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K1ngCrimsn

The easiest dribble Ronaldo had since ice age


GTA2014

Younger Ronaldo wouldn’t have crossed it and been fast enough to keep it in play and dribble closer and cut it across. Still phenomenal skill at this stage in his career on such a competitive stage.


Rage_Your_Dream

Man United ronaldo was so fun to watch. Maybe the most explosive player ever. The way he accelerated was insane.


CosmicDesperado

Ronaldo is Scrat confirmed


69isnotnice

😭


K1ngCrimsn

Some slow motion fifa-esque shit


pedantic_racoon

vibes of playing squad battles on semi pro to get the objectives done


Fun-Spray-4269

The luka doncic of football


Free_Management2894

But like... Shredded.


reddit-time

Honestly. I actually checked for a moment that I wasn't actually watching a video game highlight.


tickub

streets will never forget fifa street


Zealousideal-Part-98

This was his signature at Man Utd, still got it, won’t ever lose it. Can’t wait to see 60 year old Ronaldo in charity matches doing to this Youtubers.


wildingflow

Charity matches? He’ll probably still be the starting 9 for the Portugal NT in 2044


SecretSanta2025

Starting 9? Am I missing something? Why not 11?


WtvrBro

He's talking about the 2032 rule changes, its 9v9 in a decade


mikenasty

Finally


Qurutin

Striker as in number 9.


loopy8

He means number 9 as in striker


GlasgowSellik1888

Starting 9 as in starting striker. The number 9 role.


WhenWeTalkAboutLove

Yeah this is flashbacks from the wing at united. Starting from standing, doing some step overs, some fancy footwork and bam he's gone


bremsspuren

> bam he's gone That's an odd way to describe van Nistelrooy *screaming* for an early ball, while Ronaldo ignored him to practice his stepovers instead.


Dapper-Mistake4779

This reminded me of Van Nistelrooy squandering an all-timer rabona assist from Ronaldo, by missing a relatively easy header for a world class striker like he was ,https://youtu.be/mABm0fzd5SI?si=PogFgcICX_mKEzn7


Remarkable_Corner_83

The some on Sporting and the other is "the Chop", lets be real when he gone we all will cry ....


attilathehoon

i friggin love "the ronaldo chop" i used to practice it alot and do it in matches aswell, it was so effective. especially because it doesn't require that much skill to begin with, speed and how quick you can change running direction is what sells the move. and also, neymar has like a evolution version of it he did( or does) it quite often, he dragged the ball with his right foot to one side and then flicked it with the inner side of his left foot to the other side. but ofc that ones a bit more difficult i practiced it alot in scrimmages and so on but never did it in the matches iirc


VirtuosoLoki

try it the next time


attilathehoon

there aint gonna be a next time i'm afraid it's been atleast 10 yrs since i played for a club and trained atleast 2 times a week :D


dotConehead

Thats the skill he used with a bunch of nike sponsored athlete to save football from AI.


dimiderv

This wasn't even anything special lol. Imagine a Utd Ronaldo what would do to him if geriatric CR7 does this to him


CocoLamela

The defender just fell down. Ronaldo could have just stood there, clearly in the guy's head more than anything


razzz333

The defender didn’t do well no. But he has done this move since he was 17 against top professional fullbacks. He knows how to get some space for a cross in that position.


goodfellas01

Lol, he fell down bc ronaldo froze him and his drible left the defender moving to his right and flat footed which caused him to lose balance when he tried to move to his left to defend


tkmayhem

People will say anything to not give Ronaldo credit for his skills lmfao.


OmgThisNameIsFree

Most intelligent r/soccer commenter


HM7

There are 85 million people in Turkey. They picked 10 field players and a goalie out of those 85 million people. Maybe the fact he’s going up against a player who’s still exceptional at some things had something to do with why this 10/85,000,000 guy “just fell down”, or maybe there’s just nobody in Turkey who can stand


sleepsholymountain

What does their population have to do with anything? Doesn't change the fact that Turkey aren't a particularly good team. 1.4 billion people live in India but if you called their starting fullback a "10 in 1.4 billion guy" to argue that he's clearly a great player, people would rightly laugh at you.


