Comments on: Is Cristiano Ronaldo just “faked up hype?”

By: nolan

nolan — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:29:42 +0000

Ronaldo has matured a ton since the world cup. If you can\’t see this then you either don\’t watch football or you\’re just a hater.
When you play the game at the pace he plays at, you\’re a lot more volatile to the slightest of contacts. He is also a major target for being tackled because he gets a step on players all the time.
I will admit that he does embellish the challenges some times, but there are tons of fouls they miss on him. When he does exaggerate the contact, it\’s often because the ref has missed calls on him and he has to make it that blatant for the ref to take action.

By: Jan-fan

Jan-fan — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:33:22 +0000

i second Jan\’s opinion… ronaldo is a good player but will never be great in football (cos of his antics), but he has a good shot at the Oscars ??

By: jan

jan — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:35:18 +0000

Ah, so we differ in what we think is a great player — in my view a great player should not revert to cheating because he shouldn’t need to. If Ronaldo wasn’t a diver there would be no controversy about him, and obviously there is a lot of that.

If there was another footballer which showed the same goalscoring form as Ronaldo now, the awards would go to that person, no mistake about that.

By: Gaz

Gaz — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:00:43 +0000

Jan - So you acknowledge that Ronaldo should be voted Player of the Year and you acknowledge that his form has been “amazing”, yet you stand by your comment that he is not a great player?? …… Am I missing something here?? Let’s just be clear about this - Player of the Year awards aren’t thrown out “willy-nilly”. Some might say being a “great” player is part of the criteria…..

By: Abs

Abs — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:23:53 +0000

Does comentators are reallllllllyyyyyyy jealous!!!!!!!!!
Ronaldo is class lok at his stats, Messi is class but what ronaldo has done this season is magic. btw tht comentating was last season, I\’m sure their eating their words now.
About the youtube video let tht poor idiot hu made it feel stupid when he gets FIFA WORLD PLAYER OF THE YEAR im sure sky doesnt decide hu wins tht.

By: example

example — Fri, 09 May 2008 05:54:39 +0000

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By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:53:11 +0000

Haha bless those ridiculous young Irish chaps, the talkative one in particular.

-The main thing that made me comment here were the Irish analysts saying that he’s a flash player who’s a “brat”, who “has no personality” and that if he’s not careful he’ll turn into an overrated nobody (paraphrased) “like Totti”. Erm, like Francesco ‘I’m a top bloke who loves my city, country, and club; will never leave Roma and scored thirty-odd goals last season for them taking a below-par team into 2nd place after winning the World cup the year before’ Totti? Oh no, what a shame it would be if Ronaldo turned into that!

Surely what Sky have done with their video compilation is neither here nor there; we don’t need some commentator telling us the goal is ‘brilliant’ or Ronaldo’s ‘brilliant’: the fact that we’re watching brilliant action by the brilliant Cristiano Ronaldo should speak for itself. A picture’s worth a thousand words and all that… Perhaps “unknowngenius* was so busy listening that he forgot to watch his own footage.
P.S though if Ronaldo IS some Terminator hybrid then surely thats cheating?!

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:52:08 +0000

Haha bless those ridiculous young Irish chaps, the talkative one in particular.

-The main thing that made me comment here were the Irish analysts saying that he\’s a flash player who\’s a \

By: Stephen Mohs

Stephen Mohs — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:24:45 +0000

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By: Stephen Mohs

Stephen Mohs — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:24:00 +0000

Ronaldo is a great goal scorer but a terrible player, but what would you expect from a Portuguese footballer? I have no respect from a player like him.