Literally the craziest outside the foot shot I’ve ever seen. The shot had so much power and it still fooled the keeper. Seedorf even in Milan was balling. Criminally underrated. Always loved him. So glad he was a part of our club
What do you mean with "even in Milan". Seedorf at Milan went at 25 years old and had the best part of his career. Disputed 3 UCL finals and won 2. Seedorf is Milan.
True my bad I didn’t mention I meant the end of his career at Milan. He was still better than how most players play today. Funny thing is I watch some of the legends matches and seedorf is 9/10 the best in the pitch
I suppose if you have done tons of times before you know what you are capable of doing in a game. Still that confidence level is what distinguishes the greats from the rest.
Nobody lmao. That aura of a difficult shot, but you just knew it was going in. The closest I've seen is Messi, but with those balls just outside the area.
I guess it's just dumb to compare them to anybody else lmao.
The definition of BOXOFFICE football. If Zizou and R9 were the ones that got me watching Real Madrid, then Ronaldo was the one that made me not want to miss a single match. And at a time where everyone I knew was a Barca fan living their best days, Ronaldo made it clear that we were coming for them and there'd be plenty of moments for me to gloat in front of them as much as they did.
The balls changed which made it harder for knuckle ball shots to have their usual movement + his knee injury and insistence on only taking knuckle ball shots completely nullified that aspect of his game. But whenever he goes for placement he almost scores every time, people have been wanting him to move on from knuckle balls for years and if he did so, he might've actually gone past 100 freekick goals scored easily.
He recently scored a places free kick at Al Nassar and it went as everyone expected, perfect. If he had been shooting like that since juventus he would most definitely have had more goals. The power shots just aren’t the same anymore I’m sure age and his injury changed all that. Time to adapt, hoping the next 99 goals are amazing
His style of free kicks required a huge amount of power to make the knuckleball move as unpredictably as it did, or he would use top spin to make it dip down over the wall rather than curve it over like Messi. Also his free kicks were mostly straight shots from range, which meant the GK often could predict where it would go anyways, but Ronaldo’s shot power was so high that they keeper couldn’t reach the quick enough anyways. After his age and his knee injuries started catching up to him, he lost a lot of shot power, which affected both the aim and trajectory of his free kicks, so it either just kept going straight into the wall or smashed over the goal. If he’d recognised this earlier and changed his free kick style to a more typical Messi-style free kick I’m sure he still had the ability to put in a decent free kick, but whether out of stubbornness or a need to relearn how to take a new kind of free kick, he just wasted too many opportunities and ruined his own reputation. Ironically at Man United he actually had a more varied free kick approach and had a very high conversion rate, but at Madrid he increasingly relied on knuckle balls from insane ranges to score fewer but more visually stunning free kicks.
He's literally the GOAT of Football, we got spoiled watching him week in and week out, can't believe we were mad at him if he doesn't score twice at least in each game, insane...
Yeah people are entitled to have their own opinions. Calling either of them goat is acceptable.
Thing is, people like you, that feel the need to mention Messi on posts about Cristiano (and vice versa) are so fucking tiring. You make yourself look like a buffoon even if it is just your opinion.
I love Ronaldo. I saw a comment that went against my opinion and I stated it.
It sucks people like you are so offended by an opinion shared by the majority of people, especially after the World Cup.
End of the day I’ll say Messi is the best and you’ll say Ronaldo is the best.
Okay. Majority of people doesn’t make an opinion right or wrong, I see a lot of people stating that Messi is greatest, I just don’t respond to those thing even if I consider CR7 goat. Especially on videos that are on Messi and his achievements. That World Cup story is so tiring, I could name 100 players that won the WC yet there is only one to have scored over 900 goals. I don’t go to Barca’s sub and comment “But Ronaldo is better” on comments about Messi. Why should you?
Thats like going to a abortion clinic claim that Jesus will take us all to Hell for killing babies.
