FIFA Icons Explained | The Original Ronaldo

In this new series we’ll be taking a look back at some of the best players to ever lace up a pair of boots through their Ultimate Team Icon cards. Today we’ll be looking at one of the greatest strikers of all time; Ronaldo Nazario.
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[@Deletistjerk]

Ronaldo's years at Inter Milan was more impressive than his lone year at Barcelona. Serie A was by far the best league with the best defenders in the world. Ronaldo burned everyone.

[@Christopher_J]

Sam Bingham Actual FACTS!!!

[@fetusimao7018]

Sam Bingham I disagree. Cruzeiro, PSV and Barcelona, in my opinion, were the greatest Ronaldo. 1996/97 Barcelona. I can’t even articulate my thoughts on his sheer power,control, speed, force, and finishing.

[@GeoZeppelin1979]

*DEFINITELY*

[@johnlewis2883]

@@fetusimao7018 never seen a player like him and I don't think we ever will

[@amelwin1]

No Inter Milan mentioned? go home copa you are drunk!

[@thetruth4654]

Even as an AC Milan fan i have to agree with this

[@cranjismcbasketball1638]

O Fenomeno is the GOAT

[@niallwagner6283]

Was already one of the best strikers of all time at just 20

[@am.saturday]

That was beautiful man, gave me the goosebumps and he is one of those talents that I have seen play some phenomenal football.

[@tryggvihernandez833]

If only i would've been born when he was at his prime. What a time to be alive 💯

[@Aemond2024]

Ronaldo at PSV was unbelievable

[@thomasgrizzell5894]

WAS HE BETTER THAN BARCA RONALDO

[@rcarl1473]

The man got me started watching the game....there are players with more goals and titles but it was just different with R9

[@leftenantthunder]

It's crazy to think that as great he was, he could have been even better

[@dwill1804]

I’ll take prime Original Ronaldo over any player in history save Lionel Messi. If he had healthy knees i believe his work ethic would’ve maintained and we’d be seriously debating between him and Messi for the undisputed GOAT

[@lobaxx]

Maradona and Pelé would like a word. But yes, without a doubt the best striker to play in the 21:st century bar Messi.

[@TheLastAbady]

messi never won shit for his country. Hes good at barcelona, but who isn't.

[@alextomas8384]

lmb nasri I mean I think messi carries Argentina. They legit look like they don't want to play. Messi Is the only attacking force that actually contributes to their goals

[@stivib5937]

Jose Tomas messi is shit for argentina

[@zakariadjouzi7570]

Stivi Bani didn't you see how he carried them to the world cup single handedly you blind fuck

[@goni9991]

Great series idea 👍👍👍

[@LonDonTaylor.]

Worldcup France '98 was whrn my eyes opened up to Ronaldo the living god

[@CesarSanchezfool]

GOAT

[@lookatthisnet462]

Great idea. Keep it up!

[@danielmcdermott138]

This is my kind of video. Can't wait for more.

[@nicolasjh9743]

Great video keep it up pls

[@Cbas619]

great vid hope to see more icons

[@sheepman4522]

AYYEE NICE VID BRO DEM G DEM RAD LOVE PEACE AND TEKKERS ❤️

[@CesarSanchezfool]

“The keepers nightmare”

[@blususpect]

Love this series!

[@carlosrubio3626]

That Barca year will always be legendary

[@stivib5937]

User Name he was superb at inter.There he was known by the world

[@MilagrosG974]

Original Ronaldo the legend!!! No one is better thn him!!!! The 🐐 the 👑

[@Menez18]

This series is gonna be amazing...

[@cjc9827]

If he didn't get injured he could well be known as the greatest player ever to play football. Such a shame he got injured at Inter.

[@chrisgerrard9025]

Goat for me

[@joshnwaogu1189]

The instrumental is colddddddddd

[@amo2489]

Glad to hear some true recognition that Ronaldo deserves. Without knee injuries he'd be close to the best with Messi, Maradona etc. It's even more amazing how he changed his game after injuries, which show how skilled he really was to adapt and continue to score at the top level with career threatening injuries

[@stivib5937]

amo2489 he was better than messi especially with his national team

[@zakariadjouzi7570]

he wasn't better than messi at all especially on club level when he was no where near messi's level

[@nsd3366]

Ronaldo in 97 stats should be the highest. No one in history was better than Ronaldo at his best. And 96 to 2002 were his best years. GOAT

[@luistejeda6935]

Dope video. Ronaldo is the best striker ever. The losers that disliked this video, have no clue about soccer.

