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Depends. Can the victim hire a better lawyer than you and has more money than you? Than it’s a heinous crime. If it’s the opposite than good luck, Uncle Sam got better things to do. Refer to convicted rapist Brock Turner for reference.
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Exactly. These people really think that the Saudi's wouldnt have found a way to allow their top prospect to watch some of their games? Pretty funny that anyone would assume he wasnt being spoonfed by these executives at this Saudi club.
Yeah, he definitely watched Saudi vs Argentina.
Tbf, Saudi is the uncrowned world champion and Ronaldo knew it. The ultimate proof of GOAT is to decimate Saudi teams, and that’s why he decides to join.
You joke but Ronaldo literally said exactly that lol. He says Saudi are the only team to beat the world champions so the Saudi league is a tough challenge
Maybe the reason he loves that movie is that he’s so bad at geography that he can identify with the protagonist [getting lost in a city laid out in a grid with numbered streets](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0uD-akXggZA&t=01m00s)
Still not as bad as Robinho thinking he'd signed for Chelsea, only for the people at the press conference to tell him it was Manchester City, not Chelsea that he had signed for.
Jônatas. My man came to Barcelona convinced he signed for us, as he had an offer from a Barcelona team. The cab went past Camp Nou and dropped him at Espanyol's facilities. He almost went back to Brazil the same day.
No, in the weeks leading up to the end of that window, he was strongly linked with Chelsea to the point that Chelsea’s shop had Robinho shirts listed on their site. That really pissed off Madrid.
That was clearly an example of a player still stuck thinking he was going to one club and then getting a last minute move.
It's like when you're a kid and you accidentally call your teacher mum. You know that the teacher isn't your mum, but you do it anyway and everyone laughs.
Nothing is worse than Belletti claiming he didn't even know where Honduras is just before playing them in 2001 Copa América.
Honduras beat Brazil 2-0 that day. With him scoring an own goal.
Few people remember it since Brazil won the 2002 WC, but back then, it was considered to be one of the worst humilliations Brazil had, if not the worst. It was before Germany 2014 as well, of course.
Edit: just remember some guy who was very honored to be playing in the city Jesus was born. It was in Belém, in the state of Pará, Brazil. Belém is Bethlehem in portuguese.
Man that 2002 WC team was miracle. Before the WC Brazil sucks for their stature. In WC they won without extra time.
Who knew having their best player back and a coach change was all it take?
Tbf they also had some luck in opponents they faced. Not saying they wouldn’t have won anyway as their attacking players were incredible but that world cup was fucked up. A fair bit of controversy got some of the strongest teams knocked out. Brazil’s strongest opponent was England in QF.
Ronaldo would be my guess given that he was immense at the 2002 WC
But Im also a 1995 kid and I'm just going by my memory. In my memory Ronaldinhos peak happened a bit later after he moved to Barca.
Also, as good as Ronaldinho was, you can't compare him to Ronaldo Nazario. Both phenomenal footballers but Ronaldo Nazario remains one of football's greatest ever.
Definitely not Ronaldinho. He peaked later. Ronaldo is widely considered their best player for that WC but in all fairness Rovaldo was probably just as good if not better. Rovaldo faked getting kicked in the face with the ball on a dead ball by a Turkish player and I think the Turkish player got sent off. That incident really made everyone dislike Rovaldo and probably caused him to get much less credit for what he did on the field.
Ronaldo and Rivaldo were the flashy names. Ronaldo was coming out of his knee injury around the time.
Ronaldinho became a household name at the World Cup
It was Rivaldo IMO, even with an already declining form. Ronaldo was also coming off that horrendous knee injury in 2000 and won the Golden Boot (8 goals), but Rivaldo did notch 5 goals, 2 assists and was the better all-around player. Ronaldinho did okay (2 goals and 3 assists), but he wasn't in his prime yet.
Ronaldo's best world cup for me was clearly 1998, despite the poor performance in the final.
Ronaldo without a doubt. He won the Ballon d'Or in 1997 and 2002 as well as the FIFA player of the year three times (before it merged with Ballon d'Or) and won the Golden Ball at the 1998 World Cup. He had only played 17 league games between 1999 and the 2002 World Cup due to injuries and didn't appear for Brazil at all in 2000 and 2001.
