Romario is missing with the research of the 1,000th goal

RIO OF JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) - ventilators was tightened in the stage of Maracana in the hope drank of Romario of the 1,000th, but it was not its night Wednesday.

It was not Vasco, either. The da favoured Gama de Vasco lost 2-1 in modest Gama of Brasilia and was eliminated from the cup of Brazil. Romario, which has 999 goals by its account, had hoped to strike 1.000 and to join large Pele. Peel marked 1.281 goals in a career spanning two decades, and marked its 1,000th in Maracana at the age of 29. Romario, to 41, was frustrated during weeks with its research for 1.000.

“Defense was hard during a certain time and was not any different today,” it said in a televised interview. “But I will arrive there, had God. It is football. ” The concern of Renato Romario by Gaucho of trainer for his 1,000th goal affected the team game. The players were nervous and always trying to establish Romario for a projectile. Although there is a certain question about the account of the goal of Romario, much of ventilators of football also accepted it legitimates and waited ardently until it approached the important stage. The place of appointment of the match of Wednesday was changed so that Romario could try to mark at the stage of Maracana, the temple of Brazilian football where Pele marked its 1,000th goal in 1969. Romario, which combined the skilful work of legs with a speed of the sprinter with his peak, shone of the ventilators of Vasco, Flamengo, Dutch club PSV Eindhoven and FC Barcelona of Spain. Grand Johan Dutch Cruyff called a “genius of the sector of goal.

” Always, much of experts as regards football are doubtful about many goals corresponded by Romario. It counts 71 goals which it marked as a teenager and as an amateur, as well as of others in practice of the plays and the semi-official matches counters small clubs. Moreover, its control had to be updated several times because it has at the counted beginning of the goals marked in the matches which never occurred, and in the plays which finished 0-0. The mark is not identified by FIFA, the governing body of the football of the world, which says that it counts goals only in official contests.