Ronaldo (il fenomeno)

Worth reminding yourself sometimes just how good this ridiculous bastard was. Combine Messi and C.Ronaldo into one player = Ronaldo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVueW6X7TM0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S84vy_Zz2O0

Ridiculous talent. Just a shame he didn't have a different attitude to food, sex, and alcohol.

Imagine if he'd had Ronnie's professionalism in regards to taking care of his body.

Originally Posted by Grimson

Ridiculous talent. Just a shame he didn't have a different attitude to food, sex, and alcohol.

Imagine if he'd had Ronnie's professionalism in regards to taking care of his body.

yeah, he's still the benchmark for me. That 1996/7 season with Barcelona.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDCjsxrGy5U

Originally Posted by Sparky***

yeah, he's still the benchmark for me. That 1996/7 season with Barcelona.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDCjsxrGy5U

I watch that video a couple of times a month. It's just

Maybe my favourite non-united player ever. Just a great player to watch. Just raw, full of pace, power and footy fun!

Great player!

This guy has one of the biggest "what if" questions about his talent than of any player and still finished as a legend.

Up there as one of my favourite ever players

Reckon he's still the best striker in Brazil.

Utterly £#%&!ing awesome. Better at Madrid when out of shape and at about 70% due to his knees, looking like he was on roller skates, than 98.9% of strikers.

All the £#%&!ing shit@#%&!s in football, and we were robbed of two years of this £#%&!ing awesome bastard

Originally Posted by Grimson

Ridiculous talent. Just a shame he didn't have a different attitude to food, sex, and alcohol.

Imagine if he'd had Ronnie's professionalism in regards to taking care of his body.

It wasn't really food, sex or alcohol that did for him though was it, more that he was cut down by actual injuries during his best years. If his career had been less interrupted he might not have taken so keenly to the, er, distractions. Hard to say.

Jesus he was good though.

Originally Posted by dunk

Reckon he's still the best striker in Brazil.

Utterly £#%&!ing awesome. Better at Madrid when out of shape and at about 70% due to his knees, looking like he was on roller skates, than 98.9% of strikers.

All the £#%&!ing shit@#%&!s in football, and we were robbed of two years of this £#%&!ing awesome bastard

At the time Ronaldo was bossing it for Madrid, the list of strikers in world football looked like this:

Ronaldo
Van Nistelrooy
Thierry Henry
Patrick Kluivert
Andrei Shevchenko
Raul
Hernan Crespo


Now look at the £#%&!ing state of it...who have we got?

Won't ever ever forget this:



Basically went into the barbers and asked for a 'dumb and dumber'. A moment for me when I first realised that some footballers simply have no boundaries. A '£#%&! you' haircut.

Would have repped him/liked his hair at the time if he'd been on a social media platform that would have allowed it.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

At the time Ronaldo was bossing it for Madrid, the list of strikers in world football looked like this:

Ronaldo
Van Nistelrooy
Thierry Henry
Patrick Kluivert
Andrei Shevchenko
Raul
Hernan Crespo


Now look at the £#%&!ing state of it...who have we got?

£#%&! all mate. Seems like being an actual centre forward has become so out of fashion. I blame £#%&!ing Spain.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

At the time Ronaldo was bossing it for Madrid, the list of strikers in world football looked like this:

Ronaldo
Van Nistelrooy
Thierry Henry
Patrick Kluivert
Andrei Shevchenko
Raul
Hernan Crespo


Now look at the £#%&!ing state of it...who have we got?

Never seen a better finisher in one on ones - even better than Marco Van Welbeck.

Won surpisingly little at club level too.

Originally Posted by irk

Won surpisingly little at club level too.

Roberto Baggio is my favourite non-United player and he too won very little club honours. At least Ronaldo has a World Cup medal. Was a sad moment when Baggio missed his penalty

Originally Posted by andyroo

It wasn't really food, sex or alcohol that did for him though was it, more that he was cut down by actual injuries during his best years. If his career had been less interrupted he might not have taken so keenly to the, er, distractions. Hard to say.

Jesus he was good though.

Also a very strong possibility of being mismanaged physically. You look at how quickly he went from a scrawny gangly kid to a beast and rumours of the conditioning schedule and stuff he may have been taking, then the possible damage it did to his knees. Certainly in the "fat Ronaldo" days which was always cruel, he was pumped full of all sorts to assist with pain etc.

Doesn't get anywhere near enough credit for the amount of times he came back when many others would have packed it in. Remember when he did that last cruciate at Milan at about 32 and it simply had to be the end of him. Returned to tear up Brazilian football for a couple of years.

Apparently a top lad too

Originally Posted by andyroo

It wasn't really food, sex or alcohol that did for him though was it, more that he was cut down by actual injuries during his best years.

Injuries (soft tissue injuries at least) and how players take care of themselves are often strongly related.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

At the time Ronaldo was bossing it for Madrid, the list of strikers in world football looked like this:

Ronaldo
Van Nistelrooy
Thierry Henry
Patrick Kluivert
Andrei Shevchenko
Raul
Hernan Crespo

Batistuta still around then, too.

Met him once in Cannes. Big unit. Top red.

Originally Posted by My Name is Keith

Won't ever ever forget this:



Basically went into the barbers and asked for a 'dumb and dumber'. A moment for me when I first realised that some footballers simply have no boundaries. A '£#%&! you' haircut.

Would have repped him/liked his hair at the time if he'd been on a social media platform that would have allowed it.

Didn't he say at the time it was so his young son could differentiate between him and Carlos when watching that tournament on the tv?