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r9 is the highest peak a human has ever reached as a footballer
Doesn't even come close to Messi's peak
@@ModernFootball866Messi peak requires barca with 70℅ possession with Xavi and Iniesta creating space controlling the field.. R9 didn't need any...
@@MetapodUsedHarden9so true. messi is good. no doubt. but barca players were only focused on messi
@@MetapodUsedHarden9 That's not true and a false narrative. Messi in the 18/19 season played one of the best individual seasons of all time without Xavi and Iniesta (he was better than R9 and CR7 in their best seasons) and was way better than R9 vs the biggest clubs. R9 was mostly statpadding vs small clubs, Messi did it vs the biggest and strongest clubs - huge difference.
@@Aualan Every good team is focusing on their best player. Did you ever compare R9's and Messi's numbers? It's not even close, so it doesn't make sense to think R9's peak was on the same level or even better. That's just irrational and proves that you are just a R9 fan, influenced by nostalgia. It's not a rational and objective evaluation
I've come to the conclusion , people who understand football deeply also understand that R9 is the GOAT. Meanwhile others who are still in the process of growing will think the goat is whoever player is doing the best at the present time.
💯
Maradona
BS. I think R9 was fantastic, I was there to see him play......and his legend is being blown out of proportion. He was impressive because he dribbled at high speeds and was super direct towards goal. But that's not the ONLY way to be good at football. He stands out from his peers because of his speed dribbling. Even Romario, from Brazil too, for me is a better 9.....and people always forgot him. Your comment is based on the simplistic football narratives. And people like you ALWAYS have to teach others who the "GOAT"s are. You know Zidane was great...but you have no clue how close Rui Costa and othesr were to him at the time. You hear of two season that were good with Ronaldinho and think he also needs to be a GOAT...... R9 was great...but he had his carreer cut short.
@@jeanjacqueslundi3502- You know better than Mourinho, Seedhof, Maldini, Nesta, Buffon, Zidane, Henry I can go on. Every striker of is generation call him the greatest striker of all time. He's most players top three greatest player of all time. Even the strikers than scored more than him, Henry, Bastistuta, Vieri, Inzaghi, Van Nisttaroy regard him as the greatest striker ever. Yet, you keyboard warriors that create your own narratives and pretend as if you know more than the entire generation of managers that played and managed him is laughable. You seem to lack the basic ability to make th distinction between ability and application. Instead you think all Ronaldo did was dribble at high speed. Madness 😂😂
@@embisonjones4996 You are the one that are conflating ability with being the best. It's not. Also, I don't care about those names. As if being good at football made you a good judge. Hell, Di Stefano also said in 2014, the best of all time for him will always be Eusebio. Have you seen Eusebio play? You think he is inferior to R9? (and this is just an example). Ask Zidane what he thinks about Eusaebio or Buffon. Ask them about Romario. Gimme a break pleb.
R9 is the best my eyes have ever seen.
🦯
Without doubt
People forget that R9 destroyed the greatest defenders in history. Maldini, Cannavaro, Nesta, Costacurta, Ayala, Stam, Desailly, Puyol, Thuram. What’s even more impressive is that after his career threatening injuries he was written off before the 2002 World Cup, he hardly played for 2/3 years before. Then goes to the WC, finishes top scorer and 2 in the final. Also, he changed football. Modern strikers play the way they do today because of R9, Romario and George Weah, but in particular R9. He played like a winger, but through the middle and football hadn’t seen that before. Dropping deep to get the ball then running at defenders. And when he ran at them, he was UNSTOPPABLE. O FENÔMENO
R9 IS EITHER UNDERRATED OR OVERRATED LIKE YOU ARE DOING NOW.. he is extremely good but dont talk too much man.r9 had 0 topscoring seasons in serie a and you are tellin he destroyed maldini, cannavaro and all the italian defenders. how can the guy you are glazing so hard not top the league in goals in prime being a striker?
