He was only 'fat' in the last couple of years of his career in all honesty, he just didn't quite have the pace he used to have when he was at Madrid that he had at PSV, Barca and Inter and that was because his knee exploded twice, he still came back to win the World Cup in 2002 and be Madrid's best player for a good few years
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comment by Robb - Rolf took my childhood away (U20351)
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Ronaldo already made a mockery of Messi and Ronaldos international careers
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Bit hard to judge certain players on International Football.
Probably best not to.
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posted 54 seconds ago
He was only 'fat' in the last couple of years of his career in all honesty
................
Indeed. A right gut bucket.
I kind of covered this subject in my article :
Gliders or Spinning Tops?
Give me a glider over a spinning top any day of the week.
Gliders :
George Best, Liam Brady, Glenn Hoddle, Mesut Ozil, Zinedine Zidane, David Silva
Spinning Tops :
Lionel Messi, Peter Beardsley, Eden Hazard, Raheem Sterling, Christiano Ronaldo
When he was about 34/35 at Corinthians
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comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 46 minutes ago
Zidane
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oh here we go!
a Zit-Zoo fangirl
.................
I can't stand the guy, dipshit.
No you didn't, David Silva is in your list and wouldn't make this one for obvious reasons.
They've all got one thing in common, $hit hairdo's
Ronaldo's fringe
Baggio's rat tail
Nedved's Toyah look
Zidane's monk
Dinho's frizz
Only figo had a decent barnet
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Ronaldo.
He's worthy of the nickname fenomeno in my opinion. He had everything a striker needed to be great and he had it from such a young age. Destroyed La Liga when he was about 20 or 21 and then went to a league where hatchet men were rife (to this day I still remember one of those old school Juventus defenders taking him out at the Delle Alpi and the ref ignoring it at the height of their match-fixing/bribery) and killed it there too. If you go and watch YouTube videos of his skills, you'll find that he was the one doing some of the stuff Ronaldinho started doing 4/5 years later.
If you consider that his injury nightmare started around 98/99 when he was only about 22 or 23, I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that he could have been right up among the greatest ever if he'd managed to maintain or somehow improve on his performances. He was probably only at 75% capacity at Real Madrid and still did great for them.
Even to this day, the final in 98 and watching him burst into tears when he retired still gets to me.
1) Ronaldo
2) Ronaldinho
3) Rivaldo
4) Zidane
5) Figo
I've always thought Rivaldo is one of the most underrated players ever. He seems to have been forgotten about. He was an incredible player. At his best i'd have him above Zidane.
You aren't allowed to rate anyone better than Zizouverrated, the Zidane fan girls will start having kittens.
Rivaldo doesn't get the credit he deserves, probably because of his long legs appeared to make him look ungainly in comparison to the more graceful French thug.
It's more to do with how his career petered out I'd say.
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posted on 7/7/15
He was only 'fat' in the last couple of years of his career in all honesty, he just didn't quite have the pace he used to have when he was at Madrid that he had at PSV, Barca and Inter and that was because his knee exploded twice, he still came back to win the World Cup in 2002 and be Madrid's best player for a good few years
posted on 7/7/15
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posted on 7/7/15
comment by Robb - Rolf took my childhood away (U20351)
posted 29 seconds ago
Ronaldo already made a mockery of Messi and Ronaldos international careers
................
Bit hard to judge certain players on International Football.
Probably best not to.
posted on 7/7/15
comment by Mad Mex (U6687)
posted 54 seconds ago
He was only 'fat' in the last couple of years of his career in all honesty
................
Indeed. A right gut bucket.
posted on 7/7/15
I kind of covered this subject in my article :
Gliders or Spinning Tops?
Give me a glider over a spinning top any day of the week.
Gliders :
George Best, Liam Brady, Glenn Hoddle, Mesut Ozil, Zinedine Zidane, David Silva
Spinning Tops :
Lionel Messi, Peter Beardsley, Eden Hazard, Raheem Sterling, Christiano Ronaldo
posted on 7/7/15
When he was about 34/35 at Corinthians
posted on 7/7/15
comment by #4zA (U19575)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 46 minutes ago
Zidane
----------------------------------------------------------------------
oh here we go!
a Zit-Zoo fangirl
.................
I can't stand the guy, dipshit.
posted on 7/7/15
L'imposteur!
posted on 7/7/15
No you didn't, David Silva is in your list and wouldn't make this one for obvious reasons.
posted on 7/7/15
They've all got one thing in common, $hit hairdo's
Ronaldo's fringe
Baggio's rat tail
Nedved's Toyah look
Zidane's monk
Dinho's frizz
Only figo had a decent barnet
posted on 7/7/15
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posted on 7/7/15
Ronaldo.
He's worthy of the nickname fenomeno in my opinion. He had everything a striker needed to be great and he had it from such a young age. Destroyed La Liga when he was about 20 or 21 and then went to a league where hatchet men were rife (to this day I still remember one of those old school Juventus defenders taking him out at the Delle Alpi and the ref ignoring it at the height of their match-fixing/bribery) and killed it there too. If you go and watch YouTube videos of his skills, you'll find that he was the one doing some of the stuff Ronaldinho started doing 4/5 years later.
If you consider that his injury nightmare started around 98/99 when he was only about 22 or 23, I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that he could have been right up among the greatest ever if he'd managed to maintain or somehow improve on his performances. He was probably only at 75% capacity at Real Madrid and still did great for them.
Even to this day, the final in 98 and watching him burst into tears when he retired still gets to me.
posted on 7/7/15
1) Ronaldo
2) Ronaldinho
3) Rivaldo
4) Zidane
5) Figo
I've always thought Rivaldo is one of the most underrated players ever. He seems to have been forgotten about. He was an incredible player. At his best i'd have him above Zidane.
posted on 7/7/15
You aren't allowed to rate anyone better than Zizouverrated, the Zidane fan girls will start having kittens.
posted on 7/7/15
Rivaldo doesn't get the credit he deserves, probably because of his long legs appeared to make him look ungainly in comparison to the more graceful French thug.
posted on 7/7/15
It's more to do with how his career petered out I'd say.
posted on 7/7/15
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