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Ronaldo to retire!

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No not the gayboy, the brazilian striker. rumours he'll retire tomorrow. great striker, i remember the night he scored a hat-trick at old toilet, but like most will probably remembered for the fiasco around the wc final in 98.
 
Greatest striker I've seen in my lifetime. Shame that, like most other Brazilians, he turned into a fucking mess.
 
ditto, a fantastic goalscorer. impressive cv - psv, barca, real, inter, and milan and brazil.
 
Shame he's never won the Champions League. At least I don't think he has.
 
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I think I saw him when Japan played Brazil at Goodison in the Umbro cup in the mid nineties

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I went to that. I don't think he played, Vlad. I remember asking my mum, but he was on the bench. I think he was only about 16 at the time.
 
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[quote author=Vlads Quiff link=topic=44219.msg1285075#msg1285075 date=1297639468]
I think I saw him when Japan played Brazil at Goodison in the Umbro cup in the mid nineties

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I went to that. I don't think he played, Vlad. I remember asking my mum, but he was on the bench. I think he was only about 16 at the time.
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I stand corrected, he did play...

http://footballdatabase.eu/football.coupe.bresil.japon.28151.en.html
 
[quote author=Vlads Quiff link=topic=44219.msg1285080#msg1285080 date=1297639874]
We saw a few legends that night eh?

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I know! It's a shame I remember absolutely NOTHING of the game.
 
I can't either but we have seen them none the less

Zetti
Aldair
Márcio Santos
Jorginho
Roberto Carlos goal
Doriva
Dunga
Juninho Paulista 61
Zinho goalx2 72
Edmundo
Ronaldo

Leonardo 61
Rivaldo 72
 
Legend.
I think he's best striker/forward of all time. I never saw Pele play but I guess he's number one in the official ranking.
 
620 games 420 goals at all levels. Outstanding. It's a shame the smarmy gay waiter has the same name and younger generations will associate him with the name "Ronaldo".

That's quite a team isn't it, Vlad? I wish I paid more attention at the time. I may have learnt a thing or two from watching them and solved Liverpool's problematic right back slot!
 
i've never seen anything quite like the mix of attributes he had. incredible athlete and a sublime technique, just a joy to watch. speaking of which:


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at his very, very best.
 
The greatest player I've ever seen live.

And for me the greatest striker ever.

If not for injury it wouldn't be disputed.

That season where he scored over 40 goals for Barca was amazing.

The World cup in 2002 was fantastic too.
 
Considering his dodgy knees, he could have achieved more. My favourite striker of all time.

Superb technique, good turn of speed and an incredible finisher.
 
In terms of out and out ability he really was the real deal, the first part of his career was unbelievable but sadly, shamefully really, he definitely suffered from the spotlight and lost control. His weight became a problem later on and his knees really finished him as a player of total ability. I always got the impression with Ronaldo that he spent half his career trading on past glories, the press had got too big and he got into the parties and the wild life ( ladyboys??) shame because as I think we all agree in his pomp a really fantastic player.
 
john barnes much:

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bloody good player
 
Ronaldo May Be Leaving, but His Joy Lingers

Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima — the great Ronaldo — has quit his game.

Three times the world player of the year, twice the winner of the World Cup, the record scorer in the World Cup finals — the list goes on.

“I wanted to continue,†he told the Brazilian news media before confirming his retirement Monday. “But I can’t do it the way I want to. The head wants to go on, but the body can’t take it anymore.â€

To the umpteenth microphone shoved in front of his nose in São Paulo, he confessed Sunday, “In recent days I have cried like a baby.†Not a baby, perhaps, but ever a child in a man’s body, Ronaldo did something very few players in history ever could. He defined not one World Cup, but two.

At Saint-Denis, the stadium on the outskirts of Paris, news broke on the afternoon of the final in 1998 that Ronaldo had had a seizure, reportedly epileptic, in his hotel room. He was in a hospital and would miss the game.

But when the team rosters were handed out minutes before the kickoff, Big Ronnie’s name was on it. It was overwritten in ink on the typed script.

He appeared, but he barely figured in the match. It was as if Ronaldo was there in body but not in spirit. Brazil lost, and Zinédine Zidane was what Ronaldo should have been.

Four years later, in Korea and Japan, Ronaldo reversed that puzzle. His knees, gutted of sinew through surgery after surgery, clearly pained him. His frame was heavy, and the top end of his once-searing speed was withered.

Yet by his presence, by his desire, by his belief and, above all, by his astonishing accuracy with either foot, he outscored every player in that tournament, including two goals that beat Germany in the final at Yokohama, Japan.

By common opinion, he should never have started the 1998 final. By unanimous acclamation, he transcended the tournament in 2002. And by medical and sporting standards, his triumph over doubt was, and probably will always be, beyond the call of duty.

His desire overcame all things. Even Brazilians put him in a hallowed ring of three incomparable World Cup achievers — with Pelé and Garrincha.

And his career span sits somewhere between those two, because Garrincha, a fantastic wing who triumphed over childhood adversity, had a glorious decade from the mid-1950s to 1960s but died tragically lonely of alcohol poisoning before he reached 50. Pelé, of course, still enjoys global fame in his 70th year.

Ronaldo is 34, and if he sticks to his decision to retire, he has the rest of his life to find a new meaning.

He has been called, by the Italians, one of three European countries where he played and conquered, the Phenomenon. It is a description that has fit him like a soccer shoe.

At 17, he followed Romário’s path to PSV Eindhoven. He possessed some of Romário’s uncanny instincts around goal, and developed some of his appetite for nightclubbing, partying and womanizing. From Eindhoven to Barcelona, where Ronaldo had one brief but memorable season, scoring 34 goals in 37 games, he then moved on to Inter Milan, to Real Madrid, to A.C. Milan and finally to Corinthians in São Paulo.

He collected injuries and accolades along the way, and children born in and out of wedlock. His responsibilities to the teams he played for were never doubted. His irresponsibility, to his own body and to the lifestyle that coaches tried to impose on him like a corset, was legion. But I shall remember him most for his absolutely boyish openness. To meet him was to know instantly that with all his distractions, he lived for his game and through it.

When the specialists opened and reopened his knee joints, and when the skeptics prematurely pronounced him finished on at least three occasions, he just kept coming back, and delivering.

At his best, he displayed a clarity of mind and an ability to strike out of nothing that defied all manner of attempts to stop him.

His 62 goals in 97 games for Brazil’s national team pretty much squared with the 412 goals he accumulated in 612 appearances with seven clubs in two hemispheres.

So much for statistics. They tell you nothing about the joy of witnessing him in action. They reflect little of the sheer defiance he displayed, time without number, in playing at all when his sinew was broken.

A big athlete at 6 feet, he carried weight that in his later years prompted opponents and mindless spectators to chide him as the Ice Cream Man or just, crudely, Fat Boy.

But at his farewell news conference Monday, Ronaldo wanted to put the record straight.

“Four years ago at Milan I discovered I was suffering from a complaint called hypothyroidism,†he said, describing the diagnosis as a thyroid problem that slows down the metabolism. “To control it,†he added, “ I was told I would have to take some hormones that are not permitted in football because of antidoping.â€

The sporting cycle turns. As time and pain catch up with Ronaldo, Brazil’s under-20 team crushed Uruguay, 6-0, in the South American youth event. A heralded Neymar scored twice and an 18-year-old midfield player, Lucas, struck three excellent goals on a bog of a field in Peru.

We might hesitate before calling these boys phenomenal.
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what the fuck. and what the fuck.
 
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