maldini never played against messi and when asked about it said" I am lucky to not play against messi". and nesta played against messi and got cooked.also nesta said in an interview that "messid destroyed me mentally". AND THOUSANDS SAY MESSI IS GOAT but you have 1 defender nesta and maldini who favours messi. R9 is great but dont glaze him so hard saying such things lol. he couldnt topscore serie a in his prime for 3 years. what type of goat striker is he? because of brasil superteam, he is still there. YOU FIRST WATCH MATCHES INSTEAD OF HIGHLIGHTS AND HE DOESNT SCORE AS OFTEN AS YOU THINK. HIS WC IS THE ONLY GOAT LEVEL ACHIEVEMENT , REST ARE JUST GREAT ONES. AND KNOW YOUR FACTS BEFORE BLINDLY TYPING.@@mick6729
@@goodlad8166 R9 peak is very short and he is not hardworking.
so? messi is also not as hardworking as cr7. and r9 had prime in inter , thats basic knowledge for an r9 fan and he topscored 0 times as a striker. so how can you glaze him that he would do this do that melt mountains... thats too much. rate fairly that he is a great striker . no such idioticness,@@markfish1113
@goodlad8166 ever heard about being sarcastic. Maldini was outrageous in clean defending. He can also stop Messi
The best attacker/striker ever.
*player
Look at Mourinhos eyes when he talks about him
Imagine what he was actually seeing 😮
R9 is best striker ever born.. Dribling, Running, Finishing, Shoting, Heading, Trickster, One on One. Samba Dancing.
everything you said was spot on, except his heading, he didn't like to head the ball and he wasn't scoring a lot of goals with headers
@@lethargicmosquito Look at his first few games at Cruzeiro and you'll be amazed at the headed goals he scored.
@@18ilfenomeno I've witnessed his whole career mate, the guy was playing as a striker, we was bound to score some headers but this doesn't mean he was good at it or he liked doing it. He has scored 298 goals at club level, only 22 of them headers
@@lethargicmosquito Yes, but it's not because he's not good, it's because teams have decided to play on his speed rather than his heading ability. At Cruzeiro he scored a lot of goals with his head. When he arrived in Madrid, Real used to cross a lot for Raul and Morientes, and when Ronaldo arrived, their game changed. I would insist that Ronaldo is a good header, but this aspect of his game was not developed when he arrived in Europe, because his coaches favoured his speed and dribbling.
@@18ilfenomeno makes sense to be fair, he wasn't short and he was Uber talented in everything else so I cannot see a reason why he wouldn't be good at that as well if he wanted to develop this aspect of his game. I'm saying that he didn't like heading the ball based on an interview of R9 back in the day, he was saying he preferred balls to be played at his feet or the open space than his head. I guess it boils back to what you were saying, he was more used to playing like this
R9 without training was the best player in the world at 19 years old! Hes simply the greatest player in football history. Imagine without injuries and actual training? And he achieved this while playing in the greatest and most competitive era in football history: 90s-2000s. Ill stop right there, its just not fair for any human.......or alien. 👽🏆🥇⚽️🇧🇷
I love him and he is one of the best players oat, but he is more like a "what if". Even before his injuries, he never reached the same level as Messi in his prime
even with injuries he is regarded as the best striker of all time.. for me he is always one of the top 5.. coming to 'actual training'- I think he was beautiful because the way he used to enjoy the game.. its the Brazilian way.. flamboyant and samba..
in R9's prime?.. the best ever for sure.. better than even Maradona.. 1 season in PSV 1 in barca and 1 in inter.. these 3 seasons of R9 can be termed as ultimate footballing perfection for a football player..@@ModernFootball866
He was a gift from God to this earth. Imagine he was 19 years nd not training.
He was unreal but I would still say someone like Henry had more about him and was a better player
Fenomeno is most talented player ever. Before injuries he was most devastating player world has ever seen, than Injuries slowed his career. He was like 50% of himself after comeback and still he was best in the world😇
The psv hindoven Doctors did a big mess, after he got injured with out healing perfectly they had allowed him to play.. that mess countnuied through out his carrier.
@@victorious.5394 Did the doctor give him some sorts of drug because when he entered his prime there was a massive difference in size
@@Via_Satelliteare u referring to his weight ? R9 has been diagnoses with hypothyroidism and this caused him to gain weight . His weight may been impacted also his muscles .