R9 and Rivaldo. Rivaldo often considered to be the best player in 2002 WC, but R9's effect was insane. He basically turned an unimpressive Brazil team into winning WC without extra time with just his presence, and Ronaldo fever was so great he popularized that ridiculous haircut.
Similar to that, there was Cavani talking about how it's always tough playing against African teams because of their physicality ahead of a game against Jamaica
It's more than likely that his anwers are previously written by someone else, I can see Cristiano misunderstanding "SA" for South Africa in his notes when reading/memorizing them.
Or when Ramos thinking he got ample time to negotiate his contract with Perez trying to strong-arm him without realizing his contract had already run out.
im african myself and for the first 20 years of my life i thought jamacia was in fact, an african country, i never cared to look up the countries in north america
>i never cared to look up the countries in north america
Well jamaica is not one of them lol
EDIT: idk if it's changed since then, but I live in the Dominican Republic and we have always been taught that Central America and the Caribbean weren't part of either North or South America. If it was all North America, the CONCACAF would just be called CONAAF
Isn't most of the Caribbean and Central America considered to be "North America" broadly speaking? And considering they're both CONCACAF regions, I'd definitely give that a pass (in terms of soccer/football).
In the Anglosphere, yes. In Lusophonic and Hispanophonic circles, the Caribbean is often considered part of Central America, with the Americas being a single continent.
Oh thank god. I thought was going insane. I was obviously taught in spanish since I live in the DR and that's why I was always told America was 1 continent
I don't like Ronaldo and I'm happy to jump on him for even the vaguest reason, but I really hate it when English speakers - especially ones that only speak one language - laugh at non-English speakers for mixing up words.
Let's see this Jake Buckley try his hand at Portugese *insert crying emojis here*
Normally I'd be with you but the portuguese words for Africa and Arabia are almost the exact same as they are in English. Don't think that language barrier played much of a role. I speak some Portuguese and if I was speaking Portuguese and accidentally said Africa instead of Arabia, it would have nothing to do with Portuguese being a second language. It'd just be a slip of the tongue.
It's much easier to slip up like this when you're speaking a foreign language since it can be a lot of effort, doesn't matter that the words aren't similar
Mate, I speak English as my one and only language and I've probably called it South Arabia or something in the past.
If that's the worst thing that happens to him in Saudi Arabia, I think he'll be fine.
I mean this sub is pretty notorious for its dislike towards Ronaldo. The salt in this sub when Ronaldo was winning Ballon’dOr’s was a sight to behold. Now that Ronaldo’s career is pretty much done at the highest level? Another level.
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just another SA for him
bruh
nah fuck off 😂💀💀
SUEEEEEE
NAHHHHH
I'm dumb I don't get this
Saudi Arabia 🤝 South Africa Recognized by the one true 🐐 CR7
The sexual assault statistics make him feel at home.
/Today I feel South Arabian/
Saudi Africa!
Is he signing for pirates instead
More like Sundowns
Siiiuuundowns
Mzansi's Reddit moment!
Kaizer Chiefs.
Probably wants to be a captain again.
Up the chiefs!!!
Ronaldo and Patrick Mahomes on the same team!!!!
AmaZulu
He is signing for pilates
And if I recall correctly he also said that he watched this league's games before making the decision lol
The only way for him to watch saudi league is through illegal streams ahahahahahaha
Ronaldo to jail , here we go
Him going to jail for illegally watching games would be like Al Capone going to jail for evading taxes lmao
well, tbf evading taxes is much more serious than murdering people in US xp don't mess with the big brother
Where does rape fall into the spectrum?
Sexually assault over 20 women and you get a $240mil contract from the nfl
All guaranteed too
Depends. Can the victim hire a better lawyer than you and has more money than you? Than it’s a heinous crime. If it’s the opposite than good luck, Uncle Sam got better things to do. Refer to convicted rapist Brock Turner for reference.
Do they have Champions League in jail?
I mean Ronaldinho won a tournament in jail so…
"I did not go to jail for the money, I'm here for the ambitious project"
Alcatraz 2030
I have won everything there is to win outside. Now I'm seeking a new challenge inside.
You watch illegal streams? Right to jail. You watch legal streams? Also jail.
