How A SKINNY "Showpony" Became The Most OVERPOWERED Player Ever

so listen to this clip one who's the best player in the world ever for me the best player in the world ever Diego Mar did you hear how everyone left yeah now it seems dumb but I'm willing to bet that if you were there that day you would have left too for the longest time to even insinuate that Ronaldo could go on to become a contender for the greatest of all time seemed like complete sacrilege the kind of transformation he went through was something never before seen in the sport it was abrupt brutal and at

times cruel any other teenage sensation would have crumbled at the first obstacle but thankfully it all happened to precisely the one kid who could survive it I mean let's be real for a while there it did look straight out of a fairy tale Ronaldo showed up for a friendly against a man united Squad that had been unbeaten all preseason and somehow tormented their defense to the point that before the final whistle was even block he had Roy King telling Sir Alex to sign him before he even leaves the stadium in the blink of an eye

he had become the most expensive teenager in the history of the Premier League he had been Ed the number seven shirt of George best konight David backham and then the cherry on the cake just four days after signing his contract he was thrown to the wolves and still played so magnificently that George best himself said that it was undoubtedly the most exciting debut he'd ever seen that many have been called the new George Best but this is the first time it has been a compliment to me then things got real sure five matches later Ronaldo

had Ashley Co doing the splits later even there asking Phil naville to let him take a free kick and proceeded to score his first ever goal in fantastic fashion but four months later all he had to his name were two goal contributions and the Defenders who once seemed completely hypnotized by his fakes and tricks now with them figured out getting rougher and rougher bullying him out of the ball anytime he tried something fancy so much so that he began diving and flopping around after every contact quickly becoming one of the most criticized players in the

league as every pundit began calling him a show Pony a selfish player with no end product his Aura had vanished from there on out like a mere mortal Ronaldo kept trying to convince Sir Alex he was worthy of a place in the starting 11 after New Years the first few assists started coming in by the last month of the Season still unable to speak English he managed to collect his first man of the match but above all with the Premier League title long gone to Arsenal's invincibles and having already scored or assisted in almost every

single round of the FA Cup Ronaldo showed up in the final scoring a bullet hather and putting in an incredible display that had Sir Alex himself protesting they have face the seasion to hand the man of the match award to vanroy as the kid had just saved him from going completely trophyless carrying on with that momentum once at the Euros Ronaldo would keep going coming in at halftime with Portugal trailing behind in their open wiing match quickly scoring to become the second youngest goal scorer in the history of the tournament then running it back with

an assist in the very next game to force his way into the starting 11 and eventually scoring one and assisting another to beat the Netherlands 2 to1 taking paral to their first ever final only to then shockingly lose to Greece regardless even if his performance had been enough to convince Europe there really was a world class player in there enough to force his way into the team of the tournament in 12th Place in a bondor once the Club season restarts so did the criticism 27 matches into the year Ronaldo had a single goal to his

name and even Gary naalu at times said defended him was now putting up the question of whether it was worth it to keep betting on a player who couldn't score one who could just turn off at times and not even help the team defend but thankfully again the new year would show us the new Ronaldo by February as the United stepped into one of the toughest matches of the season with royin and Via squaring up in the tunnel Arsenal going in front and a himself trying to intimidate Ronaldo as a home fans Boots the 19-year-old

no one fought it stand a chance but then their fullback slammed them into the advertising boards as objects rain down from the stands and he snapped two minutes later he had already smacked one in to tie the match getting up and running towards the St shushing the crowd and 5 minutes after that he banged in another running it all back suddenly it was Sir Alex who was subbing him off before things got too heated and though that day everyone would question how anyone could have such nerve at such a young age then it became clear

Ronaldo had grown tougher sharper and more resilient as his numbers exploded leading him on a streak of 13 goal contributions over 18 matches but if that was the first season where he approached world class status it was also the first where he went trophyless as despite easily being the best player on the pitch despite being involved in seven goals in the five matches that led him there United would lose out on the FA Cup Final jump starting the toughest year of Ronaldo's life as every expectation laid on his name quickly turned to worry once again

little more than a month after that last match Ronaldo's father was hospitalized with severe liver and kidney damage allegedly having struggled with PTSD since his service at the Portuguese colonial wars and having succumbed to alcoholism as a way to numb the pain Ronaldo tried everything even flew him over to London to get him the best medical care money could buy but it didn't work by September his father had passed away and that completely changed him having spent most of the summer locked in the gym away from the cameras when he St back into training as

