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Brazil: Romário, football star and blogger

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008 @ 00:07 UTC

by Paula Góes

Countries:: Brazil
Topics:: Software & Tools, Sport
Languages:: Portuguese

“Couch career? Don't count on me, I would rather career as a blogger”, said Brazilian football player Romário. Cocada Boa [pt] announces that he has just launched his blog and speculates on the 10 reasons for the star to start to have done so.

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Eduardo Avila

Do you think he is actually going to write or will it be some publicist?

# 2008-11-12 at 2:47 am

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Paula Góes

Who knows, :) but it seems to be already popular - Three posts only and already 200 comments.

# 2008-11-12 at 19:08 pm

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lova

I will have to put Google translate to the test for this blog :).

# 2008-11-12 at 20:05 pm

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Paula

ah ah! His Portuguese is quite slangy, the type of footballer speech - Good luck Lova, :)

# 2008-11-13 at 10:07 am

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