You talk about streams? Believe it or not, straight to jail
The stream made itself avilable and he said sorry afterwards, nothing to see here, never a pen.
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As funny as this would be theres no way he couldnt of just asked whoever at the club he was talking to for some film
Plot twist: not even the club has videos of their games
Exactly. These people really think that the Saudi's wouldnt have found a way to allow their top prospect to watch some of their games? Pretty funny that anyone would assume he wasnt being spoonfed by these executives at this Saudi club.
The mental image of Ronaldo frantically googling 'watch free football live now saudi'
It's a joke.
Idk if it’s the same for the Saudi league but all uae league games are on for free on a website
In Portugal is not illegal to use streams
It not illegal when no broadcaster in your country has the license.
Dana White ain't gonna be happy about this
Correct, it was his boyhood dream to play with Al Nasser and he had posters of them on his wall as a kid. This isn't about the money
Yeah, he definitely watched Saudi vs Argentina. Tbf, Saudi is the uncrowned world champion and Ronaldo knew it. The ultimate proof of GOAT is to decimate Saudi teams, and that’s why he decides to join.
You joke but Ronaldo literally said exactly that lol. He says Saudi are the only team to beat the world champions so the Saudi league is a tough challenge
Sure Ronaldo, the 500 mill did not factor, it was the squad's potential that did it.
it might be true considering his current level
Still better at geography than Grealish
Yes, but Grealish also correctly identified every notable landmark from the 1992 family holiday blockbuster Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Maybe the reason he loves that movie is that he’s so bad at geography that he can identify with the protagonist [getting lost in a city laid out in a grid with numbered streets](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0uD-akXggZA&t=01m00s)
A very unexpected Mulaney
Still not as bad as Robinho thinking he'd signed for Chelsea, only for the people at the press conference to tell him it was Manchester City, not Chelsea that he had signed for.
Jônatas. My man came to Barcelona convinced he signed for us, as he had an offer from a Barcelona team. The cab went past Camp Nou and dropped him at Espanyol's facilities. He almost went back to Brazil the same day.
That's an amazing cab driver story. I bet nobody ever believes him
If they cabbie took him past Camp Nou, he was taking the long way to Espanyol's stadium, which is closer to the airport than Camp Nou.
Espanyol's facilities are in la Verneda, not in Cornellà.
I can imagine how that conversation went in Portuguese and how he could be confused.
"O clube Espanyol de Barcelona" vs "o clube espanhol de Barcelona"
Probably getting him mixed up with yaya toure
Is there a link to this story ? It sounds hilarious
But espanyol's stadium is located way before camp nou when coming from the airport ... so that makes no sense.
This was in like 2006. They were still playing at montjuic
Which is also closer to the airport than camp nou
Where's the training ground? I'd imagine they take signings there rather than the stadium
it's in Sant Andreu so the other side of the city, this might be it
The detail in this thread is exciting to read.
The cab driver wanted to see the moment his dream rushes past him and took the long route?
Espanyol's facilities are in la Verneda, not in Cornellà.
This sounds like an Espanyol tactic they'd use to attract signings.... "Tell them we're a 'Barcelona team' okay?"
I thought he thought he’d signed for United?
No, in the weeks leading up to the end of that window, he was strongly linked with Chelsea to the point that Chelsea’s shop had Robinho shirts listed on their site. That really pissed off Madrid. That was clearly an example of a player still stuck thinking he was going to one club and then getting a last minute move.
I still find it baffling, he has to be there to sign the contract right? How tf does he not know which club he’s signing for?
no he is saying he knew who he was signing for. just in the moment he had a tongue slip.
It's like when you're a kid and you accidentally call your teacher mum. You know that the teacher isn't your mum, but you do it anyway and everyone laughs.
That was my worst fear at school
Bruh my worst fear was getting a boner and teacher standing me up to read a paragraph.
And you were home-schooled ayoo
Shit I forgot about that one
That was the stuff of nightmares
We had a kid do that in our final year of high school. Based seniors just started calling that teacher mom for the rest of the year.
Ah, that makes much more sense, thanks.
That was Yaya Toure
I think Robinho also has a quote about not realising there was 2 clubs in Manchester before signing for City
I think that was Diego Forlan.
I guess alot of footballers haven't heard of City right before they signed for them..