[@hass7709]

Luis Tejeda obviously u dont calling it soccer

[@crossy8529]

By calling it soccer neither do you

[@moatazibrahim3907]

Soccer you dumb bitch

[@crossy8529]

The rest of the world call it football so who's the dumb bitches,just another exampe of americans thinking there the only country that exists that shit you call football isn't even hardly known outside of america

[@tateihuhwa9089]

If only he had a tougher Right knee who knows he might still have been rippin Goal Net,Rapping Defenders and Destroying Goal Keeper.Kind of reminds me of Gareth Bale.

[@user-je5hn4rm5l]

Great idea

[@qkomodo9098]

Talk about the Icons but with so many legends, research off the careers of all the legend is an opportunity that's wasted, at this point

[@christossantosuosso8885]

This is actually a sick fifa series

[@devanshsanghavi]

I'm a Barca fan, but this guy just can't be hated

[@LucasAndradeHD]

To me he's known as the best Ronaldo

[@thomasgrizzell5894]

of course though CR7 Is CLASS....

[@luiscarreto8296]

thats dumb cr7 is complete, u just dont like cr7 for some reason the man as winger as done it all, work ethic everything he isnt the most talented thats facts but he works harder than anyone else, and availability is very important thing that people disregard, was ronaldo the brazilian better in his prime?maybe, but what this it matter cr7 did it for far more years on a higher level, and its not luck its hard work, cr7 has a had a far better carrer than ronaldo the brazilian and if you dont wanna see that you are blind, you just say ronaldo isnt complete cause u have some kind of bone to pick with him, cause tell me from his position what cant he do, he has got more left footed goals than most strikers have goals and thats his worst foot, he is an amazing header of the football, the man is 32 and still going strong so he is without a doubt the best player between the ronaldos cause he did it the best for the longest time

[@stivib5937]

Ben Saber r9 was better than cr7 and cr7 overall is better than messi who gives a fuck about some tricks that make you like him cr7 and r9 were way more decisive

[@zakariadjouzi7570]

Stivi Bani what decisive are you talking about ? cr7 didn't even play the euro final that eder won it for him & portugal and he only played 2 good matches when he was decisive, in the UCL 2008 it was sholes who saved man united's ass against barcelona who dominated them over 2 legs in the semi finals & when ronaldo dissapeared & on top of that he missed a penalty in the 1st leg at the camp nou and in 2014 he scored 2 goals against bayern when the score was already 3-0 for madrid thanks to ramos & benzema and he scored after that a penalty against atletico in the 120th minute of the final when the score was already 3-1 for madrid thanks to ramos again who was their savior, bale & marcelo, and the best one was in 2016 when he disapeared after the quarter finals against wolfsburg the 9th of the german league then he didn't had any inmpact on them and again it was bale who scored their winning goal against man city in the semi final and ramos saved them again in the final against atletico again when he scored another header for the 1-0 and if it wasn't for him atletico would've won 1-0 since carasco scored a late goal for atletico then ronaldo came & scored the winning penalty in the penalty shotout for the glory when the score was already 4-3 for madrid, he was decisive only last season with his offside & deflected tap ins due to his teammates creating 5+ clear chances inside the box for him in every game and look at him right now he can't even be decisive against girona, betis & fucking celta vigo in the spanish league, so how the fuck is he better than messi and more decisive than him overall ?

