The owner of Torque, it's amazing how you can see him dueling against opponents on any side of the field, running with the ball at his feet, imposing his own laws on the scorers. This guy had the greatest field presence I've ever seen, especially after his return in 2002.
@john Cenna Lol. Messi doesn`t even get close to Ronaldo or Rivaldo. Zidane is bellow those two and there were a lot of other better players such as Maradona, Zico, Pelé, a bunch of them were better than these you mentioned.
@john Cenna he beat in one game, moron. Each game has a different story. Zizou was great, but didn`t get even close to these guys. And before them Brazil had a lot of other greater players. Just go watch the brazilian team from 1970 or 1982 and you will see it.
@john Cenna Ronaldinho played with high performance from 1999 to 2007. Then he was just kidding around. Go watch him playing by gremio or PSG and in the brazilian selections from sub15 to the adult team.
@@peoplesgame1 cr7 was also not on r9's level at that age r9 was the best player on the pnaet already by the age of 19 playing for barca and winning a ballon d'or
Man stop this, everyone who’s older than 25 knows who the de lima was Youngsters now don’t even know how difficult it was to shine and get titled as the greatest player of the year in that decade as the number of great players was huge Now there are only about 5 great players out there and they’ve been competing alone and they don’t even show in every game 😪 Soccer has lost its magic
@@apersiannihilist5632 Yes so true, I feel so lucky to be able to watch R9 generation to play in WC live in TV. R9 was the most complete player with completely excellent team in club and national team.
Extremely sad that he got a really bad injury when he was 23 and that brought down all his stats but he was still incredible. Think if he would've never gotten that injury. He would be another GOAT alongside Messi
@@MN_2003 About what? There were already a lot of joga bonito type of players before he arrived on the scene. The problem was back in the 80s and early 90s television football broadcasting wasn't as spread as it became later on. There's a ton of flairy footballers from South America that were doing some crazy stuff but didn't get the recognition Ronaldo did
On top of that he had this Haaland type of calmness in the finishing phase as well. Almost always having more than one good plans in his head for what to do. His injuries were a huge loss for football. He was a joy to watch at his peak.
@@disagol bro if I didn't play soccer I even doesn't spend to see these videos. I start play at 11 years old and never stop, until this year, I'm 30 years. Playin soccer during 19 years non stop. I never get a red card. So sometimes we need to thinking a bit about we writing here. Take care and enjoy Ronaldo!
@@David.soares No le hagas caso a un fan de Maradona que tuvo que necesitar una mano para ganar un mundial. La ArgenFIFA siempre con ayudas. Ni juntando a maradona y messi, igualaran a Ronaldo y Pelé. JAMÁS y todavía con sus ayudas.
@@villaoropeza7102 Children of 2000s, all they know is Messi and CR7 due to lack of competition and football fraud by football league leaders wanting to make more money from promoting only Messi and CR7.
What’s scary is that we never saw this man’s true prime. He peaked in his early 20s, but injury held him back since. I wonder what he would have achieved if he stayed injury free until late 20s.
Or early 30s. Messi and CR7 would be competing to see if they could surpass R9’s greatness. Keep in mind that this man walked away from the game with two World Cups.
I grow up watching R9 playing and yes R9 is much much faster with the ball at his feet. Off ball Mbappe maybe faster but R9 is just ridiculously fast when he had the ball.
@@MrConrad1993 Robben mostly punted the ball though. Ronaldo was able to slice through defense while keeping the ball close to his feet, like his hattrick vs Valencia.
Imagine a guy who's almost as fast as mbappe(probably as much), very strong and also an extremely technical finisher and dribbler. The media is trying to sell us the talents of this generation but guys like Ronaldo make the young stars we have today look like amateurs
kkkkkkkkkkklkk como é meu amigo kkkk,quase tão rápido kkkkk,o mbappe não chega nem perto do arranque e da explosão que tem o fenômeno kkkk, mbappe só tem passadas largas arranque não tem irmão
@@aguaawa football is a team game... brazil had good team and with that ronaldo won the world cup... Messi is a great player too, ronaldo himself says that... but argentina team just isnt that great. If not do you consider Klose better that Ronaldo?? I mean he broke the record of Ronaldo's most scored goals in world cup.
The most quick player ever with the ball on his feet. The amazing thing is the incredible change of foot when he runs, that is incredible, he passes from strong foot to weak foot at that speed... Only one word "Fenomeno".
@@ciccio89sium never denied that he is fast with it It's just that R9 is faster with the ball on his feet still, he did things no one else did in high speed
What I loved the most was his runs straight at defender. He didn't look for empty spaces, he was coming at you like a train at a full speed. When I watch compilations now it makes me laugh seeing defenders who don't know wtf is going on, never saw anybody who would play like this and probably never will. He is like a Plato idea of 9.
