>Cannavaro: "Ronaldo was always, always, the one player who stirred fear in me. He is the player of our generation. The phenomenon."
B-b-b-but m-muh messhit
B-b-b-but m-muh penaldo
Neither of them even begin to compare to him. Anyone who claims messhit or penaldo is the GOAT of this generation is too young to have seen the phenomenon play. If you're too young to have seen him play, your "opinion" is irrelevant.
Ronaldo(phenomenon) is the GOAT striker!
Fatnaldo is best naldo
>GOAT of this generation
Are Messi & Cristiano considered part of the same generation than Ronaldo?
yes
What kind of generation?
>Are Messi & Cristiano considered part of the same generation than Ronaldo?
No
>Are Messi & Cristiano considered part of the same generation than Ronaldo?
maybe
of footballers
>tfw lived long enough yo see metabolic disturbance ronald turn into le quotes man
lol, in a decade there will retards going "how do you know he was great? you didnt even see him play"
anyways, pic reminds me that we havent seen a WC match between Italy and Brazil in 24 years
No, dutch poster is retarded.
this generation:
1 Ronaldo
2 Messi
3 Zlatan
Previous generation
1 Zidane
2 Ronaldo
3 Figo
fucking idiot
>1 Ronaldo
>I rate Zidane
>Zidane
I respect Fatnaldo as much as the next person, but hold your horses there. Messi is individually superior on every comparable level.
Football changes, i would bet that most of the current players, mostly attackers wouldn't last that long if defenders still could kill players like they used to.
>if defenders still could kill players like they used to
I still can't sleep at night remembering all those deaths in football, oh boy
being this retarded.
You don't know how footballers was allowed to do more brutal tackles back in the day? Or didn't your parents have a television
Just imagine Ronaldo would have played for Barcelona (best team for many years,spanish NT + Messi) for all of his career
also
>individually superior
>in a teams sport
nigga pls, football changed a lot after Ronaldo
i've always rated fatnaldo
Best Barça team ever was the Robson-Mourinho one: Ronaldo, Figo, Guardiola, De la Pena, Luis Enrique
Guardiola's Meshit, Xavi, Iniesta was the most depressing thing I ever saw, a (failed) attempt to murder the game. Luis Enrique improved it a bit, but it still produces an abnormal amount of fall-a-sleep matches
>Zlatan
He's nowhere near the level of the other 2, but also there's nobody else in this generation at his level. Hence, 3rd place.
Yeah, now put el fenomeno in a stacked team all his career, without any major injuries
Fucking moron
>Ronaldo had a heartattack before the '98 final
>you now remember Barthez almost killing Ronaldo
>Zidane
Oh yes, poor Ronaldo had to play with scrubs like Zidane, Carlos, Makelele, Figo, Raul, Hierro, Beckham, Cannavaro etc. Imagine if he literally had world all-star team that money can buy around him... oh wait.
You can also imagine Messi having Ronaldinho like figure to spoonfeed him sitter after sitter in a World Cup final.
Such contemplations go both ways, m8.
Ronaldo was the Michael Jordan of football.
Big, strong, fast, but at the same time had balance, technique, spatial awareness, creativity, precision.
We aren't going to see a player like him any time soon.
...
>unironically implying the galacticos were a good team, let alone on par with pep's barca
nope, cr7 is an icky player that despite his looks doesn't use strength to bully past defenders
because you will get carded for looking at the goalline wrong these days
>Le system babby vs le dominate everywhere MAN
1 player has failed to achieve anything outside of one team, the other has seen virtual success almost everywhere he's played
>needing to dribble more to score is better
>strong
Did you miss the part where his knees literally exploded?
>One bad half, at what is likely towards the end of his career
M8 Messi is incredible and will probably go down as the GOAT, but Raonldo's peak was probably the best there ever was for a #9.
You could argue that this current argentina team is a galatico's of their own. Bunch of amazing players who aren't playing as well as they should together
>the other has seen virtual success almost everywhere he's played
Remind me how many Champions League titles did he win with all those teams, m9 ;^)
>inb4 it's a team trophy
So is World Cup, Trevor.
rare
>he rates cannavarro
>Messi is incredible and will probably go down as the GOAT
We should unironically permaban people who post shit like this
tsuman is the GOAT through and through
>the true cannavaro
>the other has seen virtual success almost everywhere he's played
>1 CL and 1 league title
kek
>One bad half, at what is likely towards the end of his career
Mate, I'm only illustrating that he too had objective advantages around him (what other player had the luxury to miss 3 sitters in ONE half of a World Cup final?) some people here fail to mention but don't forget to say Messi played in a super team.
I feel sorry for Ronaldinho having to play with this hack.
>what other player had the luxury to miss 3 sitters in ONE half of a World Cup final?
Not Messi's teammates, that's for sure. Did he even deliver a single assist?
christ, this was 2002 and he already looks like a fat gimp with a horrible 1st touch
Funny how now he owns e-sports teams.
Neymar doing the same.
>cr7 is strong meme
He may train a lot but he hardly ever uses his strength. Messi has shown many more times that he can out muscle guys
didn't Messi humiliate Cannavaro like no other?
he's just saying this because he's still butthurt
>1 Ronaldo
>2 Ronaldo
u sure the dutch is retardo?
The frenchs (Thuram, Desailly) talking about Ronaldo before having him killed for the final:
>didn't Messi humiliate Cannavaro like no other?
he did lol. this is 19 year old Messi vs Cannavaro in his Ballon d'Or year
>geriatric cannavaro
Sure
is that eto who missed that chance? what the fuck
he nutmegged him once. And he's not been the first or the only one.but what about the rest of the game or the other times they played each other?
there is a reason that's the only thing messi fanboys post regarding cannavaro.