[@zakariadjouzi7570]

and you mentioned ronaldo nazario that his only big achievement was the world cup in 2002 with the likes of ronaldinho, rivaldo, lucio, roberto carlos, cafu ect... when he scored 2 one touch goals against germany who one of them was a tap in after oliver khan made a huge mistake at grapping the ball somehow against a team full of floppers like balack who's the biggest flopper ever for me but where was he against turquie & belgium when rivaldo saved them if i'm not wrong and where was he against england the toughest team they faced back then & who was taking the 1-0 lead untile ronaldinho saved their asses with his legendary long rang free kick goal then his assist to rivaldo for the winning goal i think so what was R9 doing back then ? and why R9 didn't do shit on club level even tho he played 15 years in europe with the very best from barcelona to inter to fucking madrid with their legendary galacticos to the great milan but he never won the UCL, actually he couldn't even reach a UCL final during his entire career and he was the reason why madrid failed to do it in 2004 when he flopped against fucking as monaco so how the fuck is he way more decisive than messi who won 32 trophies 30 of them with barcelona including 4 UCL and he was decisive in 3 of them in 2009 he assisted the winning goal against chelsea in the semi final, then he scored the KO goal against man united with cr7 in the final for the 2-0 win, in 2011 he scored 2 goals in the semi final against real madrid with cr7 again in it in the their home stadium the bernabeu the 2nd one was a legendary solo goal from the midfield after dribbling 4 madrid players, then he scored the winning goal in the final against man united again from a long rang shot, in 2015 he destroyed bayern in the semi final when he scored 2 goals, assisted one for neymar and created 2 others by pre assisting them to neymar and one of those goals was a long rang goal & the other was another legendary solo goal when he broke the ankle of the best deffender in the world back then boateng & finished it with a chip with his weak right foot over neuier the best keeper back then like he did in 2011 against ramos, marcelo & cassillas who were the best in their positions back in 2011, then in 2015 he faced juventus in the final and he was involved in every goal barcelona scored that night in the 3-1 win over juventus and that's being decisive fanboy !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@MasturbaterPlaysMC]

Original ronaldo>Penaldo

[@sTreek90]

For me in his prime better then CR7

[@maurodriguesxr]

Waaaay better

[@abdalla8558]

for almost errybody he is

[@JugoBoy1389]

CR7 in his ManUnited days was an absolute beast aswell

[@albertojose9495]

Wtf, omg did you even know that all the best players we heard about. now played agaisnt ronaldo rivaldo, roberto carlos, scholes, Beckham, luis figo, ronaldinho, buffon, khan,klose, batistuta, Baggio, raul, van nistelroy, eto, totti, del pierro, rafa marquez, puyol, henrry, zidane, LA FIEBRE MALDINI come on Italy was without a doubt the hardest league back when roanldo used to play compared to premier league, if you ever saw maldini, played as a defender you wouldn't be saying this guy, and i don't mean KZbin videos i mean actual games, Also in my opinion. LUIS FIGO WAS BETTER THAN RONALDO just remeber that portugal made it to semifinals with figo on the team and now thatbhe left portugal can't even pass qtr.finals

[@CosmiCactus]

Alberto Jose they won the euros you idiot

[@ceeydom1636]

Ronaldo was the father of all GOATS. Seeing as how his name is still associated with what more could have been when he achieved so much more than the Cristiano’s, Messi’s and Neymar’s of today just shows in what a different class he was

[@debesche96]

2002 photo is hilarious! :D

[@cezarmorariu527]

Imagine an upfront made of Pele and R9..almost secure win haha

[@adriggosyahcci4567]

Please make more ! Like Maldini,Pele,Van Basten or anyone Else because i like it!

[@michalisr9]

The best ever

[@rileyyakabuskie1427]

PLEASE do an episode like this for LEV YASHIN

[@aymankhan2368]

Henry next;

[@bigbadbill0071]

game back then was still pretty physical unlike todays no contact. i doubt messsi and cr7 stats would be so great in 1990s

[@dylanwalter6624]

You should cover Gullet next

[@vladimirjitaru267]

What he says is lictually in the icon profile

[@Konde1]

Do one on Jari Litmanen!

[@otanakabpm]

soundtrack?

[@MrCheesyBaconBits]

The guy had a seizure during the 2002 wprld cup, played and eventually won the cup anyway. Ronaldo could have been the greatest player of all time if he remained injury free and is still top 5 despite it.

[@jaibeats]

TurtleBurger thats was 98 and he lost bro

[@MrCheesyBaconBits]

It happened again in 2002, he wasn't on the team sheet before the game due to a suspected seizure but came on anyway before kick off.