physio Mike Fallon would say that year he came back a totally different animal he came back a man his body shape was different his facial features had changed we just said wow he ready but really whereas his body looked more prepared than ever this time it was his mind that was completely gone after 2 weeks of mourning he made it back to camp and instantly it was clear yet this rage in him that wasn't there before he went into every challenge desperate to prove it was the best but every time it ended up overdoing it

losing possession and costing United game after game in fact they'd win only three out of the first 10 matches following his comeback with Ronaldo himself struggling to get a single goal it was obviously emotionally unstable and quickly things started getting out of hand that very same month he have gigs visibly gesturing towards them telling Sir Alex to bring him off the pitch weeks later he was being brought in by the police over some seriously worrying accusations by December he'd be getting berated by Ferguson who quite literally yelled in his face who the hell do you

think you are after Ronaldo repeatedly hogged the ball in an away match against Benfica trying to impress the Portuguese crowd only to fail massively get subbed off and end up suspended for giving the crowd the middle finger by the turn of the Year it'd be getting sent off in the middle of the Manchester Derby after completely losing his goal and 3 days later it all finally blew up with vanroy having enough stopping in the middle of a practice match to yell at Ronaldo to just cross the ball already getting into a shouting match and telling

him to go crying to his daddy as you may imagine the moment Ronaldo heard those words it chars Adam ready to go at it and all hell broke loose van s Hoy would eventually apologize claiming that he was referring to Second coach KL k o not actually his dad but with the media catching wind of the situation The Narrative had been set Ronaldo had been averaging an horrendous 246 minutes per gold contribution for 5 months now to everyone's eyes he had lost it even Gary nville admitted it was to the point I question if he

had ever added in him to become a top player and yet this still wasn't his lowest point a bit of a hot streak in February was enough to convince some that a player they had once known was back he scored his first ever knuckle ball against Fulham then the club's goal of the season a week later and even helped United secure their only trophy with a goal in the final of the League Cup but then once the season ended Sir Alex was forced to make a choice so he went ahead and sold vanisa Roy to

Real Madrid banking on Ronaldo and Rooney to carry the team to Glory which it regrets almost instantly you know the story at a World Cup 62 minutes into Portugal versus England Rooney stumps on Carval private parts Ronaldo rushes towards the referee demanding him to be sent off the two end up getting into it pushing each other around and as Rooney is given his marching ARS Ronaldo is spotted winking at the bench and again the media comes in blasting tarnishing Ronaldo's name no matter how many times he insisted he was only winking as a way to

tell the bench he had heard their orders to move further up the pitch it was pointless nothing sold more newspapers and another headline declaring him as Public Enemy Number One by the end of the World Cup even FIFA themselves had been led to believe that sory was true going as far as snubbing him out of the young player of the tournament award giving it to bolski instead while claiming Ronaldo lacked the fair play necessary to be worthy of such a prize though as you may imagine it would be much harder than that to keep his

hands away from some silver Upon returning to Manchester Ronaldo did consider quitting in fact he made it public that he thought he should get out that he wanted to play in Spain but Sir Alex would simply not let him he told him that what was happening to him had already happened to his predecessor that They too had tried to kill off David Beckham after his red card at the 1998 World Cup and that if Beckham had survived that so could Cristiano because in his own words you're one of the bravest I've ever known walking away

just isn't like you in fact so much was his confidence that he'd succeed he'd bet him 400 lb that he could hit 15 League goals that year even though he had never hit double digits even though the record for a midfielder had just been a established by Frank Lampard at 16 so it was time to get started no matter if the Boost kept echoing throughout the stadium right on the first match Ronaldo and Rooney would combine to shut down the rumors and demolish fullam 5 to one then nearly a year after the Benfica incident Ronald

would go back to Lisbon and drop a manof the match performance assisting their only goal in completing 14 dribbles the second highest stally in the history of the Champions League then in October he Dred joined the national team to score one of the greatest goals of his career only to get wrongfully the night yet again and by November that kind of thing would be done one rocket of a free kick against sportsouth and a half volley against Everton to be named the League's best player of the month and when they fought it just couldn't get

better seven goals and two assists over six matches in December becoming only the third ever to win back-to-back player of the month Awards by the first match of February he was already on 23 goal contributions for the season and the great distaste of Sir Alex Ferguson on 15 League goals it was only a matter of time until he broke lampard's record but before that being yet to score a goal in the Champions League after 5 years in the competition Ronaldo had to destroy the rumors that he was a big game botler opening his tally with

two goals against Roma then another against AC Milan of maltini and NASA and though unfortunately a Kaka master class would have him get knocked out of the competition regardless back home with United ring their place at the top of the league falling behind 2-n against Everton with about 30 minutes left in the game and three matches left in the season Sir Alex would call Ronaldo Up From the Bench like he was releasing the Kraken and by the end he had flipped the result into a 4-2 scoring the very next game as well to make United

