In a 1991 interview, Korbach racially abused black players Bryan Roy ("een kleine rotneger", "a short damn negro") and Romário ("die koffieboon van PSV", "that coffee bean of PSV").
Romário | Romário Ricardo da Silva | Romário Pereira Sipião | Romario |
Romário, of Flamengo, and Dejan Petković, of Vitória, with 7 goals each, were the competition's topscorers.
Many seen the taunts and jeers acts of Romário against Luiz Felipe Scolari (who indirected critized him) in the semi-finals as decisive for Scolari ignore him for the squad of the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
Some notable Brazilian footballers who have played (or still play) footvolley are: Romário, Edmundo, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho Gaúcho, Júnior, and Edinho (1982 & 1986 National Team).
Plata's most famous goal with the national team, however, might be the one he scored in the dying seconds of the 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup match against Brazil, a header from a corner kick to equalize the score 1–1, a very surprising result considering Brazil were the reigning world champions at the time and fielded stars like Romario, Mauro Silva, Edmundo, Denilson and Taffarel.
Leonardo started at the Nova Safra football school in Rio de Janeiro and was raised in the Jacarezinho neighbourhood, which is also the area where Romário spent his early years.
In 1995, as part of Flamengo's centennial celebrations, Sávio teamed up with the volatile Romário and Edmundo.