[@teainfusedmaniac]

Why is there a PS3 controller at the beginning? 😂 Time for next gen lads

[@tobznoobs]

For a time there, you cant touch the original Ronaldo. But by 2003 the decline was real. That freaking right knee. The difference his barca days in la liga vs his madrid stint, sandwiched in the middle his glory days in Inter even with several knee injuries.

[@thomasgrizzell5894]

96 WHOOOOOOOOOO

[@riowinaryo18_86]

kids! this is the original Ronaldo remember!

[@ivanmarkoski682]

I didnt watch ronaldo at barcelona but as a barcelona fan i still think letting him go was one of the bigger mistakes of barca...

[@DrumVibes]

O fenômeno means the phenomenon (yes I do know some people understand that already)

[@F3xEr]

King Thierry next?

[@Nopicrandom]

I call him Ronaldo the first

[@Username-jm5qi]

for me he is the best

[@Tyrkia123]

Puyol next

[@nsoper19]

defenses were generally better in those days so I think Ronaldos goals at barcelona are just as good as messi if not better

[@gabrielbalog268]

Ronaldinho vs R9 Who wins?

[@talesvinicius598]

At the moment R9 but Neymar still has to reach his prime

[@gurung1812]

Ronaldinho has no comparison for o fenomeno

[@MasturbaterPlaysMC]

I like ronaldihno more in my opinion

[@parisp2583]

Really bro? Inter was his prime. Serie A was by far the best league with the best teams and Ronaldo still lit it up.

[@user-em9mw9ch3y]

How could you miss the word "dribbling" ?

[@harrykearns3448]

The 3 dislikes are people with no coins in fifa 18

[@NiranOla]

Not one of the greatest strikers of all time. THE greatest striker of all time. No player was ever as gifted as he was.

[@mexican8485]

Played against him whooped his ass lol

[@mahamedabdulkadir5018]

Why has he got a ps3 controller????

[@TheJohnlenas]

copa 90 you did not cover him at inter and also said "one of the world best " you lot need a slap he is the world best ever player

[@Mike_Santana]

There's is (and will be) only one Ronaldo.

[@SybeHier]

The Netherlands*

[@clementine3218]

Could have won three world cups in a row if those Frenchies hadn't poisoned his food...ALLEGEDLY.

[@fl3x101]

You skipped a lot of stuff. But hey good job

[@GB-ic9wc]

and then you beat the team bc it's just credit card FC and he doesnt know how to play the game (I actually beat a team that had the 94 R9 and a bunch of other great players)

[@mattiastewolde3044]

Ronaldo Lost the World Cup final 1998 to a European team Struggled to qualify to the 2002 but still managed Won the 2002 World Cup Messi Lost the 2014 World Cup final to a European team Struggle to qualify to the 2018 World Cup but still managed And in the about 6 months Messi will win the World Cup Oh also the 2002 World Cup was in Asia and so is the the 2018 one

[@liongordel9088]

Sorry, bro Messi did try but he is not equal to Ronaldo.

[@CSB_010]

The ‘Real’ Ronaldo

[@grinchoi1]

His 1997 profile stats are a joke. 95 dribble rating? 76 PHY? Please. He was so far ahead of everythibg

[@omariraqiman]

dida - r.carlos - cafu - alex - aldair \\ kaka - rivaldo - ronaldinho \\ ronaldo - romario - bebeto :D

[@amarmann8341]

U can’t use his 96 rated card yet 👍👍

[@thomasgrizzell5894]

WHY

[@amarmann8341]

Thomas Grizzell because it hasn’t been released yet they will release it later on in the year

[@thomasgrizzell5894]

I can’t be asked with ULTIMATE TEAM PLUS IT WOULD COST A BOMB TO GET THAT VERSION OF RONALDO SO NA NOT FOR ME HAHA..

[@thomasgrizzell5894]

Mate do u think EA have got it right giving a prim ronaldo a whopping 96 rating wow maybe a little bit to high or what do u think about prime versions of pele and maradona 98, and 97 respectably sir.......