@wengelder9256 I was thinking about the difference between skinny R9 at PSV versus the stronger R9 at Barça and Inter. In a documentary, they were saying the dutch wanted him to be bigger so they might've injected something in his food and resulted in that big change.
@@Via_Satellite nobody really knows where this story came from . Neither club or Ronaldo ever confirmed this . Something might have happened , or it is just an urban legend that starts to lead his own life . Looking back at the time he played for psv at age of 18 , he looks pretty normal, there are a few videos on KZhead. Not more or less skinny than other players at the pitch . I am old enough to remember him seeing playing at PSV and he was fast , strong and brilliant . Never I had the impression that he was physically not strong enough . Maybe it’s just what one poster said … not enough time to let an injured knee heal
The reason why many Spanish born 88-90 who were little kids back then became Barcelona fans, was that crazy season from Ronaldo.
r9 still the best ever
R9 was at his prime in the two years spanning his Barcelona single season and first season at Inter where he was unstoppable
Did you see him play for PSV Eindhoven ?
R9 never touched his prime,his prime was yet to arrive😢
Perfect !@@Grudge7
R9 never reach his prime. What we saw in Barcelona and 1st season in intermilan is just teaser. But sad, he was injury before we witness R9 full form. So sad so sad. The true GOAT is R9. His biggest mistake is went to Italy.
sadly, but the truth is we never saw his prime....can not say 19, 20 yrs old as primen.....he never reached his actual prime which is around 27 ish for most of soccer player......having said that, things he achieved after career ending injuries many times showed clearly he could have certainly for sure the greatest the best player ever laced soccer shoes......just Fenomeno it was.....
R9 is the reason why I fell in love with football...messi, cr7 is amazing, but I still can't looking at them the way people looking at them , cause I've seen the best of the best which is" EL FENOMENO "
Messi is like mister perfect and the best but ...there is something i miss ! Maradonna same style like messi but maradonna did more crazy things ! Wild things ! and did you see maradonna freestyle !! And then you have cr7 !!! he is absolutely in my eyes not a natural player ! he is good butt he must work very hard for it ! i will never call him the goat ! but...but also he did amazing things ! his hard work pays off but sometimes its a little bit to much with his show and dribbling.... Then there is R9 !!! For me by far the greatest ever ! The GOAT ! Not pêrfect with his head and no bicycle kick but the way he plays ! from another planet !
He made me like am on cloud 9 as a fan of his. I maned my first son after him born on 14th Dec 1997
the reason i start watching football
Agree
R9 most devastating centre forward I have ever seen with my own eyes he literally destroyed teams on his own
R9 is the best ever. Period. It's unfortunate that people nowadays don't really know how superior he was in every human/alien way possible. Getting the golden boot after injuring both knees and a double in the WC Final vs Oliver Kahn who was almost unbeatable is just another level . The G.O.A.T
Messi is better than R9 and it's not even a debate. He had a better peak, prime, longevity than R9 and is way better vs the biggest clubs
@@ZtkW816 Messi is great at keeping the ball close to his feet.He is a little but like Maradonna and Romario. But R9 …is the best and most dangerous footballplayer the world Will ever seen ! 🐐
@@ZtkW816 Like I wrote earlier. It's unfortunate cause you'll never really understand :)
Pls show me videos of messi nutmegging players and also dribbling the goalies to score goals…if you have those then we will talk further
@@prasanthnaidu1 sorry mate...my reply was actually to the first commentor who claims that messi is better than R9...you should have read my comment thoroughly and then you will know that i sarcastically challenge him to show videos of messi or cr7 does many nutmegs and dribbling against goalies...no one could match R9 when it comes to nutmegs and dribbling against goalies and score goals
Im 40 years old ive seen football ive seen r9 playing there is no one like him people need to see a game of r9 playing at his best to see what he can do i cant compare anyone to him
Could hear Jose telling stories all day.
