Notes: When he was young, he was a young man who once promised to be the best in the world.
Colombia eliminated Uruguay and advanced to the Copa America final. James Rodriguez assisted in the victory and was subsequently elected as the best player after the game. This is the fourth time that the 32-year-old Ronaldo has been selected as the best player of the America's Cup.
So far in this America's Cup, Ronaldo has had a perfect performance of 1 goal and 6 assists. If it weren't for this outstanding performance, people would have forgotten about him.
How strong was he ten years ago?
html At the age of 221, he was worth as much as 40 million. At the age of 22, he won the World Cup Golden Boot, leading Colombia to the quarterfinals of the World Cup. At the age of 23, he joined the best club in the world and won the No. 10 jersey.
is good-looking and good at football. In current terms, he is a superstar with huge traffic.
At that time, Modric did not qualify in the Brazilian group, and he was completely unworthy in front of him. Even the equally outstanding De Bruyne was slightly less coquettish than Ronaldo.
To this day, Magic Flute and Tintin are still competitive. The amazingly talented J Lo back then was not only unable to gain a foothold in a wealthy club, but was also returned by various clubs. He has long lost his former glory.
j Luo made his debut in Envigado, Colombia. In 2008, he joined Banfield in Argentina. In 2010, he landed in Europe and joined Porto.
relied on his wonderful performance in the "European Black Shop" and transferred to Monaco for 45 million euros three years later. In July 2014, Ronaldo joined Real Madrid.
In Real Madrid's first season, the team took advantage of the power of the Champions League championship and made great progress on all fronts, winning 22 consecutive victories.
The coach of Real Madrid at the time was Ancelotti. Everyone knows that An Pang is best at using the attacking midfielder. Back then, he arranged four No. 10s in Milan. At Chelsea, Lampard was also at the forefront of the diamond midfield, allowing the Blues No. 8 to score 20+ goals in the league. show.
Ronaldo, who wears the No. 10 jersey, also plays well in Ancelotti's tactical system: The Colombian, who is behind the BBC, is responsible for the frontcourt connection and secondary attack, and is the offensive commander of the team. In this position, he fully displayed his offensive talents:
short passes, forward attacks, explosive long shots, except that he is not fast enough to play wingers, he can be said to be proficient in everything. Coupled with his youthful and domineering youth, who dared to grab and fight, the defensive problems that were later criticized were not obvious, and occasionally he would stage a one-stop score. contributed 17 goals and 18 assists in a single season, which is quite amazing.
Spatial insight, comfort in catching the ball, creativity, this is where I think Ronaldo is better than Coutinho, who is also from South America.
The proud J Luo
However, the good times did not last long. With the injury of Magic Flute and the collapse of Real Madrid at the end of the season, Anshuai also dismissed get out of class sadly.
So the Colombian's "comfort zone" was gone. Benitez and Zidane, who later took over the team, didn't like players like James Ronaldo who were arrogant and free-spirited.
Benitez prefers to establish Bale as the core, Zidane prefers an all-round midfielder: In his carefully matched midfield trio, one is responsible for horizontal involvement, widening the field and transferring. (Kros), the other is responsible for vertical movement, tearing apart the defense and making direct passes (Modric), and the last one is responsible for sweeping the midfield and backfield (Casemiro). has no place for J Luo at all. Even if he has to send in an attacking midfielder, Qi Zu prefers Isco, who has excellent breakthrough ability.
So after two years of wasting time on the bench, the Colombian core regretfully left Bayern.
In his first season at Bayern, Ronaldo was lucky enough to meet his mentor Carlo Ancelotti. Heynckes, who took office later, also gave Ronaldo enough respect. Ronaldo, who returned to the center, did not live up to the coach's trust. handed over 7 goals and 11 assists throughout the season, and was also rated at the end of the season. The best midfielder in the Bundesliga.
In the Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid, Ronaldo served as the starting midfielder in the 4231 formation.
