seen it before. pure skills, totally awesome!

oops, sorry. didn't know this was old.

i like the bit where he puts his shoes on

maybe he'd win a talent show but hes not the best footballer ever and he never has been at any one time
maybe he has good tricks but there are alot of ppl who are/were better at taking on people and scoring goals, and at the end of the day thats what matters

who for example?

george best, thiery henry, wayne rooney, ronaldo (brazilian, not that joke at manu)

Ronaldinho won the award of best Striker in the UEFA Champions League tournament of 2004/2005 and he has already scored 4 goals in the currently 2005/2006 Champions League edition.

Not only he scores goals but he assists like no one. Last year he won the trophy for best player in the world (henry 2nd) and this year he's favorite for taking it again.

If you think the FIFA World Player of the Year is bullshit I guess you'll like to know that he also won recently the FIFPro award for best player in the world which is voted by 38 thousand professional players from 40 different countries.

What's Rooney?

rooney is a child with A.D.H.D.

and that makes him a bad player?

it makes him a liability

haha rooney and henry?!?! you couldn't come up with better goalgetters than that? van basten, batistuta, romario, baggio, rossi, etc.

besides, you cant say being the best equals scoring the most goals, because then only strikers would fit.

best is best end of discussion kthxbye

did I say anything about best? learn to read.

i can read perfectly fine thx
george best is the best end of discussion kthxbye

idiot.

I do believe Henry is the only player in history to win the Golden Shoe two seasons in a row and he has scored 30+ goals for four consecutive seasons. You just seem awfully biased towards players that didn't play in the Seria A. And Rossi is a match fixing cunt of a cunt.

im just biased against english based players :D

of teams that can do well in the CL, premier league has 4, serie A has 2.

WHAT? the PL has ONE that can win it and 2 mediocre teams. serie a has 3 that can win it and 1 mediocre.

i can justify my answer. Man utd have always done well in the CL and i think that'll continue as long as they play to their strengths. Chelsea can obviously win it. Liverpool are the holders, and they always seem to perform on CL nights, despite being awful in the PL. Arsenal are making a habit of at least reaching the knockout stages, and their league form is poor atm but as liverpool have shown, league form says nothing about CL form. Udinese are underequipped and inter are habitual underperformers, as are Arsenal; but if u include inter then i can include arsenal :) 4 > 3?

i wouldnt underestimate udinese ;)

and even though pool won it last year i dont think they'll last long this year. united usually gets knocked out in the round of 16, same with arsenal. milan and juve always gets far.

look at last year for example, juve and inter completely destroyed their groups and milan had little trouble, while pool, united and arsenal barely qualified.

in the its probably just a matter of opinion anyways, so i guess well agree to disagree.

united usually get knocked out in Q-finals, not last 16.

so i guess well agree to disagree

agreed

dude your forgetting the best players all times PELE and MARADONNA!?!?!?!?

ok i forgot pele :(

but i wasnt listing GR8 PLAYoRS m8!!!!!!! was listing strikers :p

they both played defence?

?

pele was a striker and maradona played midfield.

hence his sarcasm

excellent sarcasm. i applaud him.

you seem pretty good at it too

:>

at the end of the day he's one of the best, and you can say he is the best if you want :)

*edit* holy shit. :)

you're clueless.

most people on irc agreed it's a fake as this is just another nike commercial? the way the ball bounces back is a bit weird wouldn't you say? :}

i fall for every commercial out there, so ronaldo has to be the best player ever especially if nike says so.

CGI!

boring

I remember this ad from years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=...%20amazing

Can't believe they are all old school now :(

fake as mentioned, if it hadn't been for the ridiculous bouncing off the goal three fucking times I'd have never guessed but especially at the very end the movements of the ball get very strange. But damn that vid is hella nice :)

Fake? Hardly. Check the higher quality and you'll si it's not. If you say it is still, prove it.

http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3399543

stop faking its not a fake

How about proving it's real? I fix my judgement on the unnatural movement and the sheer impossibility of hitting a goalpost that way perfectly 3 times in a row. It's a great ad, but it's an ad, it's their business to exaggerate and in a certain sense lie to you.

Okay if this isn't fake then Ronaldinho isn't the best player in human history... cause he ain't human =)

However, this is probably more fake than Jessica Simpsons voice.

he doesnt even hit the goal :<
isnt he supposed to do so in football? :p

Before I even read the comments I felt certain that this has to be fake (although its impossible to say for sure).

