The years at the Croce and delight – but it is precisely in the years in which the Inter shirt has dressed, irony of fate that worn in the moment of maximum technical splendor, that Ronaldo experienced his most dramatic moments, starting with the famous illness accused a few hours after the final of France ’98, continuing with the terrible double knee injury that between 1999 and 2000 has definitively limited the Pour on the bench of the Olympic Stadium in Rome when it saw the Scudetto blend right at the last corner.
But as well as the opposing defenders, not even the bad luck managed to contain the phenomenon 100%, capable of getting up and recovering everything, conquering the leading world championship as leader and absolute driver in 2002, and also the second golden ball that already seemed to be his own right before that terrible day in Paris during which Zidane indelibly wrote his name in the history of football, right in front of an unexpected Ronaldo. evening “unrecognizable” from newspapers around the world.
Only after would the truth come out, which would allow everyone to understand that the one who took the field at the Stade de France, was nothing but the ghost of the footballer who, probably, if the match had been played twenty -four hours earlier he would have rewritten the story. Because Ronaldo – and we add anything else in order not to fall into the rhetoric above – was one of the very few players (we can count them on the fingers of one hand) capable of winning the games alone, of combining concreteness and entertainment, of giving dizzying numbers without ever losing sight of the concreteness, the Goal, the final result.
A footballer with a devastating concreteness, but beautiful, beautiful to look at. And that traveled at a speed that, for the time, razed the mythological. But even when his proverbial speed – in the career ending – has failed, Ronaldo managed to leave his mark (and what a sign!) By returning to his homeland and contributing with extraordinary goals to a historic double triumph that entered the history of Corinthians.