Premier League champions after starting the year as the country's Problem Child Ronaldo had managed to bring stellia up to 37 goal contributions taking every award imaginable even becoming the youngest since the 70s to be named player of the year but even if he had already won over everyone that was nothing compared to what was about to come Believe It or Not United started the next season with three games without a win and Ronaldo well not only did he not score but in the third of those matches he was sent off and suspended for another three

however this wasn't a disaster instead it was one of the most important moments of his career noticing that Ronaldo was working extra hours already trying to make up for the time he had lost legendary second coach Renee muin stayed behind after a training session and asked him what was his biggest goal obviously Ronaldo replied that he wanted to be the best player in the world so then he told him I can help you with that right now the weakest side of your game is your attitude because it affects your decision making I watched every single

one of your goals from last year and you only scored 23 because you want to score the perfect goal every time as good as you have become you play to put yourself in the Limelight to say look at me top Corner again so I got to ask you how many goals do you think you could actually score if you put your mind to it Ronaldo replied between 30 to 35 so Renee said I'm sure you could score 40 so as long as you're suspended I'm going to teach you how to become deadly and for the

next 30 days he hammered Ronaldo with footage from sheirer liner Soler Vin hoy and his own words taught him one thing it doesn't matter how you score as long as the ball goes in the net and so over the 18 matches from his comeback up to New Year's Eve Ronaldo scored 18 goals six of them as per usual were absolute stunners but three had been proper Striker finishes coming out of nowhere to Tye it in another three were penalties and the most important of all in the space of three months Ronaldo had scored six hethers

as many as he had over the previous 5 years of his career to say that it was frightening to watch was the bare minimum only 12 days into the new year Ronaldo had already scored his first ever hatrick to start a free kick under the wall for the second a perfect run in the cleanest finish for the third he grabbed onto a loose ball got away from his marker and rifled it in and somehow just three matches after that he had already added five more calls to his stally including that free kick against Sports mou

so suddenly as the commentators said that everything he touched turned to Gold Ronald had already tied his previous season's goal scoring tally so he went up to muen Stein and he told him you can do one of two things now you can take your foot off the padal or push even further so this time it wasn't Fanny sroy on the TV it was Muhammad Ali it was about mentality and godamn did that work starting in March Ronald went on a run of seven consecutive matches scoring always coming in whenever they needed him the most it

seemed every goal was either an equalizer or a winner but among those performances one stood far Above the Rest against Aston Villa he put up simply one of the greatest shows in premier league history United won 4- n and Ronaldo scored the opener with a ridiculous back hill then putting a perfect first time cross for the second another outlandish backhill touch to set up the third and then another assist just as clean for the fourth as The League season ended it wasn't that he had broken the goalscoring record or become the first Winger to win

the European Golden Boot It was about timing Ronaldo's 37 goals and assists had won his team 24 points in a season where they were declared Champions over a two-point margin it's hard to even put it into words almost every single goal was clutch and in the Champions League it wasn't much different Ronaldo scored against almost every single opponent they faced even in the final against Chelsea he was the one to score their only goal again a hather and and though in the end after he missed his penalty did take a tad of luck to bring

it all together and make United European Champions there were no doubts to have made it all possible as UFA ended out their Awards Chelsea took best goalkeeper best defender best midfielder but the best player award went undoubtedly to Ronaldo at 23 years of age had taken virtually every award available to him as many started referring to his season as the most dominant in history one that completely redefined what it even meant then to be a Winger and 6 months later following a massive transfer Saga his second European Championship a surgery to his ankle and a

Victorious run at the club World Cup Ronaldo finally reached his goal being voted by 77 out of 96 journalists as the best player in the world matter of fact it was one of the few additions of the bondor where one name was present in every single ballot Ronaldo was undeniable and by the end of that final season he had made United Premier League champ for the third time in a row he had led them on the longest unbeaten Champions League run of all time all the way to a second final scoring two of the greatest

goals in history on his way there and even though they did lose only a few weeks later he had become the most expensive player of all time as he moved on to the next chapter of his career one that somehow made all of what I just said look completely average