“Me and my idol on the same land?! Is it a dream that I no longer hope to come true!” It is beyond words! “
Article by Marius Mărgărit – published Wednesday, May 28, 2025 17:49 / Updated Wednesday, May 28, 2025 19:28
The Brazilian Eric de Oliveira, the best foreign scorer in the Romanian championship (66 successes), is looking forward to the gala match at Sports Festival, between Team Romania and Ronaldinho & Friends, on June 14, to fulfill two old dreams.
He will play for the first time for Romania, even if in a demonstrative match, but, most importantly, he will have the opportunity to meet, for the first time, his idol, the famous Ronaldinho.
Eric de Oliveira: “I already started training, I want to impress my idol!”
At 39, Eric is excited as a child: “Today the teams that will be in Cluj have been announced, but I knew for a week that I will be there, in the same place with my model, the one I admire since I know.
I never had the opportunity to talk to him, to meet him. I was face twice, on the occasion of video calls between my friends and him, but I did not dare to talk.
Honestly, I don't even know how to behave when I am around him. As a guest at the same event he participates in or as a fan? I really have no idea, I hope I can temper myself. Already I got to work, I started to run, to restore the physical condition a little, if they still appear in front of people and on the same ground as my idol. “
He laughs when you ask him how to physically: “” I'm fine, I have a belly! But in the rest I am very good. I do not know where information is still good, that I have problems with my foot, that I risk being amputated. Maybe I also give a goal from a free kick, something, to impress Ronaldinho.
My children, Antony and Deric, are also excited, that I grew them up with stories and pictures about him. But I am the same, it is certain that we are just waiting for this meeting, only about Ronaldinho we talk. “
Romanian citizenship was refused
Established in Mediaș, married to the former handball player Cosmina Dancu, with whom he has two boys, Deric (13 years) and Antony (10 years), Eric de Oliveira has already turned 18 since he was in Romania. The Brazilian once tried to obtain Romanian citizenship, in 2016, “but I was refused, on the grounds that I did not meet one of the conditions.
Eric de Oliveira and the boys of
I was never told what it was about. Now I will try to submit the documents again and I hope to succeed. Anyway, I feel half Romanian, my life, my family are here. ”
Deric de oliveira plays rugby photo: acs rugby sighișoara
Deric is already a force of nature, is 1.90 meters at only 13 years old, and plays rugby at Titan Sighișoara.
Antony was following the father's football, with football, being legitimized at ACS Mediaș. Eric is joking when it comes to his little girl: “Antony is more talented than me. And it really looks like Ronaldinho. I think I made him think of him, probably the resemblance.”
Antony (right), Eric's second boy, started football
