Brazil to face Romania in the International Friendly Game

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011 at 8:41 am , filed under International Friendly Matches by Joel Barker

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The Brazil legendary Ronaldo will be playing this farewell game in an International friendly against Romania on Tuesday at the Pacaembu Stadium in Sao Paolo, bringing an end to his renowned career.

2011 International Friendly football game between Brazil and Romania will kicks off 0:50 on 08 June 2011 at Pacaembu Stadium, Brazil.

Veteran striker Ronaldo will put on the green and yellow shirt for one final game of this football career. Brazil side will have a good preparation test before the Copa America 2011 and a chance to give their fans a victory after the goalless draw over Holland on weekend.

Ronaldo (34-year-old) has scored 62 goals in 97 appearances on the international stage and won two World Cups with Brazil in 1994 and 2002.

He retired from professional football in Feb 2011, saying his sick body had lastly failed him after an 18-year career that give up 352 goals from 517 appearances, though his figure in Brazil squad has given him an almost unique international farewell.

Romania comes after a flight of 20 hours, earned an awful victory with 3-0 score against Bosnia on Friday, but despite the interest created by the great display and the rising hopes to grab the second place in the group.

Roman Pavlyuchenko has scored a hat-trick against Armenia in Saturday game.

Brazil Squad: Victor, Maicon, Lucio, David Luiz, Andre Santos, Lucas, Sandro (Anderson), Elano, Ronaldo, Neymar, Fred (Leandro Damiao)

Romania Squad: Tatarusanu, Ripa, Papp, Gardos, Latovlevici, Torje, Bourceanu, Muresan, Sinmartean (Zicu), Marica and Surdu (Alexe).

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