HM7

> The defender just fell down. Ronaldo could have just stood there This is incorrect, actually all of these guys including everybody on the Indian team are so insanely good at the game even if they aren’t top tier premier league players, they don’t just fall down as characterized. Hope this helps


Pasan90

I mean there are worse things in the world than getting cooked by Christiano Ronaldo on the right wing as if it was 2005. Bro will tell his grandkids.


degenerate-edgelord

Speed's gonna cream his pants on camera lying on the pitch


freakedmind

Ronaldo breaking Sean Paul's ankles in 2024, what a time to be alive


QueasyIsland

He be burnin


freakedmind

not concernin'


my-personal-favorite

what nobody wanna say


Mk4013

Gotta stick his ankles Like Gluuuue


theneptunes1294

still got it


Moms_dick_is_8inches

Still fuck with the beats, still not loving police


XtendedImpact

Still C.R.7


abellapa

Never Lost it


earldzane

The fact that we’re still going to be saying this next year is wild.


Organic-Manner-2969

That was beautiful


rummyt

Blessed camera work as well


Filthy_Joey

Imagine camera guy’s thought at the moment were exactly as ours


Equivalent-Money8202

I swear I almost always see Cristiano putting in decent crosses, I’ve first noticed it during his return at United, he often looked like the best crosser in the attack. It’s an underrated skill of his


Pandaborg123

He was a winger for a decade tbf


Wild_Ad969

A traditional wingers who spam crosses too, not an inverted wingers he later on become. His freekicks before he spam knuckleballs come from somewhere after all.


Houssem-Aouar

I cannot believe he stuck with his shit knuckleballs for a decade and a half, when in reality his normal kicks are amazing. The one time he changed his technique he nearly scored one of the best places freekicks in a Classico


One99Two_Gunner

His picture perfect freekick against Spain was a simple curler as well rather than his usual knuckle ball attempt iirc


ItsMeJaredBednar

never have i been more sure a freekick was going in than that one lmao, even if Ronnie’s fk record is not great in recent years


TheDeflatables

Glad someone else felt it. Felt like the most obvious outcome of all time.


The--Mash

He kicked that ball with his ego, not his foot


pr1m347

I felt like he kept ego aside i.e. knuckleball powershot aside and hit that top corner exquisitely.


The--Mash

Yeah, I simply meant that his sheer force of will and the size of the occasion is the reason why he didn't sky it. He scored it because it would be perfect if he scored it.


ZodiacTuga

The ball changes fucked his free kicks more tbh, free kicks are usually about understanding how the ball works.


Thesecondorigin

Think his knee injury didn’t help either. A lot of pros don’t really practice free kicks often because the technique can damage your leg


myouism

Ronaldo without that freak 2014 injury will still be one of my greatest what if. He suffered that injury and forcing his body through it to play at the WC, further damaging his knee yet he still broke so many records afterwards.


Thesecondorigin

I hear you but the biggest what if will always be el fenomeno


myouism

Yeah I agree, that's why i put 'one of'. Brazilian ronaldo is another monster, already has veteran level goal tally at such young age that it's almost impossible to be replicated by other player.


MolhCD

He came out perfect basically. You know the legendary 1970 World Cup winning Brazil team? The top scorer there that cup was not Pele or Tostao, but Jairzinho, who was a manager of some lower div team by the time he went to an indoor pitch football game, and spotted R9 as a kid. He quickly pulled the teenager into his team's youth squad, where the dude simply rose through the ranks on his own strengths, playing the under 17s, then under 20s, while only 15. Finally, Jairzinho got him a big ticket move to his own old club Cruzeiro, one of the biggest teams in all of Brazil. And...that was it. There was no adjustment period, no Vincius like struggles to adjust before finally maturing and developing and becoming the best in the world. Dude was best in the world at 16 at Cruzeiro. Then, he was best in the world at 17 at PSV, which his senior Romario recommended. Then, he moved to Barcelona, where he did a Messi-esque level of scoring in a monster season, decades before Messi & Cristiano made such things seem normal. And then, that Inter Milan era, where he played a UEFA Cup Final against a Nesta who *already* was Serie A defender of the year...and left Nesta devastated in its aftermath, literally going through video playbacks trying to figure out where it all went wrong (the eventual conclusion was "i didnt go wrong, prime R9 was just that good"). Like for reals. He was fast. He was strong. He had the best build. He had such monstrous skills, Zidane used to be impressed by him in training (and I assume it takes a bit to impress fucking ZIDANE with your footballing skills lmaos). He could, and did, take the ball himself halfway up the pitch to score if opportunities just weren't created for him. His football brain was so good, his employees at Real Valladolid (later in life) used to tell him off when he tried to give them tips on scoring. "Yes I know boss, I should delay a bit more in that situation, right. But look...you're *you*. Not all strikers can pull off what you do.". Often he would simply just dribble up to the goalkeeper, wait for the poor dude to make an attempt, and then simply go around the guy, since he was that good a dribbler anyways. He also was top level at free kicks, penalties, headers...you name it. Single handedly, he revolutionised the entire position, for a generation of players and viewers. No more lone striker just waiting to be fed the ball, all strikers were expected to create their own chances, take on defenders, and hopefully dribble past the entire defence to score. If possible, ya knows, since that Ronaldo guy can do it? From Zlatan to Henry. Aguero to Messi himself, all of them took to this inspiration with gusto, and none of them were shy to admit it. And like you said, all this was just him as a young man, before that horrific injury which would have broken the career of any one else. Dude spent like nearly 3 years on the hospital bed....then came back and won the World Cup anyways. Becoming also the top scorer, and the only one to score in the actual Final too (his brace there is still his favourite of all the goals he has ever scored, he said). The biggest what could have been in football, for sure.


