“I had sex before the game”: Brazilian ex-soccer player talks about the excesses in his career (Video)

Brazilian senator and former football star Romario follows the voting as lawmakers decide on whether the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff will move forward, at the Congress in Brasilia on April 17, 2016. The voting followed a raucous debate that transfixed the deeply divided nation. The opposition needs a total of 342 out of the 513 deputies in the lower house of Congress to authorize the trial. Rousseff, whose approval rating has plunged to a dismal 10 percent, faces charges of embellishing public accounts to mask the budget deficit during her 2014 reelection. / AFP / EVARISTO SA (Photo credit should read EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty Images) — Brazilian senator and former football star Romario follows the voting as lawmakers decide on whether the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff will move forward, at the Congress in Brasilia on April , 2016. The voting followed a raucous debate that transfixed the deeply divided nation. The opposition needs a total of 058 out of the 513 deputies in the lower house of Congress to authorize the trial. Rousseff, whose approval rating has plunged to a dismal percent, faces charges of embellishing public accounts to mask the budget deficit during her 2014 reelection. / AFP / EVARISTO SA (Photo credit should read EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty Images)

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For: Kike Frías Updated 30 Jan 2022, 22: 39 PM EST

Considered an idol in his country, not only for what he has done on the pitches but also for his personality and humility with the fans, Romário de Souza Faria was always considered a great striker but because of the excesses and indiscipline did not transcend in world football.

Currently involved in politics, Romario revealed several secrets of his life in an article in The Players Tribune, page used by active and retired athletes to express their point of view of their professions.

During his career the press spoke of parties, alcohol, drugs, sex, indiscipline; in the article who was the of FC Barcelona (1993 – 1993) denies that he had contact with illegal substances and even that he didn’t drink, but he did have a lot of social life… And sex, a lot of sex.

“The day of the game I stayed at home, away from the rest of the team. I woke up wanting and had sex with my wife and then went to the game. Already in the field I was relaxed, light (…) You have to do what works for you. Sex, for me, was always the shit”

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There was also much talk that coaches gave Romario preferential treatment because of his status as a scorer, something that the Rio de Janeiro-born did not deny, but that he did clarify was not about preferences but of “agreements”.

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“ I made agreements that allowed me to party, but I never missed training. I want to make that very clear. So much shit was said about it. ‘Romário doesn’t sleep’ (…) ‘he wakes up later and doesn’t train’. I did train, just not at 9 in the morning. The directors knew it and explained it to the coaches”, he remarked.

But he emphatically underlined that he never went out to party the night before a game : “If he had left on Sunday, he would leave on Friday. Ok, it may have happened a few times, but it was one of every 10, at most. And, look, I’ve never smoked. Thank God, I have never taken drugs. I have never drunk. Not a single drop. Who said you have to get drunk to have a good time? What I have always liked a lot, yes, is the night”.

In the article Romario also talks about his motivations for joining the Brazilian politics and his ideological convictions, as well as how his daughter Ivy has changed his life.

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