However, Ronaldo did not continue his outstanding performance. The sea coach officially retired after the season and Kovac took office. Under the scientists, Ronaldo rarely had a chance to play. After the season, he was not bought out and returned to Real Madrid. At the familiar Bernabeu Stadium, only the bench greeted him.
0-21 season, Ronaldo does not plan to waste time with the giants. He chose to join the mid-range Premier League team Everton because Ancelotti, who understands him best, is there. The Colombian's career with the Toffees started with highs and lows, from being amazing at the beginning to being plagued by injuries in the middle, to Anshuai's failure after class.
In just one year, he cycled through half of his career again.
In fact, in La Liga, Bundesliga, and the Premier League, Ronaldo had the opportunity to correct and change his career trajectory, but he "perfectly" missed it.
Initially, Ronaldo's loss of the main position in Real Madrid was related to injuries. Under normal circumstances, players will choose to actively recover and try to maintain their physical condition during the recovery period.
But Ronaldo is an exception. He not only gained weight during the injury, Even after returning from injury, his body fat rate reached 13%, which shows that he has extremely poor self-discipline and lacks respect for his profession.
Even the chosen ones like Kaka failed to gain a foothold at the Bernabeu due to injuries. Why did the naive Ronaldo think that the team would always wait for him? In addition, j Luo's career has not reached the height it should have, and affair and scandal also played a certain role.
Originally, he had an enviable love. However, in 2017, because of Ronaldo's affair during marriage, his wife Ospina was disheartened and announced her breakup on her personal social account.
According to media reports, at least two beauties, Venezuelan model Lima and sexy Russian supermodel Love Katie, have had affairs with J Lo, and this may be just the tip of the iceberg. No one knows how big the iceberg is hidden beneath the water. have no idea.
Of course, the most important thing is that his technical characteristics have been abandoned by modern football.
j Luo Gang had a certain speed and vertical dribbling ability when he debuted. He was particularly good at forward scoring, but his passing skills were not full, which made him closer to a shadow forward or a number nine and a half;
In the middle and late stages, he gradually retreated , when operating the offense as the commander tower, although has good vision and can often make wide-range transfer passes, still cannot reach the level of a classic attacking midfielder due to his lack of ability to break through and dribble, get rid of the ball and control the rhythm of the game. "Requirements",
In addition, he has the common problems of classical attacking midfielders: occupying the ball, weak physical confrontation, and slow ball handling speed. He is not as good as some "classical attacking midfielders".
Think about it In today’s football world, there is no market for masters like Riquelme, let alone a “low-end version” like Ronaldo who “doesn’t have the destiny of a classical attacking midfielder, but suffers from the disease of a classical attacking midfielder” Grandmaster"?
In short, if you say he is a modern midfielder, he does not have the speed and coverage ability, nor can he assume certain defensive tasks; if you say he is a classical midfielder, his dribbling and rhythm control are not enough.
His essence is still biased towards the attributes of a "scorer", but it is equivalent to being positioned further back and having stronger passing ability.
Today, there is no such position among the giants, so he can only live in the West Asian and Greek leagues.
Why are we so worried about Ronaldo's career? It's just because he was so amazing when he debuted, which gave us too much expectations for him. The ball king dare not say it, but it reaches the level of De Bruyne and Modric (the entire The height of a career (not just the peak period) is something I dare to imagine.
We thought he should have a better future.
But in fact, J Luo in 2014 may already be the best J Luo.
In that year, he was wandering in the scene of Japanese players helplessly chasing back. With a flick of his ankle, he made a light move and changed the score; The best memories about Brazil.
When J Luo is thirty-three years old, what mood should we use to recall the stories he once brought us. And what fragments of the past will flash in his mind? Is it familiar or strange? Is it warm or bitter? Is it nostalgic or telling yourself that you should eventually forget it.
I don’t expect Ronaldo to return to the top. I only hope that he can rediscover the joy of football in a lower-level league.