For real
and his mimics, peaked when he tried to explain what he meant with "lazy" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Holy crap now I understand why everyone says R9 is the goat and not Messi and cr7
Look up his stats in Barca then you know why he's a legend
R9 was like a wild horse.. force of the nature.. you can’t compare him with the likes of messi Cr7 or mbappe.. they went through rigorous methodical training and achieved everything in the game.. but if you put R9 or maradona in systematic training they will be dumbfuck product..
That's only what casuals who watch football once a month say, people with even little ball knowledge would never put R9 above Messi
@@vhureyeweqw8808Easily above Messi. Easily.
@@elialvah never
im convinced that if there was ever a brazilian player with talent AND discipline they would be unstoppable, meaning no laziness, no excess party or drinking. That'd be a sight to behold.
That goes for every country dude😂
Na F1 existiu, Ayrton Senna. Infelizmente os jogadores de futebol do Brasil vem das favelas, a maioria deles não tem qualquer educação ou disciplina, o maior exemplo é Neymar
Pelé, and many others too
RONALDO il Fenomeno il più forte e spettacolare calciatore di tutti i tempi!!! Unico, irripetibile e INCOMPARABILE!!!
Bobby Robson is one of the godfathers of football. Inspiring managers like Jose, Pepe and inviting Sir Alex to training sessions showing people globally the art of football.
R9 was a real life FIFA my career player with injury sliders turned up to 80%.
Mourinho and Barcelona is a unpopular lovestory....Iykyk
R9 is the only player whose feet move like a magician's hands.
R9 is the best player I have ever Seen . A guarantied Goal even after the injury he still a beast ..
"Power Is Nothing Without Control" ~ Ronaldo Nazario
The talent that R9 was born with is madness That guy was like a glitch from the universe that has to be corrected by injuries .. I saw them all till current generation . R9 b4 serious knee injuries without training as Jose said b4 23 was the best ability I have ever seen in this game
R9 IS THE GOAT!
R9 was like Maradona and pele a gift from god we all know he would of been the greatest of all time
Look up Ronaldo's stats when he was just 19 years old at Barcelona. You won't find any better stats than that ever
47. Goal in 49 matches (official) what the hell dude
Messi had 91 goals in 2012 calender year and had many better seasons than that one season by Ronaldo. Same goes for Cristiano Ronaldo. But R9 is definitely the greatest striker of all time. Mbappé is very reminiscent of him.
@@tropical9913average goals has changed over time and haaland now is putting in the numbers... Suarez outscored Messi in that barca team imagine r9 playing with barca having 70℅ of the ball 😂.. R9 did that at 19 years of age and won best player at 20...
@@tropical9913Bro pls...dont compare Ronaldo to Mbappe its not even close 😂 thats disrespectful.
@@henry247 It's not disrespectful at all, look what Mbappé has achieved with France already. Mbappé is almost the topscorer in World Cup history already, and he's only 25 years old at the moment...
You know which crazy statistic R9 has? No other player in history of football scored more goals after outplaying the goalkeeper. Think about that one for a second.
Also probably the only player who won the Ballon d'Or in 2 different centuries/millennias 🥰
Speed Dribble Shoot Champion Mentality=Ronaldo R9 had everything 👍 The Real Striker 👍
I remember when he signed in Madrid, he's verry first play he score 2 goal And first season in FCB he play 49 Games and scores 47 goals
He changed the sport. He made the chops and the step overs the norm. Now even defenders use it. Tell me after him, who changed the game? And how .
Before Ronaldo, Romario played for PSV. Ronaldos arrival at PSV was less special for us because we already saw the Brazilian style with Romario for 5 years. Before Romario, there was young Maradonna dribbling for Napoli. Doing things nobody ever done before. Ronaldo one of the greats. No doubts. But Maradonna, Romario made far more impact on the game in my experience. Later on Ronaldinho became a true wizard
@@petermulder7480 you're the first dutch I heard say that. I heard van der vart say himself that for the fans it's ronaldo, romario then farfan..and he said that on tv to peruvian reporter. I think you like Maradona and romario better, bur 11 ronaldos vs 11 maradonas, and its a slaughter. same with romario, but romario would probably be a closer score...
