Despite playing in a strong Internazionale side for 5 years Ronaldo, the nostalgia scam artist, never managed to win Serie A and his only achievement was winning a UEFA Cup? The most iconic moment happened in his final season shortly before fluking a World Cup vs Belgium and Turkey, and the subsequent move to Real Madrid to be part of the Galacticos We got to the last matchday looking like this >1 Internazionale (69)>2 Juventus (68)>3 Roma (67)Which meant that was only the third (?) time 3 teams had a chance of winning the league by the last round. All teams would decide their fate away from home>Juventus played Udinese>Inter played Lazio >Roma played TorinoAnd all games at the same time>11 min in and Juve was cruising for a ez win, Del Piero and Trezeguet scored >HOWEVER 11 min into the Inter match Vieri scored from a corner meaning they were first again but Poborsky tied shortly after>Inter scored from another corner but again, Poborsky, the cech mad man tied after a bizarre blunder from Inter defence and the first half ended 2-2
2nd half>Inter was visibly nervous, that was the third year of Massimo Moratti administration and so far they only had one a UEFA Cup so there was a lot of pressure, this could be the first scudetto since 1989>With Juve's win, Lazio was sure they weren't helping Roma, their eternal rivals to win the title and came back to the 2nd half more relaxed >8 min into the 2nd half DIEGO SIMEONE scores to seal the comeback, Inter got even more nervous and was pressured in the following minutes>Meanwhile, Roma scored at Comunale di Torino, Cassano>Back to Inter's game, Aparecido César dribbled Zanetti and crossed for an easy Inzaghi tap in, 4-2>A few minutes later, Hector Cuper ended Fatnaldo's disaster class early with a sub at 77th minutesRonaldo's tears in the bench were the cherry on top of Juve's 26th scudetto And that's the story of how Inter went from 1st to 3rd in the last round of Serie A 2001-02>Table1. Juventus 71pts2. Roma 70 pts3. Inter 69 pts>Top scorerTrezeguet and Dario Hubner with 25 goals>Other interesting facts>Newly promoted Chievo was top of the table for six weeks early in the season, they dropped in form after christmas but still finished 5th>Fiorentina went bankrupt and was placed in the 4th tier of italian football>Dario Hubner from Piacenza was the oldest Serie A top scorer so far, with his 25 goals at 35 yo (record later broken by Luca Toni at 38)
>>151451680He was healthy for 1.5 out of 5 years he played for inter
>>151451680I am a Juventus fan and fully admit some of those games were influenced by bribery.
>>151451680Did you already get bored of talking shit about ronaldinho?
>>151460330This, I'm sick and tired of flexing our wins when our guys were buying refs and were roided up to the gills
He didnt win much and thats not a secret. The conversation has always been about his peak vs other greats. R9 was dragging a broken club. People act like his time at Inter proves he was overrated, but Inter were a disaster during those years. Moratti spent a fortune with zero plan. the usual constant managerial changes, inconsistent squads, and a dressing room that collapsed under pressure every season. Ronaldo joins after winning the Ballon d’Or at 21, scores 34 goals in his first season, wins the UEFA Cup basically on his own, and becomes the face of Serie A. He was hyped for a reason. The guy was getting hacked down weekly in the most defensive league in the world, and still looked untouchable. Then he blows out his knee TWICE and somehow comes back to win the 2002 World Cup and Golden Boot. That’s not a flop story that’s a miracle. Inter’s collapse wasn’t his fault. They were mentally weak, tactically chaotic, and lacked the backbone of a real contender until Mourinho fixed the culture a decade later.His real peak was at Barcelona in 1996–97. He was 19, scored 47 goals in 49 games, and made world-class defenders look like amateurs. That season alone got him a Ballon d’Or. Watch the tapes. nothing is hidden its all there. there’s nothing like it before or since. And players that actually played with or against him says. Seedorf, Maldini, Zidane. Robson. All give him the highest of praises. Calling him a fraud is tonedeaf.
>>151451680He had two severe knee injuries which got him 3 years out of play
>Blows up his knees and tendons>Still end up being the best player at the 2002 World Cup>Still win ballon dor
>>151451680Team sport.
>>151451680You missed out on the best things1. Lazio fans openly threatened the Lazio players in the week before the final matchday and telling them not to pose any threat to Inter (there is an ongoing twinning between the two fan bases of Lazio and Inter)2. The stadium going completely silent when it became clear that not all Lazio players on the pitch (Simeone and Poborsky most notably) were willing to throw the match3. Materazzi crying on the pitch while asking Lazio players to literally let Inter scoreSo, not only was Ronaldo the symbol of a defeat that marked a watershed moment for Serie A (after losing this league race, Inter's owner began to spy on his opponents in an illegal dossier operation that would culminate in Calciopoli years later), but he was also able to leave no dent in a match that, in fact, had all the makings of a fixed farce.
