farewell press conference Ronaldo
"O time passes até para os Fenômenos . The clock is ticking for everyone, for us that henceforth we can only remember her deeds and for him that after closing the football player can decide whether to enjoy a golden retirement or a new career, that is unlikely to match the one just completed.
seems like yesterday, but have already been nearly 14 years since I've heard of for the first time. I was just a child who a few years ago was interested in football, and before my hair cut I was talking with the barber who enthusiastically told me he had just read in the paper that the 'Inter was going to buy the best player in the world .
Intrigued I turned around and read the Corriere dello Sport the news with photos of a 21 year old phenomenon exulted that the wearing of camiseta Blaugrana Barcelona .
From that moment I began to inquire about him, to buy newspapers, videotapes, to find out actually who this infamous Ronaldo both of which I had never heard of.
For me, as for many other guys of my generation, Ronnie has undoubtedly represented the stereotype of the player and for many has been synonymous with football.
Even non-Inter have been kidnapped from her great teeth, and unconsciously from the image of the cartoon character who did amazing things on the green rectangle.
The name of the phenomenon if it had won the 1996 Atlanta Olympics , but in fact the phenomenon was already seen that two years ago when he graduated World Champion with Brazil in 17 years and the PSV Eindhoven marked burst in the Eredivisie.
The landing in Barcelona has marked a kind of final consecration as with 34 goals in 37 Liga matches graduated Pichichi, even if it was not enough to win the league, won by Real Madrid's Fabio Capello .
In Cup Winners' Cup but they've got the Catalans won the trophy at the expense of PSG a network with just Ronaldo in the final.
His exploits could not take it in Serie A at the time could still boast a full on heavy label of best league in the world.
Moratti to the sound of billions could get out to competition and Inter he made a quantum leap as crazy Gigi Simoni found himself in his hands a rose that stood out, however, normal in her name.
head coach right now 'that he was different from the other mystery and made it to the rest of the team that he did not do, but it was the difference.
That championship ended in the aftermath of the controversial penalty not given for a foul at the Delle Alpi in striking area Iuliano against the phenomenon, but if Inter had come to play for the championship on merit was his only .
The Uefa Cup instead for attendees and once again his performance was a princely to stun Lazio in Paris, and still raise your hand (full or not) who is not excited to see on Youtube his acrobatic play in front of the Lazio defenders.
That night, at the age of 22 Ronaldo probably touched the peak of his career. He had took only 4 years to go from a talented young player of the planet.
From Brazil to Japan, passing through Africa, Asia there was no one who knew him, such was his fame.
star players ever, acclaimed character off the field, loved by women, has devoured life with a rate even higher than that which could to express in the field.
His first Ballon d'Or in 21 years was almost a duty having regard to its clear superiority over all others of his era.
He represented the ideal bridge between the 80 and the new millennium, a decade which is in football was poorer than that previously marked by the absolute class of the immense variety of Maradona and Zico, Platini, and that has begun to see a slow transformation of football (and players) that slowly began to be dominated by the physicality, and less by technology.
He was the perfect stereotype of the player at a time in which was preferred over that of saber fencing.
An alien can run a thousand per hour with the ball between his feet and dribble like few before him had been able to do.
as close to perfection you ever saw in those years. A scoring machine, but not all. His physical dominance and its explosive weapon made him unfit for the team, and was an asset for those football fans who still sought someone who could give him a thrill.
The repertoire had no equal, right, left, shot, acceleration and step short sprinter typical narrow and dribbling futsal, the children of a childhood spent kicking a ball in the favelas of Belo Horizonte .
The strongest field, the strongest in the various games, the most sought after by various brands ready to make bridges of gold just to have him as a testimonial.
We succeeded Pirelli who coined the famous "power is nothing without control," and nobody could be more appropriate for him to give credence to such a slogan.
Incredible, but true just 22 years oblivion was around the corner. The cursed night of the final World Cup in Paris was the beginning of an ordeal that has lasted for about 4 years.
In the second half injuries have limited his career. Even today, species are the images of his knee which crack Cup against Lazio in Italy.
Yet like a phoenix has managed to rise again in 2001/02 and looked like having to lead Inter to win the championship, but on the afternoon of May 5 and again scored one of the Lazio ugliest pages of his professional life.
tears on the bench were the picture of Inter's defeat, and even more of a Inter period that lasted until the advent of Calciopoli.
did not have the time to fall outside because there was a World Cup and his Brazil had an obligation to continue an interrupted conversation four years ago.
The Ri-Ro Ro- fielded by Scolari has made the dream Torcida green and gold and with that trio on the Selecao reached without too many worries and gained its fifth world title.
Ronnie in a month he recovered everything that had been denied by fate in previous years and with 8 goals (including 2 in the final) has been awarded the title of top scorer of the event, as a corollary of a journey perfect marked by 7 wins in 7 games.
The differences with Cuper and the desire to win pushed him to the Real Madrid which in December won his second Golden Ball for the first time and managed to win a championship until then had always escaped.
In the semi-finals of Champions, however, once again it was the Juventus (true nemesis) to make him cry and deny him a joy that he lived only four years later with the Milan shirt in Athens, but not full, as having moved in the winter session could not be deployed in pairs.
In between he lived a few difficult years in Madrid and became the leading scorer in World Cup history in bankruptcy shipping verdeoro in Germany in 2006 .
In his last year at Milan became a real event because of a knee injury which occurred randomly and so decided to close his career to return home.
He arrived at Corinthians has suddenly risen, and with him the Tima won the Paulistao 2009, thanks to his goals in the final against Santos . From then on nothing significant to report to the press conference today in which he announced his retirement from football player.
A withdrawal that leaves a little bitter taste in the mouth because we are now at the time of reckoning.
He won so much, it's true, but given his immense talent could win more . He played almost 4 years from Ronaldo (the real one) and won two Golden Balls, which are many for any player, but perhaps even for a few like him.
A class like his would have to be supported properly by a physicist worthy to indulge what he could deliver his mind and instead had to learn to live with the pain and its limitations that sometimes it have clipped wings.
He could fly and instead had to settle for too many times just to walk.
It was not the best player in history, but it was certainly unique and now hard to find someone who can pick his worthy witness.
Cristiano Ronaldo reminds him in some things, and perhaps Neymar could repeat those feats, but for now no one dare call it a phenomenon because of phenomena and Ronaldo was there and there will always and only a , and the beautiful (or sin) is that we will never know what might be strong.
0 comments:
Post a Comment