At his prime arguably the best ST of all time. The talent that he had at 19 wasn’t normal.

Neymar...pfft... Nobody close to ronaldo, literally no one

@@albertwijaya7374 Right, even prime Kaka was better than Neymar at his peak. Dude was unplayable the last 2 years before winning Ballon d’or with Milan.

@@albertwijaya7374 If you could read I said “on natural talent” so next time you say something dumb actually read first you donut. I never said Neymar was close to R9 I just compared natural talent so go cry somewhere else 😂 Also Neymar has more goals and assists than R9 so if you go by Ronaldo fanboy logic that means Neymar is better, which clearly he isn’t

@@rc1299 Again another person who can’t read. I never said Neymar was close to R9, no other striker in history is close to R9 except arguably Lewa and Luis Suarez (both players have the stats but football is about more than stats which is why I said R9 was the best striker of all time). I’ve only compared Neymar and Messi’s natural talent, nothing to do with are they close to R9 I’m literally just saying the natural talent they have is the closest I can think of to R9’s level of natural ability along with Maradona, Ronaldinho etc

Lies again? Nazri AO

He just couldn’t resist😀

@@adamnemeth5436 now u have my attention

Haha yeah,nowdays dont see more this.

🤣🤣🤣🤣it was hard being a goalkeeper during his prime years. Especially in Spain.

His first 3 clubs he averaged 0.92 GPG. Ridiculous really. It dropped to about 0.74 when he went to Italy but that was in the best defensive / lowest scoring league in the world. Then he got injured. Overall, his GPG is similar to CR7, but that includes his post injury stats too.

Who done it before ...

A true phenomenon!💚💛

@@davidgraham8058 gpg don't mean shit, how many goals has cr7 to cr9

@@shanehopper100 cr7 was scoring 6 goals a season at 19. There’s no doubt cr7 has had the better club career but comparing them injury free is no contest. Ronaldo at 19 was better than any version of cr7.

ronaldinho much better...

@@stevenvalles2814 technique and skill yes, power and speed no,

@@millerchassis6119 i don't think so .ronaldo uses his skills and tech to go forward while robihno just playing around and stay at the same place most of the time

@@stevenvalles2814 no lol

@@stevenvalles2814 no one in his right sense will take you serious. If Ronaldo wasn't injured Pele would have witness what he says he was and even a better version of Pele.

It was really a shame his prime came this early in his career before injuries screwed him over.

He’s not even top ten 😂

@@fioredeutchmark yeah sure he is not even top 10 cause you play softball

Your opinion is not a fact, is just that, an opinion. Said that so Rivaldo, Romario, Ronaldinho, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are similar to him. Some people said Pelé, some Maradona, some Di Stéfano. Why comparison when everyone is diferent and also they play sometimes in just one position, what about the other players. Sometimes bein a fan blind your mind

Injuries are part of the game. He like almost every Brazilian get tracked brutally because of their style, that’s just the way it is.

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he had it all and the only aspect ronaldinho is better is the supreme dribling out of this world

@@dadodjurovic8206 not really dribbling more skill

@@deisjj7285 quite correct .

Your dreaming

That was football back then - you up, you go

Then you get injured and your career ends, yeah

@@RodrigoR9not from that

Football stars these days receive one nick and roll four times on the ground holding their leg screaming in agony

lol@@hanea1386

True i think 70% football manias came from it.

Football dog

yes sure 🤣

Football like Cinema and every other aspect of life has been Politicised. Go enjoy other stuff that doesn't give it power to grow further, but I'd be amazed if you do.

Also, unbelievable strength, balance and agility.

dont forget killer instinct

for real, messi and neymar wasnt better wonder kids

@@vonnfps156Messi was incredible. Neymar was worth a pinky toe of Ronaldo

@@ChiccaEnterprises Young messi is nowhere near young ronaldo

@@vonnfps156 I agree

@@vonnfps156 No one is really near Prime R9. Untouchable

lilisnoopy90 i was thinking the same thing............You are right.

Amen!

Better than Messi.

you are so lucky. To me he is more than football, he’s god’s gift to humanity

,The greatest to EVER play the game.

Glad to see Messi followed his footsteps with the way he drives the ball towards defenders and just making them nervous. Ronaldo was really a beast.

Any need for all thd CAPITALS

The only time in his career that he ran in the opposite direction was right before scoring his 3rd goal against Lithuania in 1996. That was a memorable hat trick.