[@b5Bart]

The greatest of all time. Only messi comes close to o fenomeno.

[@JoelCastro5206]

Third lol

[@awsalkindi9328]

Poor inter

[@jagrajbassi876]

Fucking knee injuries stopped this guy from being the Goat

[@cmurphy6167]

🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@corylane4]

🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@edzothedon1487]

Not relevant

[@corylane4]

Eliot Luka so🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@andrewwalker395]

🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@juliansall2002]

Why a PS3 controller? Lol

[@Colin-ut6cm]

I feel like messi and ronaldo are no coincidences and we will see more players of their caliber in the future due to better sports science

[@zakariadjouzi7570]

ronaldo yes but not messi he was never about science & training

[@thomasgrizzell5894]

bar pele he was the best brazilian but messi and ,maradona were slightly greater.....

[@marcobarba5488]

Messi and Ronaldo are better than R9 in their prime.

[@MasturbaterPlaysMC]

Marco Menez Barba not even

[@marcobarba5488]

junior garcia yes even

[@MasturbaterPlaysMC]

Ben Saber i agree

[@fishtv1613]

Marco Menez Barba no

[@broxy2007]

You must be on drugs or never seen r9 pre injury

[@dadisajo9]

Better than Messi

[@zakariadjouzi7570]

not really but for sure better than Penaldo

[@gurung1812]

The Real Ronaldo Best player of all time .I don't care what do you think

[@ClimateDude]

Ugh more ads from EA disguised as actual videos.... I mean don't get me wrong i know you need money to keep going but there is a difference of merely putting up advertisements before a video to generate money and pretending a video is actual content, when it only is an ad for ultimate team. Because the series as such is a great idea, the problem is it looks like the idea of remembering legends of the game is only an alibi for an three minute ad, which is quite disappointing.

[@lmuhoja]

He's still not the best Ronaldo. Mad respect though.

[@sxif_1]

Lawrence Muhoja . he is. U must be stupid to think cr7 is better

[@lmuhoja]

Siaf Ali His best season was 47 goals in 51. His Madrid average is no where near that of Ronaldo who averaged 50+ goals for like 7 consecutive seasons.

[@LucasAndradeHD]

Lawrence Muhoja Ronaldo's competition was much harder

[@diegobautista7511]

Lawrence Muhoja he wasn’t as good at Madrid because he had those knee injuries and gained weight. If he stayed healthy he wouldve been averaging the performances of cristiano in his Madrid days.

[@lmuhoja]

Ben Saber Your points have a solid basis. I agree with a lot of what you say. But are you sure you aren't factoring emotions into this? CR7 is not likable. He's plain arrogant. If he was humble it would be easier agreeing he's better the same way we agree Messi is better than Maradona. Plus, if your old school and grew up watching R9 then you'll be biased towards him. People naturally hate change. The same way LeBron James who has better stats across the board isn't regarded as better than Jordan. The excuse is he hasn't won as much rings. With CR7 it's 'he hasn't won the world cup'. But I would agree it was more enjoyable watching R9 play.

[@ohPezx]

Original ronaldo ? Didn’t even reach 300 goals in his career while cristiano has over 600 , bale has a better goal ration than ronaldo . Dont get me started

[@RodolfoGaming]

oh pezx exactly. Now its more like the fat one: "O gordo" - in portuguese

[@liquidpebbles7475]

How many world cups does the new Ronaldo owns? Don't get me started

[@gurung1812]

Lol 1 euro vs 2 worldcup and copa america .1 time runnerup in WC & Copa America .And how many he played even semi final of world cup 00000.even loser messi(from argentina only)reach final in world cup and 3 time in copa america

[@francopan]

There is no way you can compare two different generations. The Ronaldos where the best compared to the players they played with.

[@hughgallagher8289]

It's sooo much easier to score these days than it was when Ronaldo was around, Filippo Inzaghi was one of the finest strikers of that era and didn't even score 200 league goals in his career.

[@omod143]

CR7 is better. A prime R9 might've been better than a prime CR7 but R9's prime was like 2 seasons😂😂😂fucking joke. CR7 done what be did STATISTICALLY for much longer on a higher level