Ronaldo Nazario SNUBS Cristiano Ronaldo as he names his eight greatest footballers of all-time… as Brazil legend includes himself and chooses only one former team-mate
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Brazilian Ronaldo has named who he believes are the eight best players of all time.
47-year-old Ronaldo Nazario had a brilliant career from 1993 to 2011, playing for the likes of Barcelona, Inter Milan, Real Madrid and AC Milan, while also scoring 62 times in 98 appearances for Brazil.
The former striker is one of the most iconic footballers of his generation and has since tried his hand at football with Spain’s Real Valladolid and his boyhood side Brazil’s Cruzeiro.
And to speak again in 2022 The guardRonaldo – who scored 352 goals in 518 games in his career and also won two Ballon d’Or awards – was named among the eight best players of all time. However, he left one big name off his list.
“I think there’s a very, very special group,” he said. ‘Where you have Diego, Messi, Cruyff, Beckenbauer, Pele, Van Basten, Ronaldinho.
Brazilian Ronaldo named the eight best players of all time in an interview in 2022
However, the former Brazilian striker ignored his namesake and Portuguese icon Cristiano Ronaldo
‘I would involve myself. Let the fans say it, let them debate it in the bars.
“But you can’t rank them, you can’t compare generations.”
The Brazilian ignored Cristiano Ronaldo in favor of his old rival Lionel Messi, despite the Portuguese icon having scored 891 goals in his career and still excelling at the age of 38.
Meanwhile, Ronaldo’s list included several players he would not have played with.
Diego Maradona, Pele, Johan Cruyff and Franz Beckenbauer all hail from a previous era, although they are widely hailed as legends of the game.
Likewise, despite switching in his playing career with Marco van Basten and Lionel Messi, he was never a teammate of either of the icons.
On the other hand, Ronaldo played with Ronaldinho at both AC Milan and for the Brazilian national team.
The two stars were crucial in propelling the Selecao into the early 2000s.
This included winning the World Cup together in 2002.
To make matters worse for Cristiano Ronaldo, he was rejected in favor of Lionel Messi
The late greats Franz Beckenbauer and Pele both made Ronaldo’s list
Ronaldo (No. 9) also included his Brazilian teammate and fellow icon Ronaldinho (No. 11)
Given their partnership, it’s perhaps no surprise that Ronaldo also named himself among the group of eight.
But besides Cristiano Ronaldo, other legends such as Michel Platini, Alfredo Di Stefano, Zinedine Zidane, George Best and Ferenc Puskas may find it difficult not to be mentioned.
