Ronaldo to announce retirement Monday

Töpher · 06-06-2011 9:48pm

Kick off 01.50 on Wednesday morning, hopefully there'll be some good streams online.

Andre80Johnson · 07-06-2011 5:51pm

Transformation of Ronaldo through the years. Put well together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-JeMjChBBw

Marty McFly · 07-06-2011 5:55pm

Does anyone know will this be shown on tv?

Peyton Manning · 07-06-2011 6:22pm

New Nike ad is just brilliant, really does highlight how this kid from Brazil helped change the game and catapult the sport to a celebrity unheard of in football (with a little help from Nike themselves).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRJSgCd2Ydk

Oat23 · 07-06-2011 11:52pm

Bumpity bump

Streams
Potentially English
Portuguese
Spanish

Looking forward to it, hope he scores

Töpher · 08-06-2011 12:34am

Was going to lump a few quid on him to score just for the fun of it more than anything, but @ 1.36 I'll be avoiding it like the plague (he's only @ 6.50 to score a hat-trick! Would love to see that happen).

Rojiblancos · 08-06-2011 1:48am

Anyone have an english commentary link?

Oat23 · 08-06-2011 1:54am

The one I posted above is English.

Just on an Arabic channel.

DOC09UNAM · 08-06-2011 2:15am

Was gonna go to sleep... Have to watch this though!

Cypher_sounds · 08-06-2011 2:19am

Brasil cutting the Romanian defence to shreds at times, can see Ronaldo getting a goal when he comes on.

Yakult · 08-06-2011 2:19am

Cant wait for Ronaldo to come on. Havent seen him play in a long time.

DOC09UNAM · 08-06-2011 2:20am

Cracking free kick...

I assume this will be the match thread? :pac:

Yakult · 08-06-2011 2:21am

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

Cracking free kick...

I assume this will be the match thread? :pac:

Yeah, lower and it would have went in! Would have been a great goal!

I'd say so :P

Töpher · 08-06-2011 2:25am

Here we go...

DOC09UNAM · 08-06-2011 2:27am

The end of an era, hope he scores one.

Rojiblancos · 08-06-2011 2:30am

Would love to see him score, but considering his size:D I cant see it happening unless its a peno:(

Headshot · 08-06-2011 2:31am

Fair play to the Romanians going easy on him

Rojiblancos · 08-06-2011 2:31am

How didnt he score

Oat23 · 08-06-2011 2:31am

Aww

Yakult · 08-06-2011 2:31am

Nearly there

Insect Overlord · 08-06-2011 2:35am

At least he's playing with a smile on his face!

Headshot · 08-06-2011 2:37am

bloody keeper

Yakult · 08-06-2011 2:37am

Headshot wrote: »

bloody keeper

Let him score ffs :mad:

Cypher_sounds · 08-06-2011 2:38am

Pity the goalkeeper didnt read the script:mad:

Revolution9 · 08-06-2011 2:42am

What's the score lads? Brother has money on Brazil scoring in each half.

Yakult · 08-06-2011 2:43am

And there we have it. One of the greatest players to ever grace the pitch.

Headshot · 08-06-2011 2:43am

ah **** it, I really wanted him to score. Really sad sight to see one of the best of my generation to retire

he did it Internationally and domestically, just a unreal player

Rojiblancos · 08-06-2011 2:43am

1-0 HT now

Cypher_sounds · 08-06-2011 2:43am

And thats that, off to bed goodnight and god bless Ronaldo.

Vincent Vega · 08-06-2011 2:43am

1-0
half time just now

MisterAnarchy · 08-06-2011 2:46am

The Big Man could have had a hat trick on another night .
Pity he doesnt play another fifteen minutes at the start of the second half but his knees look like they are wrecked.

Töpher · 08-06-2011 2:53am

Calling it quits now myself and hitting the hay. A shame to see how much his body has faltered, he looked shattered, and was struggling even in the little time he had - what's almost worse is he managed to show that he still has the brain for it, taking up good positions and made some nice passes.

tolosenc · 08-06-2011 2:54am

Almost shed a tear. End of an era.

Peyton Manning · 08-06-2011 9:10am

Bravo Fenomeno, he's gone through enough and thoroughly deserves to enjoy his retirement. It was a big ask to even get 15 minutes out of him, as his knees are so bad these days. Thanks for the memories

Oat23 · 16-06-2011 9:20pm

Ronaldo will be playing against Austria Wein for a Luis Figo XI in a game to celebrate Austria Wein's 100 year anniversary tomorrow night at 7.30pm.

