Romario, the tireless crash: at 58 years old he had his first training session in his long-awaited return to football

“First training! What a moment”the world champion with Canarinha in the 1994 United States Cup wrote on his social networks.

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The former PSV, Barcelona and Valencia forward accompanied his message with a video in which he appears in the training session with the rest of his teammates.

The images show how Romário maintains his technical quality, despite having been away from the playing fields for years, and surprises the other members of the team, especially the goalkeepers.

In practice, he touched the ball, did some continuous running and tried shooting at goal from the penalty spot.

The Brazilian idol intends to play just a few minutes with América in the Carioca second division championshipwhich begins in May.

“As for training, I am very tired. The stretcher will arrive shortly to pick me up (…) I think that, in general, I have been able to run a little,” he said in statements reported by the Ge portal.

In a recent interview with the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, he stated that he will have the “fantastic” opportunity to play some professional matches alongside his son Romarinho, and that, “unfortunately, at this moment he cannot promise goals.”

Romário has been a loyal América fan since childhood, a passion he inherited from his late father, Edevair de Souza Faria, which led him to be elected president of the small Rio club in November 2023.

His last game as a professional was in 2009 precisely as a player for América and at the request of his father, who asked him to reinforce the team that was then competing for access to the first division of the Carioca Championship, the tournament that brings together the best clubs in the state of Rio of Janeiro.

EFE