Aguero or Romario?

[jimharri]

this. he was a genius .

So was Romario.

;-)

 

[Vic]

Aguero by a country mile, just a shame he wasn't given the chance to win the champions league final.

He was. Tried to chip it over the keeper to a teammate - should have blasted it. I'll forgive him.

 

[spacecadet]

Far too similar to split..... But I know which one I love most. Seriously though very, very similar style.

 

[schfc6]

Now you're talking.

Vintage performance that was from Barca. Back in the days of 3 foreigners I think.

I find it hard to split Romario and Aguero tbh, trying to be objective.

I think Aguero was playing at the top level for longer club wise but that said Romario also had a more decorated international career so it's how you want to define things. Both great goalscorers and both great players.

I'm fond of sitting on fences...

Good shout with Stoichkov. He and Ruben Sosa had dynamite in their left feet.

Lad I played with as a kid did his coaching badges in the States, he was doing his hours at DC United I think, he said he would be asked to run drills with the first team. He said how humiliating it was to have to ‘coach’ Stoichkov.. Said he was a right character.

 

[moggymoz]

Is this a trick question ???

 

[1961_vintage]

Never saw Romario do it on a cold wet November Wednesday in Stoke

Saw him do it on a cold wet Wednesday in Keerkrade playing for PSV. Outstanding.

 

[kun]

Proven both club and international level. 1000 goals in total.

As true of Romario as it is of Pele.

i.e. not true at all. His career total is 745.

Like Pele, it is very difficult to judge Romario against players who played most of their career in top Europe leagues. Half of the games you play in Brazil are against regional teams, including genuinely amateur teams. That added to the fact there are rarely more than one or 2 competitive teams in the entirety of South America when compared to Europe's best leagues mean it's basically like comparing Lionel Messi and Sunil Chhetri.

If Agüero had played as much of his career in Argentina as Romario did in Brazil, Agüero would have 700+ goals too. Easy.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Romario

Come on, G! You'd have picked Corradi over Romario!

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Saw him do it on a cold wet Wednesday in Keerkrade playing for PSV. Outstanding.

Hey, we FOCs in CBL3 could have done it in Keerkrade any day of any shitty month in the depths of a continental winter!

 

[Davie Burke]

I remember In the first few years, the comparisons of Aguero always used to be against Romario. I am lucky enough to remember Romario.

I actually saw one of Romario's final games in Brazil (Rio) round about 2005. As I recall it was the game where he was supposed to have scored his 1000th professional goal (it later transpired that the goal he scored that day for Vasco de Gama was actually his 999th). Bobby Robson rated him highly. For my part Aguero is well ahead. Analysis of Romario's career is far inferior to a player who spent 10 years in the premier league, won a sackful of trophies, and scored 184 premier league goals.