The complete Figo All Star Team:
Luis Figo (POR), Dejan Stanković (SRB), Yaya Toure (CDI), Ronaldo (BRA), Vitor Baia (POR), Serginho (BRA), Pierre van Hooijdonk (NED), Santiago Solari (ARG), Roque Junior (BRA), Ricardo (POR), Cafu (BRA), Giovane Elber (BRA), Vladimir Smicer (CZE), Pauleta (POR), Gheorghe Hagi (ROM), Luis Boa Morte (POR), Olivier Dacourt (FRA), Dimas (POR), Ivan Helguera (ESP), Lucas Radebe (RSA), Gheorghe Popescu (ROM), Ronald De Boer (NED), Patrick Vieira (FRA),
Fernando Couto (POR), Claudio Taffarel (BRA)

Looking forward to this one, lots of other players I've loved watching over the years in there!

ShaneU · 17-06-2011 5:51am

Not a bad team :pac:

Taffarel

Cafu

Helguera

Couto

Dimas

Figo

Stankovic

Vieira

Hagi

Ronaldo

Van Hooijdonk

GavRedKing · 17-06-2011 9:44am

ShaneU wrote: »

Not a bad team :pac:

Taffarel

Cafu
Helguera
Couto
Dimas

Figo
Stankovic
Vieira
Hagi

Ronaldo
Van Hooijdonk

Pretty decent team I guess. :eek: :pac:

Ebbs · 17-06-2011 1:59pm

ShaneU wrote: »

Not a bad team :pac:

Taffarel

Cafu
Helguera
Couto
Dimas

Figo
Stankovic
Vieira
Hagi

Ronaldo
Van Hooijdonk

In the spirit of this thread, terrible team....

Ronaldo

Ronaldo Ronaldo Ronaldo Ronaldo

Figo Ronaldo Ronaldo

Ronaldo Ronaldo Ronaldo

ColmDawson · 17-06-2011 8:16pm

Some lovely footwork from Ronaldo there to beat a defender.

Streams here.

Oat23 · 17-06-2011 8:58pm

The place would have exploded if Toni Polster scored that!

Nuri Sahin · 17-06-2011 9:19pm

Oatesy23 wrote: »

The place would have exploded if Toni Polster scored that!

The one off the bar wasn't it? Great strike

Oat23 · 17-06-2011 9:28pm

Yes Ade. He got one in the end

Fun to watch...but why was Craig David playing for Figo's team?

kfallon · 20-04-2015 10:34pm

He's still got it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqmalENEkXY

Apologies for digging this thread up but had no idea where to post it

Mr.Nice Guy · 21-04-2015 1:29am

Bloody hell, when I saw this thread I thought it was referring to Cristiano. :pac:

NIMAN · 21-04-2015 12:38pm

He used to be known as the Fat Ronaldo, now he's the Fat Fat Ronaldo.

Still a genius

Sacksian · 21-04-2015 12:49pm

Just looking at this video and the reactions from players and crowd, he must be one of the most universally loved footballers of all time (as well as being a phenomenon).

Not attempting a Ronaldo vs. Ronaldo segue but can't see Ronaldo ever being as popular as Ronaldo was when Ronaldo retired when Ronaldo does eventually retire. That might just be my own pro-Ronaldo bias though. Just never warmed to Ronaldo. Great athlete, but not in the same class as Ronaldo.

AdamD · 21-04-2015 12:56pm

That volley, its all just so effortless for him.

NIMAN · 21-04-2015 4:56pm

If he had not have got that bad knee, then I think we would be talking about the Fat Ronaldo in the same breath as Pele, Cruyff, Maradona, Puskas....and Messi, Thin Ronaldo.

elefant · 21-04-2015 4:59pm

NIMAN wrote: »

If he had not have got that bad knee, then I think we would be talking about the Fat Ronaldo in the same breath as Pele, Cruyff, Maradona, Puskas....and Messi, Thin Ronaldo.

Haha. The moniker 'Thin Ronaldo' should stick!

Oat23 · 21-04-2015 5:03pm

NIMAN wrote: »

If he had not have got that bad knee, then I think we would be talking about the Fat Ronaldo in the same breath as Pele, Cruyff, Maradona, Puskas....and Messi, Thin Ronaldo.

You're right.

But luckily he did have bad knees, and his terrific performances despite those problems proved he was better than the above :cool:

Ronaldo to announce retirement Monday

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