A PlayStation real player

he was in very high level but sancho and foden have a big future ahead they are complete players

@@welovefootball4404 Bs Sancho sucks and Foden is another England local superstar like Harry Kane. You can’t compare him or the others with the OG Ronaldo

@@ragnarok283 he didn't compare them tho but they won't be worth one foot nail of the greatest striker ever. in my opinion if he wouldn't have had those problem he could have been the best player ever

@@ragnarok283 TRUE TRUE TRUE

@@ragnarok283 wtf foden is mediocre at best and sancho is soon to be irrelevant. Just bc a young player is good does not mean they will become legends.

Messi 91 goals in 2012

@@kouandtin8059 You mentioned Messi in several comments, understand one thing, we don't care, anyone who likes football knows how much R9 was bigger than Messi before his first injury, NO ONE comes close to Ronaldo in number of goals until he was 21 years old , I repeat, NOBODY. Messi and CR7 played in another era, Messi couldn't last half the season getting beat up in the Italian Serie A of the 90-00. Messi is a genius, but he never played against real defenders, nowadays he can't even have contact between players practically.

Prime shevchenko was as good.plus ronaldo could not play as good with hes head!!

@@UAkovalchuk 😂 😂 😂 🤣 🤣

@Joy Balonda will be? messi without xavi and iniesta in barcelona was just a shadow of his past. And it's not what I think, it's facts, just look at the numbers.

Don't be soft

Agreed

at his prime, that level, is the best of all time

No,cr7 is better than him

@@manh1014 cr7 better than who in what lol dwl how many wc cr7 win and how many wc goals he have and how many wc he play in so far u think cr 7 could make Brazil bench at 17 did he made Portugal team at 17

I know that feel. I never felt that from others. The man was so Ufo

Ronaldo was not the goat, he was the football itself, he was the god of football.

Loooool

Lucky you man. First time I saw him play live on tv was the 98' WC where he was tearing it up while not even at his best

Agreed, glide and skip. Always said that

it was funny how he followed Romario's footsteps, replaced Romario in PSV, and then replaced Romario in Barcelona, different type of strikers but admired them both...

@@Spank1n Ayyy man like Shorty 💯.... Romario is one of my goats. Penalty box murderer ⚽🔥 🎯

You must be pretty old then

Try #GEORGEBEST

Perfect! 👏👏👏

@@jackrambo1999I didn’t see George best but yes another amazing player 👌

Exactly. People confuse "best" with "greatest". The latter is determined by achievements, the former by absolute ability, and those are not the same thing. Pele and Messi had greater careers, but in terms of ability Ronaldo before injuries is still the best the game has ever seen.

@@GM53946 Good point!

​@@GM53946ur eyes are spoiled if u feel R9 is better than Messi

@@sattiksaha6400 At his absolute peak he was. Didn't last long, so Messi is the greater player, but R9 could do things Messi could not. Size, speed and strength matter. R9 was impossible to stop even by a determined defense, while even prime Messi could be very successfully shackled by caging him with four defenders (it happened repeatedly for about a decade).

@@GM53946 in your dreams R9 is a better player, R9 can't even dribble past 3 opponents, R9 was stopped by France team in 1998, also R9 can't score without team, Messi is a one man army, he scores everything, be it free kicks or amazing passes, R9 can't even do that

So true !

88 actually that makes 1 out of every 4 goals he scored

@@rannyranny64 That's incredible stats. Not everyone will think of that kind of finishing

@@renjitggt he has the record

Dribbled pass goalkeepers around 100 times . 88 goals out of those

88 goals

Spot on fella !! The game was a different breed then. Football was pure not like today's game full of overpaid fairy's .

When I read abt defending taken seriously, maguire popped into my head 🤣🤣💀

Lemme guess you were around 12-14 during these years.

Its not about defending was taken seriously, its back then you were able to hack players more freely, you could tug on shirts, you could slide from behind. It was just a much rougher game with the yellow and red cards being used less. Today its harder to play defense because you cant rely on those dirty tactics. I dont know if Ronaldo would have had a healthy career had they protected players back then, I think his explosiveness was just too much for his joints.

Everything said here about defenders is pure bs. Defenders were not tougher than today during Ronaldo's times. And I remember watching the games. Not like some here that just say it to make him more of a legend. Ronaldo was indeed an incredibly gifted player and the defenders were just normal defenders. Like today's defenders. They just couldn't stop him. He was too good.

There’s nothing nerds can tell you honestly. R9 dominated the world of football at 21 years of age, ballon dor, World Cup winner and best player for the best national team in the world, all at age 21. No other player did this. Both Messi and Ronaldo weren’t the best in the world at age 21, Kaká and others ruled over them.

@@Utygyihgfggc yes, I been saying this for years, maybe only Pele light the football field as yo. R9 been doing consistently since 19 yo. He even lost by ONE point to Sammer for Ballon D'or in 96. He was the world player at 20, 96. If talking about class, skills and talent is R9 without doubt for Messi I rate him highly. But for me it's R9, R10 Baggio, Messi, Van Basten and Zizou in particular order. I never watch Maradona live and his already past his best when I start watching football. R9 all the way.