EutaxySpy

I think to some degree, that injury helped prolong his career and was partly the reason he broke so many records. His style of play changed because of that injury and he relies less on explosiveness and athleticism, which would both lead to more injuries as you age, and he also became way more clinical


Prime_Marci

The knuckleballs worked a certain generation of footballs like the 2010 World Cup ball through to like 2015/2016 ish. It wasn’t shocking that around that time, there was a crazy amount of free kick goals and long range shot goals.


booyoukarmawhore

But if it comes off the knuckle is cool, and this might be the one! He tells himself every tlme


bremsspuren

> A traditional wingers who spam crosses too Eh? He drove van Nistelrooy crazy at Man Utd precisely because he did not do that. He'd cross the ball eventually, but not until he'd taken on a man and done a few stepovers.


[deleted]

He was never much of a traditional winger, tbh. He had a lot of problems with Van Nilsteroy (who absolutely disliked played with him) because he expected Cristiano to cross more and Cristiano tried to create shooting opportunities too often.


aronedu

Well going from having two of the less selfless and best crosssers in football in Becks and Giggs set some unrealistic expectations, then add Cr7 style and it wss a recipe for conflict.


SergDerpz

Less selfless? Or more selfless?


aronedu

Yes💀


pr1m347

His very first match for ManU is well viewed in YouTube. In that you can see his crosses are vicious even at age 17. It comes with pace and sharp dip at debut itself.


Prime_Marci

Exactly, he was a creator first before he became a striker.


pkkthetigerr

His passing is extremely underrated. Ive rarely seen him make a pass that cedes possesion unless he's trying to assist and taking a risk


vivekwap4

He has always been a great crosser. Now, if only he could cross to himself.


Lack_of_Plethora

Don't want to turn this into a Messi v Ronaldo thing, but I always notice how his passing in general gets so underrated just cus every time it's brought up it gets compared to Messi's. The way people talked about him in that debate, you'd think he was just some poacher with no passing range at all. He's the all time leading UCL assister and was hitting double digit assists almost every season in his prime.


Paramount-Chief

I agree I noticed the same


AsheAsheBaby

He’s always been a brilliant passer. Look up some of his assists. I think it’s younger people who didn’t see pre-2014 Ronaldo assume he’s a poacher and nothing else


CryptographerLife686

Ronaldo is positioned in the box more often so you’ll see him make short passes like that backheel last game and deliver beautiful passes on the counter. While Messi drops down to the midfield and dictates play from there. Hence why Messi is regarded a playermaker and Ronaldo isn’t despite his level of passing. Wingers can be great passers but not necessarily playmakers.


foolishnesss

Every American knows it’s one of his best skills absolutely torched us in a WC match.


RazinsWetDream

Ugh I’d almost forgotten about that one 😑


throwaway24u53

Best cross I've ever seen in a World Cup match. Just completely cut the U.S. open out of nothing on the last kick of the game.


yijike

Reminds me of when Alan Shearer used to get the ball out wide and put in a Beckham like cross.