The craziest thing about him is that he wasn't insanely fast but he was physically strong as fuck as well, so he could escape from tackles and traffic quite easily with acceleration and physical defense. He wasn't too tall and wasn't too short, and his very stocky. Nowadays you'd have someone very strong but is very clumsy, and someone very fast but falls like leaves at the lightest touch. Not this Ronaldo. Ronaldo was fast, strong, agile and controls the ball like its his third limb.
@@kronikevaporation6007 Might as well add Stamina because performing that well without your body (cardiovascular system) giving in is impressive as hell.
Iv been saying this for years. They would get absolutely destroyed in that era. Like those numbers they got now, you better cut that in half then in a quarter because that would be a myth in 90s era
1:06 That's Philip Lahm who was one of the fastest full backs and even though Ronaldo gained weight look at the speed and Lahm is struggling to catch him. Now imagine how fast he actually was at Barcelona? Scary ain't it!
Can you even imagine the amount of punishment his knees took to maintain that explosive speed? It's no wonder he had so many injuries. People only talk about his injuries and his weight(which was due to hypothyroidism) and forget that he was an absolute beast with the ball. I am so glad to have been able to watch him live in my lifetime
@@ferosekhan2389 Henry has a higher top speed because he is taller and manages to cover more ground But R9 was faster than Henry on the ball and has better acceleration (in his prime)
you know, in this era, all player was sprint so fast, because speed was the weapon. But among the fastest player there is Ronaldo Fenomeno who insanely fast above most of the fastest. He was so difficult to handle even for the best defender like he was in Inter Milan
Its his control with the ball at such speed that make him special iv never seen anybody with such control at full speed, maybe maradona but he had low gravity like messi, ronaldo ran full stride dribbling its near immposible to do. Phenon he was!
Both Maradonna and Messi has indeed out of this world control of the ball at full speed... But so has R9 and in my opinion he is also faster (acceleration, top speed, dribbling... faster everywhere).
@@gouroubignole They had great control of the ball and were exceptional dribblers but this guy was doing tricks and beating defenders at full speed I’ve never seen that by any player , he could do an elastico while running. Prob what caused his terrible injuries, I’ve never seen any player dribble defenders at such speed using skill moves and step overs he truly was one of a kind , hence the the name the phenomenon .
@@michaelmullins8866 Absolutely. Dribble AND skills/tricks, at an unbelievable speed, He is the only one I've ever seen to do so greatly (You're right and even Ronaldihno wo is arguyably the best ever at tricks with R9, never did elastico while running). Some think that it could have partially explain his injuries, that could be true... Anyway R9 at is best was above anybody to me.
Even when he became overweight, his natural born explosive speed never changed but his injuries really got to him.For me, this is the God of football. Thank you Ronaldo fenomeno for my childhood.
R9 is my favourite...but pls don’t use Capital ‘G’ for a man. You can use small letter ‘g’. You can call him ‘god of football’. Capital ‘G’ is for God our creator only 🙏🙏
Those 2 goals against Valencia🔥 even when he was supposed to be "fat" he was still as fast as f***k, the best striker there has ever been, true innovator
I still remember how he outpaced Cannavaro and Thuram in 2005 UCL game. They weren't young anymore, 32&33 yo, but considering R9 was fat and at the end of his career it was still impressive.
@@rick1901 you are correct and you are not the only one. Messi and CR7 are the best of their generation /era not the best of all time as kids of today say! Also, football in Messi /CR7 has become easy. I see Messi /CR7 era as the weakest one. Other generation/era, the competition of the best FiFa player was 7 or 8 players going for the award. Today, it is only Messi and CR7. there is no competition!
@@gilfernando7623 Look at Ronaldo's era. He had to fight against: Ronaldinho, Zidane, Bergkamp, Totti, Del Piero, Henry, Romario, Nedved, Nesta, Batistuta, Figo, Baggio, Stam, Cantona, Nesta, Maldini... Today Messi and CR7's technician rivals are just Xavi, Iniesta and Ibrahimovic. The first two were Messi's teammates and already old/retired, and Ibra have behavior issues and always stuck with inferior teams that made him not viable for D'or.
At the age of 21: Ronaldo scored 152 goals in 163 matches Cristiano scored 42 goals in 184 matches Ronaldo already won a Ballon d'Or at 21 yrs 4 months. 1 Copa America and 1 World Cup (even though he made no appearance in that tournament.) This quick display of stats speaks volumes (its just a supplement to the fact that he is the best, not a primary comparison method.)
