A reminder that even if Ronaldo wins the Euro, it won't enhance his legacy in any way.
Look at Platini, won every trophy at club level, scored 312 goals in 580 games as an attacking midfielder, 3x ballon d'or winner and absolutely dominated a European Championships, scoring 9 goals and winning the trophy with a MOTM performance in the final. Yet, he's rated behind Zidane as France's greatest ever player simply because of no WC.
the fact that he won 3 ballon d'ors and no one but hipsters give a fuck about him says it all.
Blake Fisher
Platini ruined his reputation after his playing career so many don't rate him that highly because they don't like him.
Isaiah Rogers
kek
Noah Ward
or maybe he's rated behind zidane because, let me guess, Zidane is the greatest footballer ever?
Brandon Rogers
i don't think so
Charles Gomez
0 international cups you don't get to talk johann
Adam Lee
>headgear canine.jpg
Nathan Ramirez
Maradona ruined the way we judge players. Have to win a WC "on your own" not to be great.
Jack Sanchez
if Balon hadn't been euro players only back then he woulda won zero.
Maradona would've gotten like 7-8 in a row.
Brayden Nelson
Balon d'Or pre-1995 are a fucking joke.
Igor Belanov won in 1986, litreally fucking who?
Brayden Phillips
Cannavaro winning the ballon d'or turned this trophy into complete farce
David Foster
And Owen winning didn't?
Jose Clark
FIFA taking over and turning the award into a glorified golden boot contest made it a farce
Isaiah Walker
Thanks for the laugh mate
Juan Sanchez
this
Easton Kelly
Cannavaro single handedly carried his fucking team to a WC as the driver of that bus Italy parked the whole tournament.
His performances were out of this world as a defender, he was prolly on coke the whole time desu.
Better than Penaldo and Chokessi taking turns these days because they get to stat-pad all year round against Rayo Vallecano and Osasuna.
Andrew Perez
>paying millions to FIFA to get assraped
Jose Roberts
Farce? A farce is when defenders and midfielders don't win ballon' d'or more often, because "muh goals". Xavi and Iniesta should've won one ballon d'or each.
Bentley Foster
You're l8 for your jsa sign on.
Henry Green
Still salty Pierre?
John Ross
can we stop this
>Romario carried Brazil in 94 >Zidade carried France in 98 >Ronaldo carried Brazil in 02 >Cannavaro carried Italy in 06, etc
John Peterson
>>Ronaldo carried Brazil in 02 This is false. That teams was amazing. They managed themselves. Only people who didn't watched the 02 WC say that.
Caleb Brown
To be honest Platini arrived at Mexico 86 as the biggest star in the world that was going to crown himself in that WC.
Maradona did what he did and outshined Platini
Brayden Davis
Joao Havelange, is that (You)?
Ian Harris
he 'carried' them the same way the others did, as in he was the main factor in their win and they wouldn't have got anywhere without him.
Zidane is the odd one out in that list because he didn't do shit in 98 apart from his 2 goals in the final.
Chase Jones
nah Cannavaro was god mode but he didn't single handedly carry anyone Buffon was out of this world, Zambrotta, Pirlo, Gattuso, even Materazzi and Grosso performed like they never had before it was the definition of a team effort
that said, saying Cannavaro didn't deserve the Ballon d'Or just because he's a defender is reatrded maybe Buffon deserved it a tad more
Carson Phillips
I still can't believe how they managed to stop the mighty attacks of Australia and Ukraine.
Jackson Perry
Same way they did stopping Germany and France
Adam Murphy
>Yet, he's rated behind Zidane as France's greatest ever player simply because of no WC.
But he's not
Sebastian Martin
Yes he is
Average fan now only knows Platini from the FIFA scandal and got fooled by Zidanes YouTube highlights into thinking he's the greatest
Mason Bailey
If Zidane had won with France in 06 he would be remembered as a GOAT desu
Christopher Reyes
underrated
Adam Johnson
Headbutt helped his legacy even more so people can say they would have won if he was there for penalties
Carter Thomas
You mean the average american customer?
Because in europe we know Platini scored 9 goals in 1984 and won 3 ballon d'or.
Ryan Scott
>he didn't do shit in 98 apart from his 2 goals in the final
Better than scoring a ton of goals against Eibar or Gijon, then disappearing in big games with your national team & losing 3 finals in a row.
Benjamin Reed
That's funny because I was going back and forth on here with some frogs when I said he wasn't a top 10 player
Kevin Young
tbf Shevchenko alone was more threatening than the entirety of the french offense
Zidane or not it would not have changed the result. He only missed 10 minutes of italian bus parking and letting Trezeguet taking the penalty against his Juve teammate, Buffon, was a bad idea.
Brody Cruz
cannavaro was marking trezeguet though well baggio carried italy in 1994 and we know hat that ended
Isaac Hernandez
Ronaldinho was better in that WC
William Lee
In 2002? Haha fuck off. It was the Ronaldo & Rivaldo show. The only game he out-shined them in was vs. England.
Ethan Torres
Ronaldo is already arguably the best Portuguese player of all time. Winning this Euro will cement that status, as he will be part of the first Portuguese team to win a major honour