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Johan Cruyff scores “The Phantom Goal” against Atletico Madrid in a 1973 Spanish league match at Camp Nou.

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Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins

Johan Cruyff

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thebeautifulgamer-blog · 7 years

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The eruption of The Phenomenon.

It is hard to imagine Ronaldo without a ball at his feet and a whole defense running after him just like little kids during a school kick-around, desperately trying to get the ball away from him.

Having the ball and deciding when to ignite the tempo of the match is something Ronaldo has always done from the very moment he started kicking a ball at Bento Ribeiro, a working class suburb in Rio. Football was in his blood, he first joined Valqueire Tennis Club, a “futsal” local club at a young age. His unique talent would bring him to a bigger club São Cristóvão where his amateur career started. Then at age 12, he got a trial with Flamengo, unfortunately someone refused to pay for his bus ticket, and he couldn’t join his boyhood idols. So Ronaldo ended up surprisingly signing with Cruzeiro’s youth team in 1992.

On May 25th, 1993, Ronaldo, aged 16, made his professional debut with Cruzeiro in a Brasileirão match against Caldense. In truth, the intention of the head coach, Pinheiro, was to play that match with a reserve team, so the fact that Ronaldo played was just anecdotal, apart from the fact that of course he scored.

Ronaldo’s genius erupted globally only a few months later, in December, in a Mineirão match against Bahia. No one had yet heard of Ronaldo at a larger scale, but that was going to change in just 90 minutes, time enough for O Fenômeno to score 5 goals.

Watching the footage, we see a 16 year old genius, playing up front, and you ask yourself: Is he faster or are the other players slower? You get the feeling he was unstoppable. Ronaldo does the same things, we would all see a few years later playing for Barcelona and then for Inter at the top of his career. His football style was explosive yet showing a unique mastery of the ball never seen before. A real phenomenon.

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Cruzeiro’s second goal, the only one “menino” Ronaldo didn’t score that day, sees Ronaldo dropping from the box to pick the ball up near the right wing of Cruzeiro’s midfield, something very unusual for a striker of the time. The left back tries to follow him, the full back seems disoriented. Ronaldo already knows what to do next, he turns, drives the ball forward and then sets a perfect through ball for Careca to score in an easy one-on-one against the helpless goalkeeper Rodolfo Rodríguez.

In a demonstration of strength, Ronaldo scored his second goal, after chasing the defender to steal the ball, then slow down tricking two man to the ground with a dazzling feint and gently rolling the ball to an empty net. Something similar to a tornado that leaves chaos behind.

At the end of the game, Ronaldo, surprised by his unusual fifth goal, where he took the ball away from the keeper, Rodríguez, in a clever action, asked a reporter by the pitch: "Did you captured that last one?” with a kid’s smile on his face, still unaware of the importance of those 90 minutes. The same reporter didn’t wait long to run to his office and write the next days headlines about the birth of a new football genius, a new Pelé.

In his only season at Cruzeiro Ronaldo ended up scoring 44 goals in 47 games, helping Cruzeiro to win their first Copa do Brazil. The first campaign in the Brazilian top flight generated a massive impact on Ronaldo’s career. Indeed 1993 was the year of the birth of The Phenomenon and the beginning of a new football era.

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thebeautifulgamer-blog · 7 years

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September 4th, 1994 Francesco Totti scores his first goal in Serie A.

Only 30 minutes into the game and the fans could see for the first time the genius of Totti, all in just one quick action. An action that perfectly describes what Platini defined as “Nove e mezzo” or as Italians call this type of player “trequartista”. During the 90′s there were many of them playing in Serie A footballers such as Baggio, Del Piero and of course young Totti himself.

Il Bimbo de Oro just needed 30 minutes to score the opener in the Serie A 94/95 campaign first match against Foggia. A long ball into the box that Fonseca, surrounded by players, headed back for Totti to connect with a powerful shot leaving Foggia’s keeper Francesco Mancini with no chance.

It was the first one, then he would score another 249 more, needless to say always wearing the same shirt, the red and yellow jersey of AS Roma. His only club, the one he always loved since he was a kid.

That day Totti wasn’t wearing the number 10 shirt, Giannini “Il Principe” wore it by the time, so Totti got to wear number 9 instead. With time the Prince’s shirt would become the King’s.

Carlo Mazzone had trusted the yet to be King of Rome, about to turn 18 years-old, to play the first match of the season as part of the starting eleven at the Olimpico di Roma, replacing Balbo.

That September still hot afternoon, in a city that lives football like no other, the Romanisti at the stadium, or those listening to the game on the radio, were unaware they would witness a moment which would become a precious milestone of the Italian football history.

Something to tell their children and grandchildren for the rest of their lives: Totti’s first Serie A goal.

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#TOTTI #KINGOFROME #ASROMA #SERIEA #ILCAPITANO #NUMBER10 #FIRSTGOAL #FOOTBALLLEGEND

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thebeautifulgamer-blog · 8 years

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June 27th, 1984 A young Michele Platini established an impossible record: 9 goals in only 5 Euro '84 matches. Still today no other footballer has been able to repeat such a thing. Platini’s goals not only were beautiful, they were also important for Les Bleus. He scored the winner against Denmark in the opening match, a hat-trick against Belgium, then a perfect hat-trick against Yugoslavia. Michel would then score the winner in the semifinal extra-time against Portugal, and the opener in the final against Spain.

#Euro84 #France #Platini #Perfect Hat-trick #Football Legends #LeRoi

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