What a fantastic time for Italian football!
Some great goals from 94-96 era!
Some great goals from 94-96 era!
Serie A in the 90's
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Yeah cool era of football that was. I keep forgetting that Ronaldo Lima once played for Inter. Always associate him with Barca and Real.
Didn't expect it to be an hour long compilation
Should be well worth the watch though, when I'll have timeWhy call him ronaldo lima? That's like calling james ward-prouse, James Ouse. Weird
I really don't know.
What? That makes no sense
Ronaldo Lima differentiates him from Cristiano although in this context it wasn't need because people know which Ronaldo played for Inter.
80-90 best League in the world. No question about that.
Cool era of Italian football, even cooler era of eating an ice cream sundae whilst catching up on the Gazetta.
He also played for Milan and is loved by fans of all 4 clubs. Makes you wonder.
Used to love this show.
Wouldn't it be Ronaldo de Lima? Whenever I see people trying to differentiate I see Ronaldo Nazario, anyway.
Ronaldo, Baggio, Batistuta, Gazza... David Platt!
James Richardson is the thinking man's crumpet.
James Richardson is the thinking man's crumpet.
There's only one Ronaldo, all the others should be called something different, not O Fenomeno.
It was the top league and seemed really sexy when it came on channel 4 but by God a lot of the games were dull.
His full name is Ronaldo(first name) Luis(middle name) Nazario(father's family name) DA LIMA(mother's family name)
Like calling Cristiano Ronaldo Dos Santos Aveiro, Cristiano Eiro
It's the other way around in Brazil from other Latin countries. First surname is the mother's, on the basis you always know for a fact who the mother is.
Pretty much how I always felt. I enjoyed seeing the quality and tactical battles but I always preferred my football Spanish or English back then as I do now.
I did love Parma in that era though. Even bought that mint Champion top with the blue and yellow stripes
Early nineties was a golden era. Maradona, Careca, Van Basten, Rijkaard, Gullit, Matthaus, Klinsmann, Brehme, Hassler, Aldair, Mancini, Papin, Baggio, Signiori.
Great league back then.
Great league back then.
I used to love watching this every week, some great teams and players back then, James Richardson sitting in some cafe with the papers, the catchy intro tune posted above, Ibrahim Ba's hair
Ahh that brings back fond memories of James Richardson sat outside a cafe reading a paper on a Saturday and the live match after mum's roast on a sunday afternoon. This was the era of great tv like gamesmaster and the krypton factor.
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True. The Saturday morning highlight show worked so well in that respect, showing all the flashes of brilliance that were required to score goals in that defensively ruthless league. And James Richardson on top form, bringing the papers onto the show. It was a format that Sky went on to ran with for a long time with Revista and even Jimmy Hill's Sunday Supplement had some of its roots there.
Loved that music as a 13 year old. Always tuned into that on Channel 4.
It was unthinkable back then that Utd could ever reach AC Milans level. Lombardo, Gazza, Ravanaelli, Baggio, Batistuta, Mancini, Vialli, Van Basten all great to watch.
It was unthinkable back then that Utd could ever reach AC Milans level. Lombardo, Gazza, Ravanaelli, Baggio, Batistuta, Mancini, Vialli, Van Basten all great to watch.
Always used to think it was saying "GOAL LAZIO"
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Does it not? That's what I believed as a kid
How good was this Asprilla guy?
GolazoDoes it not? That's what I believed as a kid
mind blown.
Talk about Zeman and his court of miracles at Foggia
Everyone I had a kick around with used to think Golazo just meant goal. But of course means peach of a goal.
Ah, memories. Football Italia, Saint and Greavsie, Fantasy football and They think it's all over - all around the same period. Genuinely entertaining footie/sport based shows instead of the modern drivel we get now.
Used to record FI every week. Probably watched it more than MOTD to be honest, the quality was miles apart.
Used to record FI every week. Probably watched it more than MOTD to be honest, the quality was miles apart.