I saw R9 live in Italy with number 10 ! Nobody comes close ! By far the 🐐
Easily its Messi changed the game after R9's striking ability, false 9 cut in from wing. R9 time was direct football true 9 going 1 vs 1.
if you think messi is the first false 9, man you have a lot to learn. I think Messi is one of the greatest offensive players and one of most gifted handling a ball. That's undisputed, but he has not impacted the actual sport. I think Holland of the 70's did, perhaps Pele made the 10 position look spectacular and inspired 10's for the rest of the sport's history. But change it? i dont know? Im a sport enthusiast and Ive seen tons of fooatge of legends and Im still in my search for the guys that changed the game, kind of like Oscar robertson in basketball. All that being said, I think messi is the best player since prime kaka, dinho and cristiano in man u. He has benefited from a cleaner game, like a lot of offensive players have ( retiring close to 40), and he is fitting for the era@@markfish1113
i just checked and he really played only one year in barça and the highlights look like 6 or 7 seasons of crazy goals.
and plays..
At 19 years of age
R9 talent was so huge that his own body wasn't able to sustain it
Messi came from barcelona academy, play the style of barcelona, mentored by ronaldinho, xavi, iniesta, having played for the first team since he was 16, 3 years later at 19 destroying madrid with a hat-trick and ankara messi to getafe. On the other side though, 19 yers old R9 just arrived at barca the day before spanish super cup vs atletico with no time to adapt after coming from lesser league, no 3 years of ronaldinho and co mentoring, never in the la masia, AND SCORED 2 GOALS IN THE SPANISH SUPER CUP WHILE STILL HAVING JET LAG. THAT'S WHY A MANAGER AT MOURINHO STATURE SAID IT OVER AND OVER AND OVER "CRAZY, CRAZY,CRAZY" "THE BEST PLAYER I'VE SEEN ON THE PITCH". Wins FIFA POTY at 20 (youngest recipient ever) wins BALON D'OR at 21 (also youngest recipient ever). At 23 BLOW his pattelar tendon fyi thats the tendon that holds your knee cap and the doctor said his knee cap was up in the mid of his thigh when he they do the surgery. The cause is his body can't handle the explosiveness that he generates every time he runs/dribble. That kind of injury reduce his then potential for being the GOAT to the best striker of all time.
R9 without injuries much better than CR7 and Messi! The best by far!
come one , did you see Messi from 2009-2012? he is up there in Talent, Cristiano is a different story..
@@ControlledChaos-rk5tk I saw and R9 was way better than Messi! And the players that R9 played against were much better than the players that Messi played too!
That's why they calling him Fenomeno!
R9 the best player ever.
R9 Mourinho "crazy crazy.."
Yeah, that's like an artist it's not that he paints paintings to copy nature but to shape it and evoke a feeling. R9 was an artist. Where if football has an emblem like NBA. He would be the poster boy because it's just beautiful what he did.❤
R9 THE BEST PLAER IN HISTORY FOOTBALL WITH PELE THE KING 🤩🥰😇😍💯❤
One of my all time fav players and one of the biggest, if not the biggest "what if"
People need to know he won 2 world cups almost 3 like pele after pele for me its him r9
How a news anchor introduced him in my country : "Football now, the shortest path from point A to point B is...a straight line." *Cuts to R9 running through 4 defenders on a 50m solo goal. I spent the rest of the day in disbelief.
After the injuries he only won the fifa world cup with 2 goals at the final game. The scorer of competition. AFTER THE INJURY! so you can imagine
Ronaldo fenômeno The Best King 👑 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾
Ferdinands reaction is gold. 😂... "Without training..." Turns his head slightly "Hm ???" 😂
Most elegant player ever.
Naahhh :). That one is Kaka.
Zidane
That'd be Kaka... R9 was more like a wild beast
Kaka was elegant, but for me Zidane is the king of elegance..@@henry247
Il Fenomeno❤
I find very interesting when the current generation of soccer fans say thar CR7 or Messi are the best players of all times. They clearly don`t know much about the game. At the same time, it is understandable, as it is easier to see what`s happening now than to find videos of R9 on youtube and make clear comparisons. You can only tell the difference if you actually saw R9 playing and you see whats happening today. R9 is the real G.O.A.T(period)
Goat
R9 was the Goat , he was able to dribble 5 players at a time as if he was toying all of em in one go and such an amazing finisher , I have been watching football since the 90s and I haven't seen anyone like him , though his career was cut short due to injuries but it was always captivating to see him play and make defenders look like helpless worthless lol
Im 25….. I love watching old clips of R9 what a footballer …. shame he was a bit before my time wish I experienced him in his peak.
