Senator of the Republic and President of América-RJ, Romário, 59, decided to get time to perform one more activity: Boleiro interviewer or former Bulk.
Your program, available on YouTube, is called face with the guy. “The guy” is himself, the short, who, without any humility, calls himself. And, let’s face it, for everything you did in football, can be considered “the guy.”
I did not watch the initial program, in which Romário spoke to Neymar, but I saw the second, in which the biggest name in Brazil of the 1994 World Cup in the USA, received in his home the biggest name of the Brazilian achievement in the Cup of 2002 (South and Japan Korea), Ronaldo, nicknamed phenomenon.
In about an hour, Romário asked various questions to the interlocutor about the evolution of his career, the health problem hours before the final of the French Cup-1998, the disappointment of not having acted for Flamengo, the desire to be president of the CBF .
It is also an interview with several moments of relaxation, and what entered me most was when Ronaldo, 48, had to elect the worst players with whom he played, both in clubs and in the national team.
“There is a lot,” he began, after thinking a little, elect two, both steering wheels: Bassen, a Real Madrid colleague in 2005 and 2006, and Amaral, who arrived at the Brazilian team in 1995, convened by Zagallo.
“It was a joke the bassesen. He was a nice guy, good people, but in football he was very bad.
“There were people too,” he continued, in the midst of laughs, referring to former selection companions. “Amaral was hurt with the ball.”
These are two examples, those mentioned by the phenomenon, of athletes of scarce technical quality. Also called “wooden leg”, consecrated expression, or “thick”, a word that I heard a lot as a boy but I hear little today.
It is those footballers that the fan, including you, reader, considers sad to see. They arouse moments of disbelief, anger, nonconformity, sadness, anguish. Players “to bitter”.
For any team they passed hundreds of athletes like that. Not just small, more modest clubs have climbed them. The big ones too.
To stay in Brazil’s biggest fans, the flamenco players had, for example, minimal appreciation for striker Val Baiano, goalkeeper Alex Muralha, midfielder Walter Minhoca and defender Welinton.
Among the Corinthians, they miss goalkeeper Johnny Herrera (Chilean), defenders Zelão and Guinei, midfielder Defederico (Argentine) and striker Finazzi.
Palmeiras fans suffered from the defenders Jeci and Gladstone, the midfielder Jumar and the midfielder Rosembrick. São Paulo, with defenders Lucão, Xandão and Paulão (nicknamed fainting, for passing out in his presentation), the midfielder Carabali (Ecuadorian) and OA striker Pablo.
In fact, all horrible – always, or during the time they were in these teams.
I make, however, a defense of the stick legs.
Without them, football would be much less funny. There would be no that incredible goal lost, there would be no that humiliating dribble. There would not be the cunnons, the pierced, the stumble, the steps on the ball.
The wooden legs, for irritants, are healthy for the sport, the picturesque and the grotesque.
They are rooted in collective memory and thus can be considered, without irony, historical heritage of football.
