How Good Was Ruud Van Nistelrooy Really? 

Is Van Nistelrooy a top 10 striker of all time? 🤔 HUGE THANKS TO MY PATRONS: ALARIK AGUILAR (LEGEND) Ivan Lara (SENIOR TEAM) Op Multanen (SENIOR TEAM)

Positioning might be one of the most underrated abilities in football

Well I guess you could say van nistelrooy was a bit ruud to cristiano

I do find it amusing that he was criticized for "goal hanging" when by definition, his job was to in fact be in the penalty area, near the goal, scoring. In effect, being criticized for doing the very thing he was paid to do.

I had a teammate in high school named Patrick who wasn't the fastest or athletic but we called him Pat Scrappy. He always got "trash goals" or "lucky goals." No, he was extremely gifted at knowing exactly where to be to score. High IQ.

I would love to see a video on Aritz Aduriz. He just retired and I feel like a lot of people don't realize how good he was. He may not be a "legend", but he had some pretty great accomplishments.

Do one on the criminally underrated Berbatov!

I’m glad I got his jersey when he played for Untied and Netherlands

Hamburg fan here. You mentioned, that the year in Hamburg wasn't such an important one and of course overall you're right. But there is one match no Hamburg fan will ever forget. It was against Stuttgart, van Nistelrooy was only transferred recently. I was sitting in a bar, watching the multicast stream and suddenly you hear the commentator from Stuttgart shouting "GOOOAL IN STUTTGART". Scene switched to the arena in Stuttgart and you could see van Nistelrooy cheering after he scored the 2:1. The replay showed he needed only one touch. He was playing as a substitute only for 10 minutes until he scored. The scene switches again to some other match, and only 90 seconds later the commentator from Stuttgart again shouting "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL". And everyone in the bar knew immediately van Nistelrooy had scored again. Everyone knew it. Before the TV channel even switched to the match in Stuttgart, you could hear "haha, this guy is the king!" and stuff like this. And well, he again scored with only one touch in the box. What a legend.

Ruud was a baller, anyone who disagrees is a damn fool. I’d love to see a vid on Ryan Giggs, since those very same people are calling him overrated as well 😂

Van Nistelrooy was outstanding. World class player, for sure.

This guy was licensed to score.

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I genuinely feel like is his prime aligned with Robben’s Netherlands would have been a National Team dynasty

Hes one of the best ever at his position. Legend

Ruud Van Nistelrooy is arguably the most underrated player to have ever graced the Premier League Edit: yeah i may have meant most underappreciated my bad

In the late 2000's my local team in the netherlands held a lottery to fund their new artificial pitch. 1st prize was a signed real madrid shirt from non other than Ruud himself. My dad bought some tickets and won it. He framed it and hung it on the wall where it remains to this day. One of the great players of his era and imo underappreciated.

Van Nistelrooy one of the best of all time. Mastered the art of scoring like Pirlo mastered the art of passing

My favourite striker of all time. Ruud was a goal scoring machine wherever he played, fantastic positioning and finishing ability

Ruud was my all time favourite legend in mufc, when I was a boy, he was so exciting to watch and when the chips was down he always came through

A strikers job is to score whether it is from inside or outside of the box. It doesn't really matter

Rudd. My man. He was the best player... I watched matches because of him.

Hi Raymar !! Can you make a video on how good was “Arjen Robben”

Thank you for finally doing a video on Van Nistelrooy. All yall people requesting for more videos on other players, just take a moment to appreciate this incredible legend. Van Nistelrooy is the single greatest finisher and goal poacher of all time, and there's no shame to that. Name me one player who can finish from close range like him- the closest would probably be Cristiano in his later years, and where do you think he gets that from? Most foreign strikers these days can't even dream of those goalscoring numbers, and half of them choke when they arrive. Van Nistelrooy was the gold standard for a typical 30-goals a season striker, and the pathetic 20+ goals a season we get these days is just a far cry from that. RVN was the best at doing his job, and inspired a generation of deadly strikers- Rooney, Ronaldo, RVP. Let's look at the career goalscoring rates of some of the greatest goalscorers in recent memory: RVN: 0.58 Thierry Henry: 0.45 Didier Drogba: 0.43 Eto'o: 0.49 Fernando Torres: 0.34 Aguero: 0.57 (He's only 31 so that number is going down as he gets older) Zlatan: 0.59 (Nobody mess with Zlatan) Outside of the GOATs, and that includes Ronaldo Nazario, there aren't many that can match RVN's goals.

DONT forget him tearing his acl and making a full comeback coming into the prem and all those years ago the surgery was so much more invasive and difficult to comeback from

My god what a player!!!!, This is what i call consistency

Here in madrid we remember him with a lot of respesct and “cariño”. Crucial in those two ligas. As many dutch players, he learned spanish in just two months, which the bernabeu value a lot

Raymar, I was recently watching your 2002 world cup video and it was awesome. I was wondering if you could make more football conspiracy videos. They are really good. Just an idea. 😏😏

Haven’t seen it yet, but I know it’ll be great. Keep up the good work Raymar! 💪

I remember him smashing opponent teams and I will never forget about him.He was a real beast

Thank you for making this video, I am big fan of Van Nistlerooy... I seared for other videos related to van Nistlerooy but non was as detailed or satisfactory as this.. once again really appreciate this video because Van Nistlerooy was one of the reason I started playing soccer...

I remember him always banging goals for Man United when I was young. I've never seen these clips of him when he was young, keep up the good work Raymar 👍🏻 P.s. Can you do a video on Robbie Fowler

What’s crazy is from 1985 they produced Marco van basten which to me is the most talented striker I ever seen, Patrick kluivert, Dennis bergkamp and van nistle Roy. That is just class

I remember watching him at man utd. Without Beckham in the team,he was ordinary. Beckham was top quality at passing.

