldo Nazario, puré skills, dribbling better than Messi

Should we tell him about George Weah?