Anyone whos ever played football knows how hard it is to hit a goal post from that distance when you aim at it. (it becomes oddly easier when you're aiming for the goal :s)

Hitting it 3 times in a row like that on the volley, and getting that kind of bounce back is beyond skill :>

i think is easier to hit it on the volley then from the ground.

It might seem that way, but it isnt.

When the ball is stationary, you only have to consider the aiming of your foot and the correct spot to hit the ball (which is hard enough as it is) and of course the weight of your kick.

When the ball is falling you have to consider the above, but also you have to time it perfectly so that your foot connects precisely with the correct part of the ball at the very right moment. Also, the ball could be spinning or falling in a certain way which makes you have to re-calculate the correct spot to hit the ball.

I agree that's easier to aim the post when the ball is stationary.

But when Ronadinho kicked the ball he not only wanted to hit the post but also that the ball had enough power to came all the way back to him so that he could control it on the chest. So I think that in this case hitting the ball when it's falling is the best opition.

I don't know if this is real or not but players like him have been playing soccer since they were 5 years old... to tell you the truth I think this is doable. And if this is really fake if there are anybody capable of doing it, it's him.

I agree its doable, of course it is! But the chances are so slim, even for a professional that it becomes almost unbelievable :p

I've played football since i was about 7, and I'm always happy just to hit the crossbar when I aim for it from that distance, let alone make it bounce back to wear im standing, do a few keepy uppy's and then repeat the impossible move 2 more times :>

But as you say, its doable, and if theres anyone to do it, it's this guy :>

they don't have to calculate anything, they just go by feeling and experience. besides, he is controlling the ball at all times, he's not going to make the ball spin.

Sorry but they do have to calculate :p but you're right, they use feeling and experience to influence the accuracy of that calculation.

Like firing a rocket in q3 :> Sure a lot of it is feeling/experience buth without the fundamental calculation of opponents speed/direction you've got no hope :p

Also, unless the balls stationary, it's always spinning slightly which makes hitting a volley a bit harder than a dead ball.

your brain is a computer; i'd agree with him on that one

ronaldinho is a god of football and a magician with the ball.
only a complete moron can say otherwise.

no offense.

who said he isnt?

some people said he isnt the best player ever, no one said he isnt great...

Football player technically superior to Ronaldinho simply doesn't exist.
There are many who can do all kinds of tricks, but he's not human. Even though he hasn't won Champions League yet, doesn't mean he's not the best ever. Cause he surely is.

he surely is the best player ever? you are nuts. so ....theres no point talking to you about it.

Technically, he is the best player ever.

I'm not comparing him to Pele or Maradona, i'm just saying that noone can do the stuff he does, simple as that.

wow ur a real moron, thats quite alot of shit ur talking there. gj. loads of people can do trick exactly the same as him LOADS. and in game theres been alot of players better then him, but maybe in the future he will be known as the best ever, but will have to w8 coz he isnt yet.

blablabla, another vague comment about 'loads' of player better then him. piss off.

of course they can. now die of stupidity, pls, ok?

if you think they cant, then you have no idea about football at all.

omg i'm so not into replying constantly, but ronaldinho is there, and we see him do his magic. You, on the other hand, just ASSUME that someone else EXISTS who can do tricks like him. And BTW, he does that IN OFFICAL MATCHES vs REAL OPPONENTS, and not on the street.

So much about knowledge of football.

ur propa mental. tons and i mean 10000's of people can do tricks like him, yeah not in games ect, but thats not even the point. i said tons of people can do them, you said they cant... ur nuts. ect ect.

u need therapy.

agreed, what a retard.

Definately a fake.

With the power of his first shot, the ball would never have bounced back to him.

I believe he is able to hit the bar 3 times in a row but surely not to control the rebound.

play more ice hockey!

Can i just point out the part where he rebounds off the bar, has been edited ( from many attempts), no way cud he hit the bar from the distance he is in 3 times in a row, the ball height angle ( which wud mean he'd have to reposition is foots angle and leg power) are varied each time, and where the ball hits it needs to be the perfect angle to rebound the ball back to his chest. For those who play football should have realised this. If this was genuine he would be able to score a goal everytime hes in the enemies half.

hehe very nice video , but its a fake :D

Some guy named "Mack Daddy"

Those are some crap boots if he can't score!

Looks like fake to me, but after it exploded on the internet, Ronaldinho was interviewed by spanish reporters and said vehemently that it's not fake, even laughing due to their insistence, saying he does that all the time when practicing, and saying its a TV footage taken exactly for the web, commemorating his new 'shoes'.

http://esportes.terra.com.br/futebol/copa2006...83,00.html

Woah, it's so sick if it's real; i wanna know :)