But it's akin to posting messi missing a penalty or a sitter and claiming he's trash.
Eidur Gudjohnsen
>zidane
The next time they played each other Barcelona won 2-0 with Messi scoring and the time after that Barcelona won 2-6 with Messi scoring twice.
well that explains a lot
Iniesta>Zidane
anyoneMakelele
Fiberglass>Figo
Henry>Raul
Xavi>>>Beckham
Puyol=Cannavaro (more overrated than beckham, at least puyol knew he was shit)
It was an expensive team, nothing more
No no no m8 how dare you post that? Dont you know that Messi is the only player that ever dribbled Cannavaro? He humiliated him like no other
>19 year old Messi
>Ronaldo at his absolute best
kek, Ronaldo was never better than on that video. Messi has gotten 10 times better since that game.
>Fiberglass>Figo
Well...
nah
Iniesta's inability to regularly score is such a major weakness for an attacking player, he's just lucky to have played for Barca where Messi scores everything or Spain back when they conceded nothing
RCarlos was obviously a great player and a better tackler than the current classico leftbacks
Busquets = Makelele, different strengths, Makelele would never let himself be as shit as Sergio right now
Figo no more injury prone than Iniesta
Henry peaked two years before he was at Barca, Raul overlapped a year or so of his good phase with fatty
how do you do that thing where you cut right into them and you know its going to go through their legs or get by them, is it some kind of spatial sense or intuition, i was never able to do that, or stepovers
last 100 years of footballers
True, but there wer two nice confederation cup games and one hyped friendly.
Romario was better than Ronaldo
He looked clueless in that 2-6 game.
>messi beat the other defenders
>cannavaro is the only one having a clue to what is happening and rushing to try to stop it
Maybe because he faced Ronaldo way more times than Messi and Cristiano? Maybe because he's a centreback and he's more focused on centreforwards than wingers? Maybe because he retired from pro football in 2010 and his peak was closer to Ronaldo's peak than Messi and Cristiano's? Maybe it's just nostalgia speaking? Maybe because he's Italian and Ronaldo is the only one of the 3 that has played in Serie A?
It's not about individuals, niggers. It's about the teams
Or maybe it's because the player that gave him the most trouble during his career is Ronaldo?
Occam's razor m8
But he's talking about opponents
Yes?
Unless he fears his teammates or was talking about trainings, he's pretty much talking about opponents
And Ronaldo was one of his opponents. Apparently the toughest he met too
Come on guys.
He literally said "the player of our generation".
He's not comparing him with Penaldo or Messi.
It gets insctintive, lots of street football+ fut sal where dribbles make the king, you get to the point where seeing open legs mean an invitation to get trough, and well, stepovers are easy, what takes work is doing these insctintively
the true star here is Ronaldinho jesus fuck he was talented
is it bad that i recognise this music form those crazy videos made by toys in japan?
>Messi
Robben is miles above Zlatan
>Fatnaldo used to be the role model for all of us
>We all wanted to be like him, play football and score like him
>When we were thinking about the beauty of Brazilian football and their striking potential, we were thinking about Ronaldo and noone else
One injury ended it all
Nesta and Maldini have both said similar when it comes to Ronaldo. Buffon also.
Cannavaro is one of the most overrated players ever. On week to week basis, he wasn't any better than current defenders like Godin, Pique, Bonucci or Boateng.
The only reason he's remembered as an all time great defender is one World Cup and a joke of a Ballon dor
Holy shit, I grew a fedora just from reading this.
>Ronaldo
>Played at shit clubs half his career
>Messi
>Played at one if not the most dominating club for his entire career
Ronaldos stats are way better than messhits for that reason
fatnaldo is just a shit mario götze
>Cannavaro
>Nesta
>Maldini
>Buffon
Back when Serie A was awesome. It was when he was in his prime.
2nd was consecutive and 3rd was when it was all already over for him anyways
>Scoring the World Cup winning goals after their prime (which came really early for Götze tßh), then getting fat and turning to shit.
Pretty accurate
the 2nd was before 2002
and yes, the 3rd was the end
His first came at PSV. Then of course the two at Inter.
It's crazy how it took 3 major knee injuries to drop him to the level of other elite forwards like Shevchenko and Henry. Just one knee injury is enough to end most top players career at a world class level.
>one World Cup
Please, Fabio always turned God mode when he played for Italy, his WC98 and Euro00 performances are arguably even better than the 06 one
That said, it's true that he was very inconsinsten at club level, but an in form Cannavaro was on par with Nesta and Maldini if not better
>Fabio always turned God mode when he played for Italy, his WC98 and Euro00 performances are arguably even better than the 06 one
That's true, but Italy lost so no one would remember him this way without 2006.
1. Pele
2. Maradona
3. Messi
4. Cruyff
5. Beckenbauer
6. Ronaldo (Luiz)
7. Di Stefano
8. Puskas
9. Zidane
10. Garrincha
This is the final list compiled by many football intellectuals.
2005-2020
1. Messi
2. Tsunaldo
3. Iniesta/Suarez
1990-2005
1. Ronaldo
2. Romario
3. Zidane/Ronaldinho
Swap Iniesta and Romario for Xavi and Maldini
Defenders are miles better now a days, a good defender in the 90s was a star now a days there's so many good defenders
>Godin
>Pique
>Ramos
>Boateng
>Hummels
>Bonucci
>Chiellini
>Koscielny
>Kompany
etc.