When the whole old trafford stand up for you. You know your're a goat.
Os melhores jogadores, tecnicos, etc dizem que Ronaldo foi o maior que ja viram, e para mim tb, nunca vi um jogador TAO talentoso e intimidador como o Fenomeno. Messi e Cristiano Ronaldo, são mais longínquos e "focados" mas no talento natural, ninguem supera o Fenomeno.
Best Nr 9 that ever played by far
Barcelona is a legendary club. Mourinho and R9 our core enemies were once our beloved children.
Why Ronaldo Is Called The Phenomenon ! It's not real when ppl say that a player carreer is over just because he left Europe to play elsewhere. Like Ronaldo at Corintians, Ronaldinho also was still really good when he was playing at Flamengo and Atlético Mineiro when he left Europe, Marcelo and Felipe Melo just won the '' champions league '' equivalent for Fluminense on South America and Cristiano Ronaldo is still doing the best in Saudi league. So no, leaving Europe does not mean your carreer is over nor does mean youre not a good player anymore . Best 9 i've ever seen in my life Ronaldo. amazing dance at world cup 98 . Ronaldo is not just phenomenon . so humble,good person and funniest too. Ronaldo is the best ever for ever!
R9 is the best!
Not one player did, does that indefensible sprint with 1 stepover to the left and low cross hard kick. It was R9 signature move. All forwarders, amateurs and Pros must learn that.
O Fenomeno🥇
He did more at Real than at Barcelona and Inter. I still remember his hat trick as a RM player at Old Trafford. He was a killer.
nothing compared to his pre-injury version.. in PSV, Inter and Barca he was unreal.. and alien.. In Real he was world class but not like late 90's version.. he won world cup golden ball in 1998..
@@thebengalurubong2047 He had changed his playing style when he was in Madrid and Milan. You will find the more exciting R9 by watching his reels in PSV, Barca and the first season in Inter.
Ronaldo was the definition of gifted, he was tall , janky and balanced, he was strong as insanely quick, so agile and smart, if he didn't get that many injuries or get hypothyroidism, there wouldn't be a debate for the greatest ever, i myself believe that even with Messi, Cristiano, Pelé, Maradona, Di Stefano, Puskas, Ronaldinho, abd the others playes . Ronaldo still is the greatest ever.
You added Ronaldinho in the discussion but didnt even Mention Zidane or Cruyff , lol
Mr Mourinho...you are right...Ronaldo is amazing...amazing...amazing...GOAT...O'Fenomeno...Ronaldo R9 😀
Robson was trainer at PSV so he probably still followed the club and knew about the exceptional talent of Ronaldo.
Mourinho always said, that Ronaldo was the most brilliant player he'd seen on a football field. Even after all these years. You can *_still_* see in his facial expressions, how much Ronaldo blew his mind back then. Zidane & Seedorf have said, that he was the best player they'd played with & that he did things in training, they'd never seen before or since. Injuries cruely robbed him off his full potential, *_fully_* unloaded. I think his game was a tad route-one & lacked the variation that Pelé - Cruyff -Maradona-Messi, had to their game. Therefore, I'd rank him slightly below those players. All players, i was lucky to have watched, when they were still playing. Messi of course, still going strong.
R9 has fully loaded whatever he could winning everything he wanted... Even the Ucl while at ac milan Ancelotti mentioned... His 4 years of prime from psv barca and Inter is still unmatched together with his 98 & 2002 WC performance... Only maradona and zizou has individual brilliance that matches r9..
I can't put anyone above D10S Maradona. Never seen anything like him. It's as if God's spirit had transcended his physical body, placed a football at his feet and said, "it will obey your every command just talk to it". Maradona gliding on grass and cutting through players as if they weren't there was POETRY in motion. I am sorry but no one could make a football so subservient like DM did. There is Maradona, then a blank space and then everyone else.