Fat Ronaldo was still world class, prime Ronaldo was the GOAT. Liked to party apparently which didn't help.

His career graph is very similar to Eden Hazard though he was a notch above if primes are compared. He was known to be a lazy trainer and very laid back in his fitness regimen as his natural ability was way too high for his own good.

>gonna see nerds give me goals and stats It won't help to make the argument he was still the same -- the stats did go down.

Yeah

If it’s the 05/06 season you’re talking about Messi was the best player on th field….wtf are you talking about 😂

Messi’s passing is levels above R9. That does it for me.

@@Tiiczencr7 is sucks

You can’t take one Messi performance in isolation. He dismantled English teams after that.

And that was after all those injuries

02-03 season was the last season his playing style showed any resemblance of the real Ronaldo. Too bad he became a pure goal poacher after that season as he started to gain weight due to hypothyroidism.

Exactly

LW Nazario CF Pele RW Maradona

@@Kyle-uz1rp pele the fraud wouldn't even make the bench on a team with those players. R9 is the CF all day.

@@Tasmanaut Why in the world would think pele was a fraud - that is one of the worst misconceptions going around. Whoever started that had done absolutely no research and has no concept of how the game has evolved to become much less physical and easier because of the evolution of technology. If pele played with the lax offsides rule, the amazing pitches, a pair of mercurials and a modern ball he would be doing things that would make you rethink football.

@@Kyle-uz1rp he is literally a fraud. He lied about the number of goals he scored, and many of them were against amateur teams thrown together so that he could put on an exhibition against them. Maybe YOU should do your reasearch

Discipline is kinda like a myth. To be fair, he had a immune disease that would not allow his body to digest food/fat properly. It was only found out later, that's why he couldn't lose weight. Alongside with his knee issues, the weight which he couldn't lose added more pain to the knee... he was playing with handicaps most of his career.

@@decode3667 I think by discipline he was talking about R9’s lifestyle. The man was notorious for being a party animal and constantly drinking and smoking and going on trips to party. It’s weird how many of the biggest superstars of the past lived that lifestyle. R9, Maradona, George Best, Ronaldinho and even Beckham were all known to constantly party and do other substances yet were just incredibly gifted on the field. Makes you wonder how many of them would’ve been better had they lived a different lifestyle but that’s a question we’ll never know the answer to

@@israelhm7339 they wouldn't have been better. Geniuses need that. They have a special brain structure that makes them be how they are.

If R9 isn't the GOAT, I don't know who else can be.

Tinha menos gols que Pelé, apenas

Definitely wanted to be like ronaldo growing up,lol

Obrigada! Muito emocionante seu relato a favor do nosso Ronaldo

@@ailzacarvalho9914 Ele é meu ídolo. Saudações da Alemanha meu amigo :)

Ok now watch Messi videos....

@@kouandtin8059 Ive watched almost all Messis games in the last 12 years, greatest ever. But the level R9 reached was higher, strenght, agility, skills, stamina, ufff... and that fucking injury deprived us of seeing the Best of hom

Im a huge messi fan and his story is still being written

r9 had no real peek tbh which is scary

As a striker? Man, would you believe if i say that here at Brazil we have a VERY good young footballer? His name is Endrick, 15 years, plays for Palmeiras under 17 and under 20 and he has 170 gols in 176 matches (71 in oficials tornaments organized by CBF or FPF). He also won this month the Worldcup Under-17 (he scored 5 gols in 4 matches). In few years you problably gonna heard about him.

Yes they were both frightening.

he makes me think of Tyson as well !

how many world cups, or does winning not matter?

@@uoohknk6881 2 world cups and 2 Copa America

I always rate r9 higher than maradona and pele, my top 5 best player Fit ronaldo Fat ronaldo Injured ronaldo Messi Maradona

@@imrankaixa hmmmm, Maradona over Messi in my opinion. He took that Napoli team to incredible heights. That's like Messi going to Spurs and winning them the league - you think he could do that?

@@HelloMyFriend_ Not anymore but in his prime possible i think. I rate Messi also higher. In my opinion they were quite similar in their prime but the longevity makes the difference

@@hanssarpei8861 all speculation really. Fact is that Messi stayed in comfy mighty Barca. Maradona would have had longer/better career if it hadn't been for personal issues off the pitch, like Ronaldo also had. But ok, all three are phenomenal players, but there is only one Fenomo, and that's Ronaldo.

@@HelloMyFriend_ Yeah off course all speculation. And the personal issues are part of a career. CR7 has way less talent than Maradona or R9 but he worked harder than anyone and thats the reason why he is the 2nd most succesfull player of all time in terms of titles.