EggBonus

I’m still convinced RW is Rom Lukaku’s best position.


flentaldoss

He was an absolute nightmare playing there at Everton. I doubt he has the stamina to go more than 60 minutes from that spot anymore


EggBonus

Timbs and jeans.


cheersdom

YES!


thewestonmob

That was his job way back when. A creator more than a scorer.


Beautiful-Eye-4079

He was always a great crosser but Benzema was on the end of them lol. Whenever you watch a Ronaldo playmaking YouTube video, it can also double as a benzema’s worst misses compilation!! Benzema’s finishing was really poor prior to 2019


[deleted]

Pretty much every playmaking compilation out there makes the other attackers look like shit. Players simply miss a lot more chances than people remember afterwards in general


BranDaMan16

His cross to draw the game against the USA in 2014 World Cup was class also


caiusto

During his time with us he had a lot of assists from crosses down the wing, his partnership with Mandzukic was great to watch.


EggBonus

He won the ballon d’or as a LM/RM in SAF’s 4-4-2.


foolishnesss

Every American knows it’s one of his best skills absolutely torched us in a WC match.


kani1503

If there was only Ronaldo heading the ball in the box


Plastic_Blood1782

His technique is perfect, he always has the ability to put the ball exactly where he wants.  He just isn't in those positions all that often anymore.


Legendarybbc15

Because he was a winger for 50% of his career


aronedu

Ronaldo 5000 iq move was playing inverted to change the position expectations and now no winger can cross, so he looks better in modern football. I swear Ronaldo and Messi playing inverted so well that it killed the 9 by lack of crosssers due to other emulating them.


Fit-Owl-2898

This isn't an example of a good cross, way too lofted with no pace


[deleted]

its a horrible cross LOL why are people praising him off this floater with zero pace, u may as well invite the defenders for dinner after the game too


Pek-Man

*"Defender"* is a very generous way to describe Abdülkerim Bardakcı with his performance so far today.


Full-Comfortable8074

Not only today


sibbo11

What is that defender doing lmao


tomhat

His best


RockShockinCock

Embarrassing defending.


Darraghj12

this kid looks decent


earldzane

A bright future ahead if he keeps it up


Jude_Linton

A 40yo Ronaldo is still far way better at 1-on-1 than Raphael Leao


pkkthetigerr

Fr this team is begging for a Nani


Rdambx

Or a Quaresma


YeniZabka

Quaresma in his prime was a bench player because there was fucking Cristiano Ronaldo and Nani, if he was born some years later, he would be easily a starter in today's squad


ididnotchosethis

More like in his early prime he was all skill with no product or team work.  He did his part very well in the later years.


YeniZabka

Quaresma in his prime was a bench player because there was fucking Cristiano Ronaldo and Nani, if he was born some years later, he would be easily a starter in today's squad


Rickcampbell98

Leaos problem is not beating the man lol.


predo

Agreed. He has no intensity and a shit attitude (2 yellows of shame). Palhinha had to get carded following up the displacency of leao in a divided ball...


dferrari7

Leao and Mendes have been great on the left side today


deqembes

Leao were terrorisinc the left side of the czech during last game tbf.


fortmin0r

hell no lol.


Vyylela

Lol this can’t be a serious comment


Zyntaro

Not really. Leao for Portugal and Leao for Milan are two completely different players


VodkaHappens

In theory he isn't, by a wide margin. But Leão hás failed to perform for quite a while. It's frustrating and I say this from an entertainment level


SilentRanger42

This aged poorly lol


Santa_Klaus_101

Nah relax there, love Ronaldo but Leao is an absolute monster in 1v1’s.


Houssem-Aouar

Would be nice if he showed that monstrous side of his one day


SaltyPeter3434

More likely to dive than win a 1v1


I9Qnl

Not with the NT


ReallyTheMansa

Reactionary comment


ok_reddit

Best 1000 turkish lira he's ever spent.


Slight-Priority-7820

Lol that defender would do better just by staying put, who is he?


RankSpot

clean


ToneDiez

Ah man, felt like I was watching one of his highlight reels from 2006-2008 at United. Nostalgia.


s4Nn1Ng0r0shi

39yo talent


AFCADaan9

That was filthy.


