Great post! The American dream narrative is really on point. Many relate to that. Ironically, it is a bit similar to Mourinho's narrative. His fans loved the personality and what he represented more than the football. The football was usually justified or even used to taunt opponents.
Terrible take. Ronaldo used to waltz past players for fun.
Ronaldo has no respect for anyone or anywhere but himself.
He didn't though. Most of his waltz, stepovers and tricks were designed to set up a nice little backpass without getting past anyone. Total showboat. He did dribble, but not to the extent your rosetinted memory has it.
Yeah his career high for dribbles per 90 mins is 4.2 and even by 2009, he was all the way down to 2 dribbles per match, which is as pedestrian as can be.He didn't though. Most of his waltz, stepovers and tricks were designed to set up a nice little backpass without getting past anyone. Total showboat. He did dribble, but not to the extent your rosetinted memory has it.
He didn't though. Most of his waltz, stepovers and tricks were designed to set up a nice little backpass without getting past anyone. Total showboat. He did dribble, but not to the extent your rosetinted memory has it.
Agreed. Plus a lot of what we think is dribbling doesn’t even count towards the stat.
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I’m not saying he never dribbled, mate. He was a very exciting young player though. I’m sure you could find a full hour of juicy dribbles from him on internett if you wanted to without proving me wrong.
Kick and run counts as a dribble if it gets you past a player.
Ok then.
But it's nowhere near the elites (Messi is the reference point), doing more than 6 dribbles a match at several points.
Pretty much. From2006-07 onwards, he only his best season was 3 dribbles a game. It isn't insignificant but nowhere near the best dribblers of this generation.He didn't though. Most of his waltz, stepovers and tricks were designed to set up a nice little backpass without getting past anyone. Total showboat. He did dribble, but not to the extent your rosetinted memory has it.
Stop with the random numbers nonsense please
You do realize that you're listing cumulative stats here, don't you?
I’m posting actual numbers that have context that’s not hiding behind Messi…and the elites.You do realize that you're listing cumulative stats here, don't you?
Instead of lashing out, wipe those tears and atleast look at the right stats if you're going to embarrass yourself responding.
I'm waiting for you to tell me how posting cumulative totals fine 2006 "disproves" what I said, genius.
The actual data says that he only hit 3 dribbles a match once since 2006-2007. The elites were hitting 5 to 6 dribbles a game for multiple seasons. So yes, the evidence points that he lagged behind them.
You either didn’t watch him or are selecting a few memories. He would definitely waltz past players his chop alone was stunning back in the day.He didn't though. Most of his waltz, stepovers and tricks were designed to set up a nice little backpass without getting past anyone. Total showboat. He did dribble, but not to the extent your rosetinted memory has it.
I agree the poster you replied to hasn't factored in longevity with cumulative stats, especially since 2006, anyone playing for 16 years is naturally going to feature higher. I do get what some posters are saying he certainly wasn't just a kick and run merchant, maybe a tier or two below the elite dribblers of the gameYou do realize that you're listing cumulative stats here, don't you?
Instead of lashing out, wipe those tears and atleast look at the right stats if you're going to embarrass yourself responding.
I'm waiting for you to tell me how posting cumulative totals since 2006 "disproves" what I said, genius.
Yeah, he's in the middle ground between the two. Just find it funny to see a few of his cult followers take umbrage with how inaccurate it is to call him a kick and run merchant, while engaging in the same revisionist history and trying put him with the best dribblers of the last generation when the stats show that he's not in that tier.
Indeed.
Isn’t averaging out dribbles per game an accumulative stat as well though? A stat that falls away when he aged and changed his game for the past 6/7 years?!
Who have more dribbles than Ronaldo per 90 mins since 2006-2007?
Exactly this. He's become a joke.
Robben, inesta.
Where can I see the list?
Dont have a pr 90. Just taken from whoscored. A lot of younger players than Ronaldo there have a higher total conpleted dribbles(also Ronaldo has the lowest completed dribble succesrate) so its not really a surprsie they averaged more dribbles pr game.
But the chop is a kind of kick and run... A trickier one though, but still.
Adama Toure.
He wasn't Messi but he was a good dribbler, a damn good one. He was a trickster when he first got here, he even overdid it with the stepovers. He absolutely beat players for fun. Back then there were still questions about their effectiveness against tougher defenders but apart from that he was definitely taking and beating his man. It still thrived in a time where wide players were more midfielders than forwards.He didn't though. Most of his waltz, stepovers and tricks were designed to set up a nice little backpass without getting past anyone. Total showboat. He did dribble, but not to the extent your rosetinted memory has it.
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The same crowds who hung on his every move prior, he really fecked up
Haven't ever seen a player single handedly light their twilight and part of their legacy on fire and piss away so much built up goodwill the way he did in the last half of this year...
The fact all of it was done only to end up with zero offers around Europe and having to go to fecking Saudi Arabia as a result makes it one of the stupidest decisions ever from such a high profile athlete.
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Remove that name on the shirt and mosiac the face, you would have thought it was Lukaku
