The era-defining brilliance of Romário, who redefined the striker role, may have peaked in Barcelona, but it was very much made at PSV
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Blessed with two of the greatest front threes in the history of football, which was better at Barcelona: Stoichkov-Laudrup-Romário or Messi-Neymar-Suárez?
Underdogs Deportivo against Cruyff’s mighty Barcelona: the 1993/94 season remains the nerviest, enduring and memorable title race in LaLiga history
Romário’s divine partnership with Bebeto must be seen to believed, as stats alone could never do justice to the beautiful art they created on the pitch
This feature is part of Duology One was an unfathomably gifted prodigee, a PSV Eindhoven graduate turned timeless Barcelona hero; a Brazilian wonder and undisputed icon to a generation of admirers of…
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