Whatever it was, for this man to perform like he did in the 2002 WC after that experience is just insane. Without his knee injury he would have been the greatest player ever.
the fact that he can still be considered the goat 🐐 after so many crucial injuries is alone one of the reason he’s one of the all time greats; to me, no one was better than him before the injuries, I think there has never been a player so fast, technically gifted and deadly at the same time. But I still give #1 to Pelé, what he’s accomplished is absolutely out of this world and probably no one else will ever match it, and I’d tie Ronaldo and Romário at second place in the goat argument 😊
i have always thought the fact that Ronaldo had a seizure and didn't want to miss the final was a good enough explanation. And after something like that happening to a player i can totally understand why the rest of the team (especially those who saw it) were just in shock and not in the right condition to play to their best in the final. and against that France team, anything less than at your best was doomed to lose. i'm very glad that Ronaldo was able to complete what is in my opinion one of the greatest comeback stories of all time after this and the his knee exploding once he got to Inter.
@@parisp2583 oh yeah no i know they were awful in that, just meant in the 98 WC they were pretty resilient. only conceded 2 goals in the whole tournament
Are you daft?? Do you think professional grown up footballers are going to be so shook up by hearing that a friend had a seizure😂😂 you must be the most sensitive person in the world! Do you wear a nappy? Why would they be not be able to play football if someone had a fit?? People have seizures ten times a day! A grown up man will not let that affect them! They would say play or don't play! They wouldn't care!
Considering you mentioned lunch while explaining the story, I wouldn't have been surprised if you said France pulled an Arsene Wenger on Ronaldo. He was their best player by far and would've won Brazil the world cup if he was fit, so it's likely that someone put something in his food to make him sick.
Growing up, I always heard from people that what happened to us in the 1998 was either: 1- the bribe stuff, or 2- that Ronaldo found out that his then girlfriend was cheating on him with a famous journalist from Brasil, and that combined with specific medication he was (supposedly) taking + stress made him have a convulsion whatever it was, I guess most people today do believe that all that happened was Ronaldo had an unfortunate seizure and it is what it is; we don’t see a reason so many people would lie about that for so long, which might not even be possible considering many outspoken players such as Edmundo talked about this several times on the media.
Nope Ronaldo was poisoned! that’s Despite the loss of Brazil. I salute the man R9 Ronaldo for fighting it out there. I say no one, literally no one can barely walk straight after a same day seizure, I am a patient of recurring seizures and I know it. He was still running there. No one can do that after suffering fit on the same day
in 1998 the Brazilian players said the team was in shock with what happen to R9, so besides the incident, France had Zidane that was inspired that day playing against a broken spirited Brazil. What ever happened to Ronaldo did the trick
@@ha04Rry I know thats because I tried to make a joke in time so my comment would be pinned and many people would see but I needed to have creativity because I don't want to be one of those guys who only posts good video or I was the first because I already love this videos and I support him since 2020 and some of my comments were the ones with most likes in other videos so yeah but I know thats a bit stupid, but what I tried to say was that his career was ended by his injuries so fast but still slower than me
@@aguyjr I changed it like 5 times now but like poor maguire one bad season and a 80 million pound transfer and he is already the greatest joke in football history.
Do a video what if the 2002 world cup wasn't rigged - italy vs spain quarter final, winner vs. germany semifinal, winner vs. brazil in the final. both the italian and spanish teams were better than the german one, so a different final would have taken place
In those days 15million was a lot of money especially to players who were not making r9 money I think they took the 15million and Ronaldo did get sick and decided he wasn’t going to be apart of it so got poisoned somehow with something that gave him a seizure for not wanting to be a part of the fix and then there is also Nike
I remember it clearly he was on fire all tournament and in the final he was like an impostor on the pitch. I can believe Nike pushed him onto the pitch.
