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End of Ronaldo's (Brazillian) career?

Manchester United
by U3696579 14 February 2008
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I hope the guy comes back alright. He was a star in the 90's. All the best.

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posted Feb 26, 2008

Ronaldo has been the best striker in the world voted 3 times!!! i support n love manchester united! but ronaldo!!!!!! i have followed his career for over a decade!!! he is something else!!! anyone who thinks different is just chatting it!!!

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posted Feb 26, 2008

eldo_d your a house!!!

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posted Feb 26, 2008

First of all ill try to put as a good comment. Ronaldo was the best of the best in 1998 world cup. His record over the years has been phenomenal. And he is still scoring goals now even though he gets injured a lot. Can`t think of many if not any strikers and can come back from long injuries and keep scoring goals. He is definitely up there with the best of the best of all time not just brazilian strikers and strikers all the over world as he has scored at stadiums all over. Like old trafford when he socred that hat trick against man u i remember the first one where i think he outsprinted ferdinand before scoring i think a angled drive. It will definitely be sad to see him retire but maybe it is the best option for him to retire from football becuase if he keeps coming back and getting injured he could just get an injury that he cannot fully recover from.

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posted Feb 26, 2008

It is incredible for a player who has been injured for the best part of his career to still become one of, if not the most decorated players in history (only cl missing from his resume')

IMO, ronaldo is the greatest footballer of all time, he won the golden ball (best player france 98), golden boot(world cup 2002) he is a two time winner of the tournament also.
if you look up the word "striker" in the dictionary it refers you to his hatrick against united in the champions league.
i hope he comes back and keeps scoring

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posted Feb 28, 2008

Where do you begin to explain the genuine talent that is The first Ronaldo. When he attacked a defence it seemed that all of sudden the defenders were scared rather than wanting to stop him. Defenders in Italy and spain such as Fabio Cannavaro and Lillian Thuram have been quoted as saying they feared him. He made mugs out of the best players out there and still his ranking as a true great is scoffed at because he has been injured or overweight over the last 2 years. If you compare the current 3 best (kak,c.ronaldo,messi) i dont think any of them are at the level ronaldo was at when he was injury free, let alone when he peaked (1996-1998) He is the best striker of all time and should be placed in the top 10 of all time. Not only was he a talent so unique because of his pace,dribbling,finishing and vision of the game but he mostly handled himself in a humane and dignified manner. His charity work was an ample example of the fact that he had an idea that the world was not just football. No question if he had not suffered all this injuries we would be talking about him, and not pele/maradona as the God of football. I would say Thierry Henry at his peak was a poor mans Ronaldo (i support arsenal and i say this) and that Ronaldo strutted his stuff in the more calculating environment of serie A and la liga rather than the headless chicken defending of english football. Get well soon Ronnie, and come back and score in South Africa 2010 because football needs you.

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comment by filly84 (U9336715)

posted Feb 28, 2008

ronaldo was an absolute legend! well is i suppose! but he could have been so much more!
that first season at barcelona was any players perfect season! players would dream of having a start like he did! but why leave after just 1 season? no idea! money? maybe. but for whatever reason he did it i feel it was the wrong decision!. from when he left barcelona he got injured and things started to go wrong and we only really saw glimpses of the player that he could have been!
The guy was awsome though at barca!
best striker ive seen in my lifetime by a mile!

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posted Feb 28, 2008

i agree

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posted Feb 29, 2008

Unbelievable player! Best player from about 1993 to 2000. Three World Player of the years.. couldv'e been more. Highest goal ever scored in World Cup history. What an acheivement!! ok

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posted Mar 2, 2008

The man could have been the greatest player of all time ever if he didn't get injured. At Barca he was the absolute best and nobody in any era could come anywhere near that type of striker.

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comment by U10148453

posted Sep 16, 2008

At his pomp, there were none finer!

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