After being declared fit following 10 months of rehabilitation from a torn ACL suffered back in February with AC Milan, the original Ronaldo has signed with Brazilian club Corinthians, much to the dismay of Flamengo who the 32 year old had been training with for the last couple of months.
This dude has had a ton of problems as of late, but in his prime, The Original Ronaldo was a beast. In his PSV and Barcelona days the dude was damn near unstoppable. So even though times have been tough for him, lets look back at some of his better days when he was doing damage on La Liga. After the jump, video of his time in the Eredivisie.
Ronaldo: happy, content, good humored. Zidane: hands clinched like a vise and with a wrong word still looks very capable of menace…
Courtesy Kickette
Becks took some time off the other day to pick the kids up from day care… Ho Hum… Gonna bring out the Phantom Drop and shut ‘ish down; Interesting how its just a day or two after we let you know about C. Ronaldo picking up a 2 door Bent… I think someone has been reading TOW!!!
full story here, pics and news thanks to the crew at popsugar.com. Even more on the story here, courtesy of the daily mail….
I.Shouldve.Played.Soccer
With the OG Ronaldo’s knee injury back on February 13th against Livorno, the Rio de Janeiro transvestite prostitue scandal and AC Milan calling time on his San Siro experience (who opted not to sign him to a new contract after wanting to wait and see if he could recover from his third major knee surgery at 31 years old), there was consistent speculation as to whether he’d ever play the game again.
Now the President of Brazilian side Flamengo, Marcio Braga has announced that an agreement is in place (yet nothing signed) for Il Fenomeno once he gets fit.
Via SkySports
Braga told Globoesporte newspaper: “We have a deal with the player’s agent. As soon as he has recovered from the injury, we will sit around a table and complete the paperwork.”
He added: “Flamengo’s medical staff are personally following his physical progress. Ronaldo will be this club’s top priority.”
I’ve gotta give credit to Braga for being smart enough to pounce the moment AC Milan hesitated. Even if Ronaldo never plays the game again, the fact that Braga is publicly backing his comeback and showing faith will do wonders for a man who was once the best player in the world.
Sometimes it’s extremely hard to imagine how difficult it is to go through a major injury like this, much less having to go through three of them.
Ever since Manchester United won the champions League in Moscow, there has been crazy speculation as to whether or not Ronaldo wqould leave the Red Devils for Real Madrid. The spectacle surrounding this saga has picked up speed since Portugal was bounced from Euro 2008 with CRon saying he would like to head to Madrid, but that he doesn’t have any control over what Manchester United choose to do.
This whole Ronaldo situation seems like it could be one of those very important decisions that has some pretty big implications in the future of soccer at the highest levels. Not only would the reported €100m transfer fee change the game, but how clubs deal with players under contract, and how these players fuel the fire of when they want to be sold leaves FIFA with some big issues to address. I know there have been players that were heavily coveted by teams, and that these teams did what they could to unsettle the players and try to pry them away from their teams. But I think there is so much attention on the three parties involved, and there is so much money at stake, that the way in which this all is dealt with can have long lasting implications. My guess is it will probably get ugly before it gets resolved, and somebody is definitely going to walk away pissed and feeling like they got screwed. I guess the big question is who will emerge as the big winner in all of this?
See this picture above? This should be the picture that every coach in the world shows his players because if it can happen to Ronaldo, it can happen to anyone.
Andres Luis Rebeiro Albertino is the transvestite prostitute who brought Ronaldo to the forefront of sexual tolerance after going to the police about his/her “almost” tryst in Rio.
Ronaldo has finally done his first interview on GloboTV and offered his sincerest apologies for his regrettable mistake.
image via NYTimes
