RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's Superior Court of Sports Justice (STJD) unanimously declared football champion Romario not guilty of the doping charges in a game of the 2007 Brazilian League.

    Romario cried while speaking at the court in Rio, and the session had to be briefly suspended in order to allow the player to recompose himself. In his testimony, he explained that he has taken a medicine to treat hair loss for 10 years, and that the physicians of the medical department at club Vasco da Gama, for which he played at the time, were aware of that.

    The medicine contained finasteride, which was on list of substances restricted by the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA), because it can hide the use of drugs that enhance the athlete's performance. The result of the test led the STJD disciplinary council to preventively suspend Romario for 120 days.

    "What I like the most in life, besides sex, is playing football," the player joked, after the verdict was announced. "I am happy. I keep being the same guy everyone knows. I did not imagine that could cause so much trouble," he added.

    However, the athlete's future is currently undefined. In the end of 2007, despite his suspension, Romario was announced as Vasco's head coach, but he said last week that he would leave the position because he disagreed with the interference of the club's President Eurico Miranda in the team.

    Miranda attended the court session on Thursday and supported Romario, who thanked Vasco's attorneys for his acquittal, giving signs of a possible reconciliation with the club.

    "That possibility still exists, but I have not talked to Euricoyet. Now I want to play as soon as possible," he stressed.