Baggio, Ince, Weah, Gascoigne, Platt, Zidane, Totti, Nesta, Recoba, Ronaldo.
Feck me, what a time to be getting into football.
Feck me, what a time to be getting into football.
This was the absolute pinnacle of world football. Serie A had more pulling power than Barca and Real at the time which is crazy to think about now. Have we ever had a 90s serie A draft?
Very good for Parma during a golden era for the club often scoring important goals. He was fairly deadly at international level also but a disappointment for Newcastle and a bit of a loon to boot. He never really recovered the Parma form of the mid 90's but he did score a hat-rick for Newcastle in a win over a Barca side consisting of Figo, Guardiola, Luis Enrique, Rivaldo etc;
This was childhood for me. Waking up on a weekend to hear the Golazo intro to Gazzetta and then listen to James Richardson deliver the best punditry going whilst watching Ronaldo, Zidane, Del Piero, etc all strutting their stuff in exotic sounding places (having been to several of them and seen the stadiums IRL they're dumps) and then the sheer terror of coming up against Juve in the CL or when we got Inter in 98/99 even though Ronaldo was unfit you still feared he was gonna turn up and destroy us.
As the article @GifLord posted (excellent site btw, reminds me of IBWM) suggests, there was no Twitter or Youtube so you only had Sunday mornings and the midday/afternoon match to go off. Football was a much more wondrous place back then when you didn't have instant access to everything a player does and is like now. It's staggering really how accessible world football has become nowadays and that's all for the better if you can't get enough of it but it does remove an awful lot of the magic that it used to have watching small bits of foreign football.
Being a 90's child I'm biased towards it but 90's football was so much better than it is now. Completely intangible reasons too.
Anyway, if anybody is interested in watching full matches involving 90's Serie A then head over to www.footballia.net because they're nearly all on there. Great for wasting a few hours seeing if old players really were as good as you think from Youtube highlights and rose tinted spectacles.
As the article @GifLord posted (excellent site btw, reminds me of IBWM) suggests, there was no Twitter or Youtube so you only had Sunday mornings and the midday/afternoon match to go off. Football was a much more wondrous place back then when you didn't have instant access to everything a player does and is like now. It's staggering really how accessible world football has become nowadays and that's all for the better if you can't get enough of it but it does remove an awful lot of the magic that it used to have watching small bits of foreign football.
Being a 90's child I'm biased towards it but 90's football was so much better than it is now. Completely intangible reasons too.
Anyway, if anybody is interested in watching full matches involving 90's Serie A then head over to www.footballia.net because they're nearly all on there. Great for wasting a few hours seeing if old players really were as good as you think from Youtube highlights and rose tinted spectacles.
I imagine it was better in the 80's when there were more teams in contention and bribery had less effect in some periods.
This.
Ronaldo = Ronaldo
CR7 = Cristiano Ronaldo
But that there are maybe 3 Ronaldos (Ronaldo, CR7, Ronaldinho) among the top 5-7 best footballers of all time makes you wonder how you should name your future children.
I think the examples given explaing why "Ronaldo Lima" is wrong are weird, calling him "Ronaldo Lima" is like saying "Marco Basten".
I think this is more of an English speaking thing, even among young people I see that in the Spanish-speaking world we usually say "Cristiano Ronaldo", or even "Cristiano". I rarely heard only "Ronaldo" when talking about CR7.
I think this is more of an English speaking thing, even among young people I see that in the Spanish-speaking world we usually say "Cristiano Ronaldo", or even "Cristiano". I rarely heard only "Ronaldo" when talking about CR7.
I tend to use greasy Cris whenever a conversation pops up with mates and I need to get across which Ronaldo I'm talking about.
Some say fat Ronaldo to differentiate them which I find massively disrespectful to him, whereas t'other one I can't stand so greasy Cris he shall remain.
Some say fat Ronaldo to differentiate them which I find massively disrespectful to him, whereas t'other one I can't stand so greasy Cris he shall remain.