@@aqeelyousuf31 Messi's the best controller of a moving ball on the ground I've ever seen. Especially in tight spots, with numerous bodies around him, to stop him. His close-control, shoulder drops, body feints, incredible. He changes of directions, via his out of this world, " pendulum - hips" swerves, the best. When numerous oppostional bodies got around Maradona, he struggled ( players back in his time, weren't pressed, the way Messi had to deal with numerous presssing on him, while dribbling ). Also as a dribbler, he's way above any other dribbling player to *_ever_* play in Europe club football. Matthews, Sivori, Eusébio, Best, Cruyff, Maradona, Ronaldo 9, included. No player as scored the amount of slalom goals, dribbling from deep zones on the pitch in European club football. Getafe '07, Real Madrid '11, Atlectico Bilbao '15, Eibar '17, etc & many more. Maradona playing in European club football got nowhere near those type of dribble goals & that many also...
@@johnpacino007 Did you see Maradona at his peak (let's say 1984-1989) and not on old videos? Maradona's close control and taking out 3-5 players with one deft move and shimmy of his body (did it so many times)? Forget his exploits with Argentina, did you see his Napoli playing career? With regards to pressing, Maradona released the ball early with a beautiful pass that any intentions of pressing would be null and void - no exaggeration. Maradona is the closest to perfection you will observe. Also, one cannot compare today's game with yesterday-Maradona seldom got protection from the referees, as per norm, whereas players are afforded an enhanced level of protection in modern football. Messi has been fouled a lot but nowhere near the level Maradona was.
@@aqeelyousuf31 Mate, i watched the whole of peak Maradona career. From 1979 to 1988 back then.I remember his game very well. I started watching football back across the 1970s, when Cruyff & Beckenbauer were at their ultimate peak. From what I've watched from 1970 to 2024: Messi-Maradona-Cruyff-Beckenbauer-Ronaldo 9 -Zidane, in that order, the best off the lot.
crazy..... crazy.... its crazy..... crazyyy
Unstoppable.
You always knew he would score no matter what
AI is still in its infancy but One day, it will tell us that R9, is the best.
He,is just tje best
LOVE YOU JOSE
2:36 I believe the physicality of The Serie A back then was far too ruthless for R9. It makes you wonder if he stayed in Spain would he of lasted longer
The rumor was in brasil they gave him steroids, Ronnie did not know obv, as you know tendons need more time to strengthen and adapt to the boost in power out output. Simply said his thighs were too strong, too explosive for his tendons to keep it all in place. Take the the steroids with a pinch of salt but that is what happened even if he never was administered them
Steroids in Brasil? He was a fly when left Cruzeiro and joined PSV. It's more likely that at Inter they went full on growing muscles. His knees structures couldn't handle It.
@@jesselioceThat's absolute bullshit. He was still a young boy when he signed for PSV, google it. He had the frame of a teen not a bodybuilder.
Ronaldo Nazario and Messi are my fav players
The fact they still asking : Do you think he would be better than Messi without his 3 knee injuries.. Tell u enough how good he was... they said he would win 7 ballon' dors.. which is crazy, cos at that time the italian and spanish league and pl was stacked with star players..
Mourinho is the special One forever
RONALDO NAZARIO SUPERIOR>>>>CRISTIANO+MESSI+MBAPPÉ+HALLAND
Il fenomeno is the most talented footballer ever lived
Unfortunately Brazil does not produce this kind of talent anymore. The likes of R9, Adriano, Ronaldinho, Robinho et al.
They are too busy posting in social media nowadays..