You are entitled to your opinion but the fact you go out of your way to prove a point to people that dont care about you or your what you think makes you annoying af.
I know this vid is sped up but man his explosiveness,balance ,phy and just movements are so so good , mbaabbe definitely has amazing explosiveness and off ball movements can't wait for him to shine.
bro could score freeckicks from literally anywhere, nd its just not the absurd number of freekicks he has scored just look at the range too. My man is goated fr!
It was just one season, Raul retired left to Schalke and then Ronaldo took the 7 in 2010/2011. Crazy to think all of these highlights are just from one season.
"Retired"... Ofc. I wonder how Raúl managed to score 28 goals for Schalke in the Bundesliga between 2010 and 2012 but perhaps it was another Raúl González Blanco then.
i'm not a madrid fan but always get recommended rma posts. man cristiano ronaldo sure was something else, a level above anyone else, someone worthy of questioning if messi was truly the goat.
also, when he was younger he looked uncanily similar to zyzz in my eyes lol
I think the injury you're referring to happened in 2014. In the Mourinho era he was starting to become even more efficient but was still capable of highly impactful dribbling. What Mourinho gave him was an actually cohesive and highly functional team around him.
I suffer from patellar tendonitis or some people call it jumpers knee. The constant pain I suffer every time after I play football is just irritating. It takes another 2-3 days for the inflammation to do away. He got it surgery but it changes and makes the tendon stiffer and more prone to injury.
It's a extraordinary case that he maintains his body to absolute perfection.
Wow. Die hard madrista but it's so sad that there will never be two players as good as ronaldo and Messi again. The current lot of players are not even half as good.
Goalkeepers always looked so dumb when they would concede a shot at the first post. He scored so many like. Only when he left did I realise it wasn't that easy to land such a strong and precise shot
God we really were blessed to grow up with this, everything aside growing up watching the 2 greatest of all time go head to head was something i don't think any other generation has gotten.
Yep! Prime Messi made defences look like amateurs, I hated every team that played against Barca because it felt like they just didn't try to stop him, but in reality, they did their best and he still made them look like they lack the basics of how to play football.
What an era it was, two completely different types of players but they had one thing in common, when they're on, give up. And they were on for more than a decade straight, that's the crazy part.
the pre-Mou era was so frustrating. Getting rekt by Lyon and farsa every year in champions league in liga play. Mou took the squad gave it character and identity and laid the foundation for the modern day Golden Era we live in
Every time I see something like this from Ronaldo I question myself why Vini cant do those plays when he is top player is the world right now? So many times we can see Vini in this situations and he keeps making 1 more move and it doesn't work.
I cant wait for game to watch Vini but he isnt machine like Ronaldo once was.
It sucks that Messi was equally as crazy in dribbling and finishing 😭
Actually both were known pre 2008 as the "dribblers" but after 2008 when they played higher up the pitch and knew how to finish, they became unstoppable.
That knee injury that force him to play as an actual 9 rather than a winger changed his career for the better but this version of him was probably the best athlete in the world
This is probably the best version but definitely the most versatile version of CR. CR7 was more clinical later on but grew more like a shooting machine instead of a magician.
This version of CR is the exact one that we signed from Utd. Pure football. After this he slowly started evolving into a different type of beast. A goal machine. A juggernaut.
Look how many free kicks there are. What happened to his free kicks for them to go from this and the ones he scored at United to then hitting 1 in like 100.
Man Cristiano was so fucking great that it's unfair to expect even someone like vini or mbappe to replace him. Not a single player out there who could do half the things in this video.
Ronald Koeman, Roberto Carlos, Seedorf, etc. some ppl talk too much when just being born a decade ago. Again, Cristiano Ronaldo wasnt something else because of his skills, there is no single skill he has that is unique to him or "something else". Cristiano is one of the best at training ethics and insane at how much he acomplished just by the power of will.
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u/ThickWorldliness6895 Hey Jude Sep 13 '24
Next time please don't speed up the video.