Ronaldo: Incredible video of Brazilian legend scoring goals that 'shocked the world' | OneFootball

Earlier this week, Thierry Henry claimed Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima was the ‘real Ronaldo.‘

When questioned whether he’d asked any player to swap shirts with, Henry replied: “Ronaldo. R9. The Real Ronaldo. For me, how many Ronaldo’s did you know growing up?”

Henry is right, too.

While we’ll stop short of dubbing the Brazilian the ‘real Ronaldo’ he definitely is the ‘original Ronaldo’.

Long before a certain Cristiano Ronaldo entered our lives, Ronaldo was one of the best strikers football has ever seen.

PSV, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Real Madrid, AC Milan – Ronaldo played for some of the biggest clubs around Europe.

While his career was stunted by damaging knee injuries, he was the best player in the world early in his career winning two Ballons d’Or in 1997 and 2002.

Ronaldo isn’t in the GOAT debate but he really should be.

And if there’s one video that sums up his brilliance, it’s the one that has been posted on Reddit this weekend.

Titled ‘Ronaldo Phenomenon, goals that shocked the world’ the nine-minute video shows some of the greatest goals during the striker’s legendary career. It shouldn’t take a video to show everyone just how good Ronaldo was but this really does the job.

VIDEO: Ronaldo – goals that shocked the world.

Take a look:

Check out some of the comments on the Reddit thread as fans rushed to praise Ronaldo.

One wrote: “It’s absurd how calm he is on some of these goals, no panic or rush even with defenders bearing down on him like he’s already planned the next 3 moves and how he’ll score before touching the ball.”

“Younger people will never understand why this man is rated higher than Lewa, Suarez or, for some people, even two GOAT’s of either current time or the two previous GOAT’s,” another added.

“I actually believe Ronaldo had a strong hatred for goalkeepers,” a third joked.

Another simply wrote: “Best striker ever and it’s not even close.”

A fifth summed it up by saying: “He is the goat imo. Simple.”

The ‘original Ronaldo’ may not be the GOAT but he should definitely be in the conversation.