Michael Owen say : "if i put my standard career at his (R9) Level.. im dead... i will never reach that level"
i admit i am that old, to watch Barcelona R9 and i dare to say, when he come to Inter, he terorizing that league, they should`ve won it if that Juve game wasnt rigged and that year is his peak, because at that time, catenaccio is still there in Serie A, crazy tackle, hard foul, tackle from behind, twolegged tackle..and he still dominates it (there`s a clip that he`s toying with Lazio defense) no other modern player can reached that peak
I totally respect R9! I love watching this guy, he was a nightmare to the opponens, always! But you just watch Messi and my oh my! Name a better playmaker than Messi: none... name a better goalscorer than Messi: none... how in hell is this guy a playmaker and a goalscorer at the same damn time... And regarding goalscoring, they are beautiful goals, they really are! What about the freekick department? The beast is still there with the very best; no man has ever mastered every aspect of football like Lionel Messi! He does everything with remarkable precision and intelligence, wow man! who is this guy... How about the sheer volume of nutmegs he has? This guy is the GOAT in football... The number of solo goals? Assists... He's also hit the post/crossbar severally! Another thing, he's ever so casual on the pitch, simply walking at times, so how does he accumulate such numbers?? We cannot understand him; we can only watch and marvel at what he does when he gets a hold of the ball... He's my role model, my idol, and that applies to the rest of the world... How do you command such a great following without saying much, without drama, without being flashy? Again, who the hell is this guy??😳🤯🧐... I wonder!
He's wrong though, his first season at Inter, he didn't get injured, and he played the greatest individual season a footballer has ever played.
He was top
R9 is amazingly talented. However I have never been a fan of Cristiano at first. I begin to admire him since he was at Madrid. How come this guy keep getting better and better and now scoring a lot of goals. And I was mesmerized by his scoring ability (in MU, he was dribble a lot, not my cup of tea), his shooting technique is the best and nobody gonna talk how is he jump that high and score, he was flying for a short moment. No matter how talented you are, u couldn't achieve that. Thats why I admire him. Ronaldo 9 is my childhood favorite because of his dribble not because of his finishing abilities. He was the best and deadly and strong. Not to mention he was against those monsters.
The thing is: R9 did what he did back when almost all great european clubs looked like a "All-stars" team. Messi played in a Barcelona that was the best club in Europe by FAR. CR7 played in a Real Madrid that was the best european team by FAR (3 UCL in a role is not normal). Messi and CR7 were so privileged. Ronaldo shined in 3 different countries. Absolute GOAT.
u have to give credit to Messi, because of him Barcelona become best club by far. R9, Zidane, CR7 didnt have the same effect. CR7 is the only player having privilege, he went to richest clubs with highest spending power in his career. In terms changing club fortunes is Messi>Zidane>R9>CR7.
R9 is 2nd to none - you may have a better career than him but never be a better because he was the perfect player! An alien disguised as a human
If Ronaldinho is the beauty of football ⚽ original Ronaldo is the craze of football ❤
PSV and Ajax shaped both Ronaldo and Ibrahimovich for example. Dutch clubs in general shaped many of the greats in football for that matter and i highly doubt they would ever reached the hights they did without them. In my opinion these clubs should be given a lot more credit for that.
Ppl dream to have him on EAFC than messi or Ronaldo that tells you the whole story
Love from Kolkata, India....
The most lethal striker of all time 🙂
2:50 THIS…. Jose is speaking facts, and this is true for most Brazilian superstars, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Adriano… Brazilians are lazy
Romario neymar all same.. but I think that’s their nature and you remove that carefree attitude they might not be same
@@thebengalurubong2047 also, remember that most of those kids come from nothing and suddenly they are multimillionaire teenagers who live abroad, playing in front of huge crowds and having the best looking women wanting to spend time with them (Romario has entered the chat...), its easy to get carried away towards a rock star life style in those circumstances and yeah, once you do, you won't train well if you are sleepless or on a hangover. Adriano was different, his situation evolved to a full on mental health issue that unfortunately he couldn't get over
R9 is da GOAT 🐐🐐 If you know you know...
watching R9 playing was like watching Art pleasure the eyes
Mourinho has often said Ronaldo is the best he’s ever seen. Look what half washed up Ronaldo done to Rio “Rolls Royce” Ferdinand at Old Trafford in 03. And I’m a United fan. The best player I’ve ever watched on live tv. Phenom was just different. When people talk about Neymar it makes me sick. Ronaldo had more talent in his busted knee than that fraud.
R9 best player in the world didn’t even trained 😂
R9 is the best.