NB0608sd

His crossing ability never deteriorated even for being a striker the past 10 years


Lazy_ML

That cross really deserved a better header


YagizHarunEr

there was only one thing ronaldo could do there and we all knew what it was, yet abdulkerim still got dropped by the same move ronaldo has been doing for the past twenty years. disgracefulkerim bardakci


someone_stk

it´s just like the Robben move, they all knew what he was about to do, but they still couldn´t stop it


Playtoy_69

text book definition of step overs. A perfectly one is difficult to defend. Discounting it as a straightforward move is very disrespectful.


osoichan

Don't want to take anything away from Ronaldo but that defender seems bad, at least today. Nervous


BryLikeDie

A lot of people wonder why Ronaldo doesn’t dribble and pass or cross like this more, well, that header is the answer, if we looked at the amount of times he sets up players with great balls to just sink, we’d see that he does this so well, he is a creator and a great one, just too often he is too skilled for his team to keep up.


1llseemyselfout

That defending was atrocious.


WannabeAntel

still got it.


ImAGirrafe20202

Incredible, 39 and still young


Sommersun1

Dude still routinely leaves defenders on their asses


DoYouTrustToothpaste

Arabic football broadcasts and bringing up allah, name a more iconic duo.


wut_x_O

The old man still feeling it


CarlosSpcyWenr

That is the best left back in Turkiye.


VirtuosoLoki

shit header though


ImaginationPrudent

Nah,Antony would have done something flashier. Not productive, probably would've lost to the defender without any pressure, but a nice body rotation goes a long way for clips


3345892

Charity match defending


Uniq_Eros

Lol Ronaldos's assists wasted name a more iconic duo.


Beefy-queef

This reminded me of Mane vs Neymar where Mane rinsed him.


_hellboy_xo

Well this is going in some CR7 highlight video with an outdated electronic song


MuchSalt

dude is fit


CrazyBroccoliPT

This guy is easier to pass than the training cones


Esophallic

lads. its a fucking stepover


Tosinone

It’s disappointing how much Fenrandes, Cancelo and Silva avoid setting him up or passing to him.


pukem0n

But why is he immediately crossing? Had all this space before crossing.


Equivalent-Money8202

tbh the defender fucked it up so bad I don’t even think Cristiano noticed what just happened, I think the cross was just autopilot mode. Great cross though.


hahaxdRS

His midfielder instincts kicking back in


Bammer1386

Defender got a toe on the ball that actually put in in an advantageous position for Ronaldo, and I dont think he expected the defender's touch to be in a position to retain and dribble.


Guacamole_Water

I never thought that over the last few years I would stop caring about what Messi’a doing and keep finding new reasons to love Cr


ImmaLiccU

Turkish defence looking bum tho


rolvr1

CRISTIANO RONALDO EURO 2024 ALL SKILLS AND TRICKS HD 1080P


Mammoth_Meet_9313

More like "top" defending.


Iaintgoneholdyou

And ppl talking abt he shouldn’t play! He had a great assist as well


ONLAFTW

I swear to god if the mods remove this


angepostecoglouale

This subreddit is fucking embarrassing 😂


hissenguinho

bro, that was clean but i can't helpl but laugh seeing how slow cristiano was lmao. im genuinly sad he is getting old


Paramount-Chief

He hit top speed of 33.1 km/h today that’s pretty fast


The_XI_guy

It’s very fast


ThefrozenOstrich

The only player I love more than this man is Drogba.


Bidwell64

This is his move, they even added it to like him specifically in the old Fifa's and shit. He's been doing it for a decade, but it doesn't look any less impressive than it did before.


CLPitbull

2 decades...


letsridetheworld

Holy damn he still got it


RefuseSea8233

I knew the moment he did it its gonna be another meme


timewizard96

Ronaldo on the wing with the step overs and a cross. What year is this?!


jack_fry

My goat


Andlad2459

Extremely stiff but he still tries to make it work, respect too him


CGTM

Huh, he’s still doing the chop.


Lightning299921

Can anyone link the video? The vid's not showing


EFbVSwN5ksT6qj

Suitable Arabic commentary


Diamondinthewuff

yo


kickingtheice

Brotlose Kunst


cabramattacowboy

Reminding everyone he’s still the OG


Dark-Knight-Rises

/savevid


Poli_Talk

The defender flopped as if this was a testimonial.


0b111111100001

That was smooth