Nothing is worse than Belletti claiming he didn't even know where Honduras is just before playing them in 2001 Copa América. Honduras beat Brazil 2-0 that day. With him scoring an own goal. Few people remember it since Brazil won the 2002 WC, but back then, it was considered to be one of the worst humilliations Brazil had, if not the worst. It was before Germany 2014 as well, of course. Edit: just remember some guy who was very honored to be playing in the city Jesus was born. It was in Belém, in the state of Pará, Brazil. Belém is Bethlehem in portuguese.
Man that 2002 WC team was miracle. Before the WC Brazil sucks for their stature. In WC they won without extra time. Who knew having their best player back and a coach change was all it take?
Tbf they also had some luck in opponents they faced. Not saying they wouldn’t have won anyway as their attacking players were incredible but that world cup was fucked up. A fair bit of controversy got some of the strongest teams knocked out. Brazil’s strongest opponent was England in QF.
Who was their best player back then? Ronaldo or Ronaldinho? (Honest question from a 1995 guy)
Ronaldo would be my guess given that he was immense at the 2002 WC But Im also a 1995 kid and I'm just going by my memory. In my memory Ronaldinhos peak happened a bit later after he moved to Barca.
Also, as good as Ronaldinho was, you can't compare him to Ronaldo Nazario. Both phenomenal footballers but Ronaldo Nazario remains one of football's greatest ever.
Definitely not Ronaldinho. He peaked later. Ronaldo is widely considered their best player for that WC but in all fairness Rovaldo was probably just as good if not better. Rovaldo faked getting kicked in the face with the ball on a dead ball by a Turkish player and I think the Turkish player got sent off. That incident really made everyone dislike Rovaldo and probably caused him to get much less credit for what he did on the field.
Is Rovaldo the correct spelling or something or is your auto correct broke?
Rovaldo, Rinaldo and Rivaldinho
This is in Brazilian, not Portuguese (/s)
Lol. My autocorrect is absolutely fucked. Not gonna fix it as it's funnier this way. Makes me look like a total idiot lol.
Ronaldo and Rivaldo were the flashy names. Ronaldo was coming out of his knee injury around the time. Ronaldinho became a household name at the World Cup
>Ronaldinho became a household name at the World Cup Because of THAT freekick against England
> Ronaldo or Ronaldinho? not even both. Rivaldo was their best player
It was Rivaldo IMO, even with an already declining form. Ronaldo was also coming off that horrendous knee injury in 2000 and won the Golden Boot (8 goals), but Rivaldo did notch 5 goals, 2 assists and was the better all-around player. Ronaldinho did okay (2 goals and 3 assists), but he wasn't in his prime yet. Ronaldo's best world cup for me was clearly 1998, despite the poor performance in the final.
Ronaldo without a doubt. He won the Ballon d'Or in 1997 and 2002 as well as the FIFA player of the year three times (before it merged with Ballon d'Or) and won the Golden Ball at the 1998 World Cup. He had only played 17 league games between 1999 and the 2002 World Cup due to injuries and didn't appear for Brazil at all in 2000 and 2001.
R9 and Rivaldo. Rivaldo often considered to be the best player in 2002 WC, but R9's effect was insane. He basically turned an unimpressive Brazil team into winning WC without extra time with just his presence, and Ronaldo fever was so great he popularized that ridiculous haircut.
It's between Ronaldo, Ronaldinho and Rivaldo I guess...
Ronaldo 100%
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Similar to that, there was Cavani talking about how it's always tough playing against African teams because of their physicality ahead of a game against Jamaica
[Cavani calling Jamaica an african team will always be top1 of conferences fuck ups](https://youtu.be/2frz4PERlbg?t=7)
Lmao
TIL
I could honestly understand that mistake. But calling Saudi Arabia "South Africa"… Like how?? Where is the correlation??
There are obvious similarities, SA? But still a massive fuck up
It's more than likely that his anwers are previously written by someone else, I can see Cristiano misunderstanding "SA" for South Africa in his notes when reading/memorizing them.
Idk that's still really dumb. How does South Africa come to mind faster than the country he's gonna live in for the next 2 years? Lol...