I remember a game vs Valencia when he was playing for Barca, when he scored the hatrick, he was fouled or tackled first..down to the ground, but then get back up and dribble past 4 defenders(without losing the fcking ball)...the last defender tried to bodied him but he didn't fall down....and scored. goddem.
And they mention Cristiano and Messi 😂. Ronaldo won basically EVERYTHING apart from champions league before 21 in the hardest era. That there alone is scary
He was fast, strong and dominant. Probably one of the greatest player ever. Like Mario Lemieux in hockey, injuries stoped them short. What a great team Brasil had in 2002.
Brazil hardly made it to the 2002 World Cup Finals (third place in South America) despite having Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, Roberto carlos, etc... RONALDO DID NOT PLAY QUALIFICATIONS DUE TO INJURY. IN 2002 WORLD CUP HE ONLY PLAYED 60% OF ALL GAMES AND MANAGED TO BE THE TOP SCORER (8 GOALS) AND WON THE CUP.
Talk about pace, In his "peak" he was absolutely fast, faster than anybody else on the pitch. Even with bad knees (2002 onwards) and health conditions that made him losing his rapid pace and forced him to change his style of play by relying more on his clinical finishing, he was still fast. To me, there's only one Ronaldo and he came from Brazil.
Career and whole numbers of others does not count for me, I only know that the best player my eyes watched is Ronaldo Nazario Da Lima. Power, Definition, And Magic at March III speed no one else can do better. If a flip-flap takes 2 metres for another genius in slow mo, for Ronaldo it just takes 30 centimeres, at 300 km/h.
Is it too difficult to understand that it is one thing to have a better career and another thing to be a more talented player. R9 may not have the career of Cristiano and other, but at his peak he was definitely much better
He would have won twice as much trophies as he did, scored three time as much goals, and won 8 to 9 more Ballon d'Ors. That's given that he would have enjoyed an injury-free career and exhibited great athletic longevity till he reached 37 or 38 for example.
He just wasn't - there are camera frames missing. Mad skills, ball control, deception, dexterity and his frame/ strength are what a young R9 was known for. He was the best dribbler i've ever seen from the old school.
The fitness trainer he had while at Inter said his 60m sprints were 6.2 - 6.5 seconds (36 km/h) At Madrid his 60 sec sprints were around 7.5 - 7.8 (31km/h)
I totally understand how people would think the numbers are fake or lies. However from my memories of his entire career to the many videos of RU-vid.. NEVER EVER have I seen the acceleration that R9 had in particular when he first went to Barca. Kaka also said that when the Brazilian team trained for the World Cup none of them could beat Ronaldo in sprints.
@@leolare I think Messi is better than the others, simply because Messi is so good, in so much. R9 and Maradona are all time dribblers Ronaldinho, R9, Maradona and Neymar are all time technicians Laudrup, Xavi, De Bruyne (yes he is recent but his skill is undeniable) are all time creators Pirlo, Xavi, Scholes are all time passers Juninho, Beckham, Mihajlovic are all time dead ball specialists CR7, Müller, Pele, Puskas, Romario, these were all time goalscorers. I say Messi simply because he is all time in everything. Take the last decade for example. People see Messi and Ronaldo (CR7) as goalscorers, so it's no surprise they were the most prolific in 2010-2020. However, people don't also realise that Messi created more than anyone else, assisted more than anyone else, scored freekicks more than anyone else, passed better than *almost* everyone else (through balls, short-quick, long balls, all of it). The argument for Messi is that, he is simply amongst the best of all time in so many categories. All these other major players mentioned excelled in one, maybe even two or three things, but Messi is so proficient, and so prolific in almost all aspects of the offensive game. That's the difference. R9 could pass well, but not 'amongst the best in football history', well. Laudrup could score, but not at a high level level. Pele and Romario had great control and technique, but not the highest level, i.e. technique on the ball like R10, Messi or Neymar. Messi is the odd one out, because I have never seen this combination of being amongst the best in football history, in: Goals scored Finishing ability (not always directly correlated to number of goals scored) Passing ability Assists Vision - through balls etc. Creativity on the ball - ability improvise and create a goalscoring chance out of seemingly nothing Strike Technique - linked to finishing and passing ability, this is just the way in which the player strikes the ball. For example, amongst active players KDB and Messi have the best strike technqiue. Control - both controlling a ball to a dead spot, and controlling it on the move, and close control as part of the next category, which is Dribbling - not much needs to be said here for Messi, we all know. Tactical awareness - the impact a player has without necessarily having the ball at his feet. Off ball movement is up there with CR7, although people tend to miss it. All I'm saying here, to wrap it up is, Messi is amongst the best passers, playmakers, goalscorers, dribblers, technicians and finally dead ball specialists of all time. That's why I think he is the best. I have never seen that combination. R9 had the unusual combinations of being strong/stocky yet very skilled, and also being extremely fast yet controlled on the ball at the same time. But at the output end of it, this didn't equal absurd ability in every aspect of the game like Messi. R9 was rapid, could score at will, extremely skilled on the ball, but only passed well, created well - that is, he did it well, no doubt, but not " _amongst the best passers and creators in football history_ " well. That's what I mean. What do you think?