This channel needs over 1 million subs already. Quality content 👌🏼

Just like messi who learned a lot from ronaldinho, I think cr7 learned a lot for nistelrooy especially the skill of tap ins

The goat is back with a new video

Best finisher I've ever seen. He'd score from chances you expected him to score from and also surprise you by scoring when no one thought it was possible.

I am so happy you make video of him. From my email you know how i like him 🤣 and i was hoping one day he ll move to real madrid and eventually it happened. Thanks a lot Raymar!! Keep up the good work

Van Nistelrooy was amazing inside the box, skill is not the priority for a striker, scoring goals is what counts.

Crazy how chicharito was criticized for poaching goals and getting tap in but look at this legend 🙌

And I'm the one who thought No one else like RVD Good job guys it's wholesome to see that the world is still fine

A true legend! Forever a Madridista!

One of the best classic forwards ever

Good stats, good history. I always thought of Nistelrooy being the riyal Madrid player. Thank you for all the good information. Well done!

I'd love to see how Robert Lewandowski performed in terms of statistics. Cause I think he's an absolute force since his days for Borussia Dortmund and even improved his game for Bayern München.

Keep up the great content mate, always look forward to you’re videos.

one interesting thing about Van Nistelrooy was before a high pass landed near him, he would look around him and scan his area before the ball arrived and he would jump in the air to heada it in the goal... he probaly was the first player to do something like this.

10:30 Ah yes, Real Madrdi, my favourite team

7:09 If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it

Awesome video as always 👍👍

2:48 - the linesman's beard, I wanna see him running with that :D

In my top 3 strikers off all time, if he has the ball in the box, it's a goal...

You should do one on Hernan Crespo, they forgot about as well. He was a beast man.

Weirdly he's my favourite United player ever. I was young when he was scoring for fun and loved it. Was so devastated when he left to Real Madrid. Yes I love Ronaldo too but RVN has a special spot in my heart

Dude, you and your transitions to the sponsor,... 👍😎 flawless! Haha

Please make a "How good was Gerd Muller" video next

Let’s go. One of my favorite players of all time. Totally underrated.

Thanks for the shout out! Great work like always!

This IS the channel for football history. Another great post. As far as style of play - scoreboard, baby. I guess you could say Ruud was like Shaq.

Bro I be waiting long 😭😭😭😭

Really good coming from an Arsenal fan, my favourite goal was when he scored against germany in the euros, kind of a half scissor kick , i have no idea what that was .😂✌

i remember him, he was always right there to put the ball in.

I started watching epl in the early 2000s as a kid Ruud Droga and Henry Then later Torres and Berbatov were amazing to watch made me glued to the epl

Last time was this early I wasnt tested positive

It’s not gonna premier in 20 hrs yet there’s already 50 comments.......

Been watching alot of your content lately Raymar and i must say i find it extremly entertaining! I am looking forward to your next work lad, Maybe Antonio Toto Di Natale?

RVN was a certified legend..his partnership with Beckham was unreal♥️

Awesome video bro!! Editing was on point!! This video was really interesting to watch. Thank you so much!!

I don't get why they were so againts his playing style. Okay he scored a lot of tap-ins, but that means his positioning is amazing. For me, he is the best target man I've ever seen on a pitch, he was a coold blooded monster in front of goal, scoring almost everything he could. His positioning was insane to be honest, just a ball in the box and RVN would finish.

Van Goal is the reason I'm a die hard football fan at the moment. His first ridiculously good cheap goal at RM, and I realized I love this game!

I remember watching this guy and playing with him on the old fifas. Man he was so cold

turns out its alright to be a one trick pony, when that one trick is scoring goals.

He was the best! Still my favorite

22 March 2003. Old Trafford. Man Utd v Fulham. Ruud scored a hatrick, and the second goal was a solo dribble from behind the halfway line. It was one of the goal of the season for the 2002-2003 Premier League season. I wished the video would have highlighted one of his wonder goals. Ruud did score some absolutely fantastic golazos.

great video thanks raymar

4:55 daaaaaaaang my man broke his leg hard af that sounds so bad fr

An Idea for another video: how good was Ruud Gullit actually!!

He never got his due credit. A true Dutch Master !!! #RuudVanNistelrooy.

Good video. I watched him play for MU and while not an MU fan I always felt he was a very underrated and under appreciated player.

Hey raymar can you do a video about how underrated was Garry Neville plz I am requesting you for this the 7th time

Raymar can u make "how good was paul scholes" or "how good was lampard" im not a england fan but ik they are legends at least based om fifa😂

Positioning is the most underrated skill in football. People don't realize how positioning IQ and good movement can make up for lack of skill, and how having skill is useless without being in the right place

Nice video raymar u are the best

Could you do a video on Heung Min Son..

What if Cr7 and Ruud actually got along well with each other?

Superb player for Man Utd. Exactly one the rivalries of the club and performed accordingly.

I was so waiting for another video of raymar

Can u make a vid on how good Frank Lampard was in his career

Everyone think converting a goal is easy until they are in that moment ask Lukaku

Raymar you make a normal football documentary a horror movie darn this is great 👍.

love your work my g

Fun fact: He and Kluivert are born in the same year on the same day. Yet their career paths are quite the opposite

Why did you remove “Why Football is the most toxic sport”?

In Madrid they benched Ronaldo (R9) after several strong performances from Van Nistelrooy. And then moved R9 on to Milan. You're a hell of a striker if you're benching R9 who was still only 30 at the time.

love your videos

9:22 Goddamn that is savage, and not in a good way. 😤😔

Great player but what he said to cr7 was a disgrace

I was thinking about whether you'd make a Ruud video. Thanks man!

This guys videos are amazing.