If anyone still needed a proof of how football blogs is something for people with nothing better to do, he it is. After retiring, Romario, the legendary striker, decided to become a blogger. His site is http://www.blogdoromario.com.br/. In one of the posts he writes:

“Coach career? I’m out. I prefer the career of a blogger. I never liked to wake up early. I was always the last one to arrive to the training sessions. Imagine that as a coach I’d have to be the first one to arrive (I wanna see Maradona).

I’m always on the search for pleasure (listen to me, bro) and one of my pleasures now will be writing”

In other words, as a blogger Romario does not need to wake up early. I wish you could understand Portuguese, but the baixinho surprisingly writes with tone and style. It sounds like him talking. It looks like something far from being a PR thing.

However, as a true blogger, Romario already forgot to update his page. His excuse is “lack of time”. Can anyone tell me what he is doing?

Tonight, his club found itself with a 2 goal draw at home against Estudiantes from Argentina. The score was eliminating Botafogo of the boring Copa Sudamericana. And the ref Carlos Chandía from Chile gave a free-kick to Estudiantes. He also decided to to give a yellow card to Andre Luis, for committing the foul. It was going to be his second, and a red card was just around the corner. This is when Andre exploded, took from Chandía’s hand the card and showed him the yellow. A complete non-sense, but funny. Look at the ref’s expression. The commentators are also shocked. And when we see trouble boy Carlos Alberto trying to get Andre Luis out of the argument is what makes thing it even more bizarre.

The images above just wrap up another year of emotional instability for Botafogo, which started with its vice-president getting into harsh arguments with the players through interviews with the press.

This is Vasco’s defender Odvan after the 4-2 defeat of his club against Figueirense. The only thing he forgot is that his club seats in the last position of the table, and therefore it can’t go down. Another proof that Brazilian players memorize and spit the same words and sentences without thinking about them.

ps: In case you’re wondering. Serra was the Brazilian health minister who who fought big pharmaceutical corporations to get cheaper HIV drugs to the Brazilian public health care system.

Emotional as usual, the forward cried after the match and said that refs keep stealing his club and that Cruzeiro players kept saying humilliating things throughout the match. Don’t cry Edmundo. We promise you won’t be the goalie in the next round.

Highlights (including lots of tears and words you won’t find in a Portuguese-English dictionary):

ps:I’ll try to find a better video