@@christianindividual4550 Ronaldo is fullpackage, Speed, dribbling skills, Power, Pace, Strenght, Finishing, Ronaldo on his peak, Barça and Internazionale, is probably the best player ever.
This guy is the Greatest of All time look at how deep he drop to create play. If he play as pure no 9 poacher like Lewandowski it will prolong his career and maybe dont get injured
R9's top speed was very good but there are other players with top speed at that level, the secret is his acceleration. R9 can burn you in two or three strides.
@@ivocoelho6588 Not a chance Kaka is touching him at top speed , Kakas great ability was there wasn’t much difference between his top speed with or without the ball but in a 100m race a prime Ronaldo would burn Kaka .
Probably the fastest player ever running with the ball. Insane speed with control. There might be faster out there, but not with the ball at their feet.
But r9 is faster than Leo. R9 hits the ball slightly forward but still in control and that let’s him run faster. Messi has the ball glued to his feet, so that slightly reduces his speed.
@john Cenna I have the same 6 names in a different order Diego, Ronaldo, Messi , Zidane, Ronaldinho CR7 but you cant really compare, Vision and craft Zidane, best forward Ronaldo, Best wing forward Messi, Most complete CR7 , highest natural ability Diego, best trick player of all time Ronaldinho R9 and Ronaldinho would top the list if they held their peak for 10 years, sharing with Maradona
Maradona 1st for me ..why? coz the way he enchanted the whole world back then where there's no sattalite TV nor internet plus he has this special aura within him that can send players and spectators into euphoria whenever he is on the field...he is the first true maestro/mega star of the game ...2nd is Ronaldo eventhough he is my favorite of all time ..then come the rest in the like of Zidane Messi Ronaldinho CR7 (with special mention for the like of Marco Van Basten,George Weah, e.t.c).
If you were opposing team fan you start sweating as soon as he gets the ball, turns towards goal and starts running even when he's near the center of the field. He was the most feared player ever. This is coming from Milan's fan.
Yeah that turn + sprint was deadly af. Cant believe legendary defenders got caught by it like a bunch of amateurs but that what makes him phenomenal. He makes legends looks like a fool.
He receiving the ball while his back turned to opponent’s goal and then turn and run in split second like he already was running towards opponents goal at his maximum pace. Crazy!😮😮😮 Legend! 👏👏👏💪🏼
@@prajaktlade not really! All those wild tackles on him like they wanted to chop his legs off was the reason he got injured so many times. Those turns probably weakened his knees but not that much!
I have a lot of respect for Messi and Cristiano but neither of them is better than R9! Goals alone are not everything! There are some strikers who have more goals than R9 but still doesn't make them better than him. Henry, Ibrahimovic, Van Persie, Van Baasten, Romario, Biaggio they are all world class then there is one step up. Cristiano and Messi! This tier is only topped by Pele and Maradona, and then at the top of the throne is R9. Football was at its best in the 90s and anyone could become a champion in any country. Germany: Bayern, Bremen, Kaiserslautern, Dortmund, Bayer 04 Italy: Milan, Inter, Juventus, Roma, Parma, Lazio all were strong Spain: Atlético, Real, Barca, La Coruna, Valencia England, France etc. everywhere it was balanced and difficult to become a champion. Today in Germany Bayern wins 7-10 times in a row something like that would never have been possible in the 90s. In Italy, Juve have been champions 7 times in a row or Inter 6 times in a row In England only Man City for years. In France only Paris. Spain 90% Real or Barca. Football today is much easier than in the 90s because it's about money and the top teams destroy everyone else no wonder then Messi and Cristiano had + 50 goals every season. Let Messi and Cristiano play in the 90's I put my hand in the fire they would have kicked completely broken and wouldn't have nearly as many goals.
if Mbappe is fast with the ball imagine Ronaldo is super fast with the ball. Unstoppable!! I never see someone faster than Ronaldo (before his injuries) And imagine we never see Ronaldo in his true prime age how great should be because he was already injured bad back to back
Exactly, that’s the scary thing about him. He never had a prime. In his teenage years, Ronaldo had simply alienesque abilities before the injuries. Just phenomenal! Literally a cheat code. Ronaldo is arguably the best footballer that has ever existed.
