The legendary Brazilian striker, Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima or familiarly known as Ronaldo is a dreaded penalty box predator in his time. Ronaldo is known to have a fast movement, able to shoot with both feet, agile, balanced, full of acceleration, and master a variety of techniques, such as elastico (shift the ball to the right and reverse quickly to the left), step over (rotate the right foot and left on top balls), and nutmeg ability.
Because of him, I like to watch the football matches. His individual speed and skill kept me always looking forward to his matches, both when playing for the club and for the Brazilian national team. He always looks amazing as well as horrible for his opponents.
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| Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima (image taken from scoopnest.com) |
Ronaldo The Phenomenon
Ronaldo started his football career in 1993 by strengthening the Cruzeiro team. He debuted at the age of 16 years against Caldense on May 25, 1993. Two seasons in Cruzeiro closed Ronaldo with a collection of 44 goals from 47 matches. He also led his club to the Copa do Brasil (1993) and Campeonato Mineiro (1994). |
| Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima (Image taken from lifebogger.com) |
PSV Eindhoven recruited the young star in 1994. It took just two seasons for Ronaldo to become the Dutch League's top scorer in 1995.
Ronaldo's sharpness has made FC Barcelona want to recruit him. The club called Blaugrana was willing to disburse 19.5 million US dollars (around Rp 256.8 billion) in 1996 to buy Ronaldo, which also became a transfer record at the time.
Ronaldo then scored 47 goals from 49 appearances. He won the La Liga top scorer in 1997. Ronaldo also brought Blaugrana into a winner in the Cup Winners (1997), Copa del Rey (1997), and Spanish Super Cup (1996).
The man who is identical with balding hair was crowned FIFA as World Player of the Year 1996 at the age of 20 years. This makes Ronaldo the recipient of the youngest prestigious award in the category.
The existence of Ronaldo in Barcelona only for one season. Internazionale Milan then bought Ronaldo. The club, headquartered in Giuseppe Meazza is not hesitant to break the record of transfer in the world by issuing a pocket of 27 million US dollars (approximately Rp 355.3 billion) in 1997.
Ronaldo was able to adapt quickly from the first season. He is 2nd in the Serie A scorer list with 25 goals. Ronaldo embraced the FIFA World Player of the Year title for the second time in 1997 and combined it with the Ballon d'Or trophy.
However, on 21 November 1999, Ronaldo suffered an injury in a Serie A match against Lecce. Ronaldo broke a tendon on the knee that made him surgery.
Ronaldo made his comeback on April 12, 2000. He played seven minutes in the first leg of the Coppa Italia final against Lazio before suffering a knee injury again for the second time.
This injury makes Ronaldo miss the entire 2000-2001 season.
After two operations and rehabilitation, Ronaldo returned to action in the 2002 World Cup to bring Brazil to the fifth World Cup title.
These achievements make Ronaldo the FIFA World Player of the Year award for the third time. He then moved to Real Madrid.
Italian journalist also dubbed Ronaldo as Il Fenomeno or The Phenomenon. Ronaldo left Inter by packing 59 goals from 99 matches.
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| Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima (Image taken from saulunglujan.wordpress.com) |
Ronaldo created the fastest goal in club history when facing Atletico Madrid. The goal was created when the timepiece just showed 15 seconds on 3 December 2003.
He also locked the title of top scorer in La Liga in 2004 with 25 goals.
Making Real madrid be a champions in La Liga (2003, 2007), Intercontinental Cup (2002), and Spanish Super Cup (2003) are his offerings for El Real.
Ronaldo then moved to AC Milan on January 18, 2007.
Just scoring 9 goals in 20 games for two seasons at the San Siro show Ronaldo no longer able to compete at the top level.
He eventually returned to Brazil to join Corinthians.
Ronaldo's inaugural season at Corinthians runs beautifully. The 23 goals scored he created made it easy for clubs to earn Campeonato Paulista (2009) and Copa do Brasil (2009).
However, on 14 February 2011 Ronaldo decided to retire because he could not bear to hold the recurrence injury that happened to him.
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Sources:
- Legenda: Ronaldo, Penguasa Dunia dengan Kekuatan Supernatural: https://juara.bolasport.com/read/ragam/sosok/153066-legenda.ronaldo.penguasa.dunia.dengan.kekuatan.supernatural/all
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