The Story of Life's Phenomenon, Ronaldo Luis Nazario Da Lima.

When talking about the row of Brazilian national team strikers in ancient times, I wonder who is still remembered by Footballoverz? There are lots of you know ... is it Bebeto? Pele? Ronaldo? Romario? or Zico?

Maybe footballoverz still remembers everything, you know, to all these players are the best strikers in their respective era that Brazil has ever had. But if we ask you more questions footballoverz. Approximately strikers who have brought Brazil to the world championship and have won the top scorer in the world cup and have been the world's best player.

Footballoverz would have guessed right away, yes, that's Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima. You all still remember this bare player, right?

Well on this occasion we will invite footballoverz to know the story of the Phenomene's life journey. Immediately, see the story as follows.

The birth of the megastar …… ..

Ronaldo is a Brazilian soccer player. His full name is Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima. He plays as an attacker or striker. Ronaldo was born on September 18, 1976 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. He was born by his father named Nelio Nazario de lima and his mother, Sonia dos santos barata. Ronaldo is number three.

Ronaldo comes from a poor family, to send Ronaldo to school, his parents have to work hard to earn money. In his childhood, Ronaldo was considered a prodigy because of his intelligence in academics. His progress and achievements at school only came when he was 11 years old, it happened because his parents decided to divorce. Ronaldo finally did not have anyone until then decided not to go to school anymore.

To make a living the only way he can do is play soccer on the streets in the suburbs of Rio de janeiro, that way he can get money little by little. since then he found a love of football

From there he began his career as a footballer, until finally Ronaldo was given the facility to play soccer on the field, he was able to show great skill as he had demonstrated when playing football on the streets.

His hard work has been bearing fruit, he was ogled by Brazilian legend Jairzinho, who at the time was a football coach and a talent scout. After seeing his potential, Jairzinho recommended Ronaldo to play at the Cruzeiro club, at that time Ronaldo was only 16 years old.

Playing at Cruzeiro ……

Ronaldo made his debut with Cruzeiro on 25 May 1993 against Caldense. Together with Cruzeiro he performed a beautiful football game with strong body balance, good ball control, drible okay and brilliant technique. In the same year Ronaldo also strengthened Brazil u-17 national team.

During his two years defending Cruzeiro he has scored 44 goals in 47 appearances in all competitions. Thanks to his ability he was dubbed by the Brazilian public as a 'new pele'. In 1994 he was also included in the list of Brazilian players in the world cup, although at that time Ronaldo was only a second tier player.

PSV recruited ...

The greatness of Ronaldo was able to attract the interest of clubs from the blue continent, until finally in the summer of 1994 or after the world cup was finished he was recruited by PSV Eindoven. 1994/95 season he was able to score 35 goals in 36 matches in all competitions. In that season he was also listed as the Eredivisie top scorer. But in his second season his performance declined, he was only able to score 19 goals from 21 appearances.

During his slick play at PSV, he was able to attract the interest of two big European clubs, Inter Milan and Barcelona. then Barcelona is the one who wants to pay a fee of 19.5 million dollars or around Rp 220 billion.

Together with EL Barca Ronaldo returned to playing beautiful football, he helped Barca win the Copa del Rey and the UEFA Cup. He also scored 47 goals in 49 matches in all competitions that season. At the age of 20 years in 1996 he won the best player in the world and made him the youngest player to win it.

In the 1997/98 season, Ronaldo decided to leave Spain and to anchor to Inter Milan, because there was no clarity about the contract extension in Barcelona. Inter recruited made Ronaldo as the world's most expensive player at the time. in 1997 he also won the title of world's best player for the second time. Together with a club based in Giuseppe Meaza, Ronaldo appeared until the 2001/02 season. he played quite well but he was often disturbed by injury problems that befell him.

Playing in the World Cup ...

n 1998 while playing at Inter, Ronaldo also became a mainstay of Brazil in the French World Cup. He brought Brazil to the final, but he failed to bring his country champion after falling 3-0 from the host and even he suffered a mysterious injury when colliding with Fabian Barthes, which made his performance decline afterwards.

Ronaldo again played for Brazil in the 2002 world cup, he was able to bring Brazil out as champions after bending Germany 2-0. He also won the award as a topksor with 8 goals. At the end of 2002 he was selected as the world's best player for the third time. You could say 2002 is the golden year for the phenomenon.

Strengthening Real Madrid ...

After the 2002 World Cup, he played for Real Madrid. His first season was brilliantly carried out by bringing in el la championship championship and he scored 30 goals in 44 matches in all competitions. He returned to look slick in the following seasons. Until its performance really declined in the 2006/07 season.

His feud with the coach Fabio Cappelo is considered the minimum minutes of playing Ronaldo. And in that season his career with Real Madrid finished. In total for 5 seasons defending los galacticos ronaldo contributed 104 goals from 177 appearances.

Join to AC MILAN .......

On January 18, 2007, Ronaldo was hooked to Ac Milan with a transfer fee of 8.05 million Euros. With I Rossoneri he made his debut against Livorno as a substitute. In his first season Ronaldo appeared 14 times and scored 7 goals. His second season was decorated with injuries, this is what makes ac milan reluctant to extend the contract of the mega star. In AC Milan Ronaldo only appeared 20 times with 9 goals scored in two seasons.

In an effort to heal his right knee injury, Ronaldo finally had the opportunity to join his childhood idol club, Flamengo. However, in the final seconds Ronaldo chose to join Flamengo's rival Corinthians on December 9, 2008, which provoked the anger of Flamengo fans.

Ronaldo's debut match with Corinthians took place on March 4, 2009 against Itumbria at the Copa do Brasil. four days later he scored his first goal for Corinthians against Palmeiras in the Brazilian Paulista League. Il Fenômeno helped Corinthians win the Paulista League by scoring 10 goals in 14 matches.

In February 2010 he signed a contract extension with Corinthians until the end of 2011 and planned to retire as a soccer player, but physically said otherwise, Ronaldo was unable to withstand the injury that continued to gnaw him and overweight and eventually retired from football on February 14, 2011.

His Personal Life ...

In his personal life. In 1997, Ronaldo met with Brazilian model and actress Susana Werner on the set of the Brazilian Malhação telenovela. when they acted together in three episodes. Although they never married, they began a long-term relationship and lived together in Milan until early 1999.

Then in April 1999, Ronaldo married Brazilian female soccer player Milene Domingues, and had a son named Ronald, born in Milan, on April 6, 2000. Their relationship lasted only four years. In 2005, Ronaldo was engaged to Brazilian model and MTV VJ Daniela Cicarelli, who was pregnant but suffered a miscarriage, the relationship took place only three months after their lavish marriage at the Château de Chantilly.

The figure of Ronaldo Luis Nazario De Lima will be remembered as the best footballer ever owned by Brazil and even the best footballer ever in the world, thanks to his actions on the gridiron he managed to present many trophies for the club and the national team. He also earned many individual degrees.

Now he is ranked second as the top scorer in the world cup with a collection of 15 goals, his goals in the world cup he created in France 1998, Korea-Japan 2002 and in Germany 2006. Together with Sellecao Ronaldo 98 appear and scored 62 goals

Now he is the president of la Liga club Real Valladolid after in 2018 bought a 51% ownership stake in Carlos Suarez.

That's the Story of Life's Phenomenon, Ronaldo Luis Nazario Da Lima.

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