May be that's why injury didn’t end thier career.... Defenders used to murder back then....

Messi, WTF?????? Messi would have been nothing if it wasn't for Xavi and Iniesta.

@@SimonBriz cry your eyes out little kiddy, don't worry it will be ok

r9 had no real peak which is actually scary

At his peak? At his peak even God watch him in awe with mouth open..

R9, Pele, Maradona, prime Cristiano Ronaldo (created more chances than Messi did when they were both in their primes and I can back this up with data sets from Squawka, the analytics company which tracks footballing metrics: C.R. won 5 UCLs as top goal contributor - Goals + Assists, no other player in history has more than 3). That's the Mt. Rushmore. Messi is a great player but he has not won much without Xavi and Iniesta and that is a fact. He never won a UCL or multiple la Liga titles without Xavi and Iniesta both on the squad. He would not make my top 4. 7 Finals for Argentina: 0 goals 1 assist

natural né mano nasceu pra isso, sem comparar mas é tipo o Messi, sem "esforço"

vdd

Os caras tentavam derrubar ele a todo custo, mas ele não desistia !

@@Joao-nt2io a diferença é que o Ronaldo tinha um físico melhor que o do Messi (natural) tinha mais de 1,83 de altura e era ambidestro ,e não precisava de um time bom pra jogar pra ele ,ele jogava sozinho

He was a beast. Talent yet to be repeated

Yeah, but with today's treatments, he could have lasted longer.

@@dradenhaven1549 More importantly, with today's manicured lawns. The thing is that when you run that fast and quickly change directions at that speed on some potato field it places enormous stress on your knees. They are still stressed on a smooth surface, but a lot less because each step lands reliably. Unfortunately, the San Siro in the late 90s was notorious for the atrocious state of the pitch. Just watch some of the footage and you will see it easily. And it wasn't just the San Siro, there was much worse elsewhere, and most stadiums in Italy had very low-quality grass. So it is no coincidence that he broke down once he moved to Italy. He still probably would have eventually broken down had he stayed in Barcelona, but his chances to last longer were better there.

It was a matter of time indeed, in fact people were predicting it already in the winter of the 96-97 season when he was still with Barcelona -- precisely with the argument that he runs too fast and his knees will blow up. Which they eventually duly did.

@@GM53946 Damn! I didn't know that... I didn't have the privilege to watch him live so I wouldn't know what people used to say before it happened.

@@GM53946 I heard they bulked him up fast at inter.. and of course his tendons would not keep pace with the added load of a forced bulk up.

ronaldo still fare away from ronnie the best player in the story

@@stevenvalles2814 Ronnie is ronaldo fenomeno nickname. Can you believe that cr7 even copied the nickname? 😉

​​@@giuseppealico2731Cr7 Copy all of things of The Phenomenon R9 ..Bykes,Fints and the way of presentation for the press i mean you see the "Candy in the mouth of R9 " Dont remember Cr7 in conference with the same candy in the mouth realized all gesticulations of face R9 is incredible ..well R9 Influence coming from my mind the first INFLUENCER is R9.

R9, who i watched from his Inter time until his last Real Madrid game, could born 4 times that he wouldnt be half a Cristiano Ronaldo. That simple.

@@notdn right. Watch Zidane, Mourinho (people who actually understand football) among others talking about R9. Zidane even was CR7 coach and he still knows who was The real Ronaldo.

@@diogobfonseca Zidane has said 3 times (that i recall) that the real Ronaldo, Cristiano Ronaldo, is the greatest footballer ever. Less subjectivity/bias and more reality, please.

@@notdn how old are you, champ?

No its because they did it for 20 years and R9 couldnt because of injuries and ill discipline off the field. He is as talented as those guys but his body couldn't stand up to playing 60 games a season for 20 plus years and the other 2 guys did.

If you put Messi at 20yo today he will be at least 500 millions

@@kouandtin8059 Why are these comments replies full of insecure Messi Fanboys.

Yeah 300 million a week!

300 million? You're joking right? His buyout clause would be at least a billion.

Pra frente e pra dentro do gol com bola e tudo. Não era essa feiura de jogo de equipe… de tocar pro lado e pra tras… objetivo era se a bola chegar no meu pé eu vou colocar ela dentro do gol.

Absolutely.

I do remember how we (Inter) won that game in Moscow…. My god that was worst pitch I’’ve ever seen in my life. And that Ronaldo goal was out of this world.

@@andrethethrashe Yeah, I also couldn't help noticing the awful condition of the pitch. Winter it was. And Russian winters are brghh. :)

he never trained either, 0 fitness training, 0 diet, 0 tactical training he just loved the game and played for fun