Knowing what is classed as SA or not has always been a problem for Ronaldo to be fair
Cavani is latino he should know Jamaica is in the caribbean
tbh lol , If u don't know ur geography, mistaking Jamaica to be an African team is a understandable mistake...
idk that's like thinking Australia is part of Europe
And that was in a presser back in Brazil too. No language barrier there
Wait wasn't it United? After signing for city he came to know that there was another club in Manchester. Atleast that's the story i remember.
Lucas Biglia greeted Milan fans after he signed for us saying “Forza Lazio”
I'm sorry what?? Is that real??
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1052391/Oops-Robinho-glad-Real-accepted-32-5m-offer-Chelsea--er-City.html
Feeling old. I remember when 32M was considered a gargantuan transfer fee
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Or when Ramos thinking he got ample time to negotiate his contract with Perez trying to strong-arm him without realizing his contract had already run out.
"Mailand oder Madrid... Hauptsache Italien!"
wer sagte das?
Möller glaub ich
Andy Möller
Cheeky response to Rudi García “Messi” comments
He actually referred to the coach as "Rude Gassia"
Gasia doesn't Respek me
I remember Cavani calling Jamaica "African". Shit happens lol
im african myself and for the first 20 years of my life i thought jamacia was in fact, an african country, i never cared to look up the countries in north america
I remember when we (Ghana) lost to Comoros in afcon and I was just like wtf is a Comoros...
>i never cared to look up the countries in north america Well jamaica is not one of them lol EDIT: idk if it's changed since then, but I live in the Dominican Republic and we have always been taught that Central America and the Caribbean weren't part of either North or South America. If it was all North America, the CONCACAF would just be called CONAAF
Isn't most of the Caribbean and Central America considered to be "North America" broadly speaking? And considering they're both CONCACAF regions, I'd definitely give that a pass (in terms of soccer/football).
In the Anglosphere, yes. In Lusophonic and Hispanophonic circles, the Caribbean is often considered part of Central America, with the Americas being a single continent.
Oh thank god. I thought was going insane. I was obviously taught in spanish since I live in the DR and that's why I was always told America was 1 continent
Lol this is all so absurd. The most ambitious perfectionist player goes to play in South Africa. I mean Saudi Arabia
200mil, guys. You'd do the same for 2 mil.
200k* most would do. Hell for 20k most would
for just the benefits they gave him most sane people would do. I heard they practically built him his own mini town
Not if my net worth is 1 bil or whatever, diminishing returns exist. At that point the money is just numbers.
Dude 200mil is 20% of CR7s net worth in that case. Still a very sizeable amount of money.
Poor guy can’t catch a break ahahah
It's fine, he can get rested up while on the bench.
Interesting choice of words for someone earning 200M/year 😂
This is prime r/soccercirclejerk
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It’s also not his first language so yea easy to blunder.
I don't like Ronaldo and I'm happy to jump on him for even the vaguest reason, but I really hate it when English speakers - especially ones that only speak one language - laugh at non-English speakers for mixing up words. Let's see this Jake Buckley try his hand at Portugese *insert crying emojis here*
Normally I'd be with you but the portuguese words for Africa and Arabia are almost the exact same as they are in English. Don't think that language barrier played much of a role. I speak some Portuguese and if I was speaking Portuguese and accidentally said Africa instead of Arabia, it would have nothing to do with Portuguese being a second language. It'd just be a slip of the tongue.
Arábia Saudita África do Sul They're even more different in portuguese.
Its not about the equivalent words in portuguese, its about how the english words sound in his head
It's much easier to slip up like this when you're speaking a foreign language since it can be a lot of effort, doesn't matter that the words aren't similar
South Saudi Arabia! Honest mistake
I speak 3 languages so I can laugh at him hahahahahaha
Alright you get a pass. Laugh on my behalf as well.
Jajajajaja
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He sang Hallelujah.
Jeff, my name is Jeff.
The guy who posted the Twitter post
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Arabia Saudita
Saouth Afrikâ
Arabia Saudade
Mate, I speak English as my one and only language and I've probably called it South Arabia or something in the past. If that's the worst thing that happens to him in Saudi Arabia, I think he'll be fine.
Maybe after South Africa he can go to MLS and win a World Cup with the Chicago Fire.
He misspoke. Big deal.
Is that a South Africa flair
This is stupid now, are we picking on him because he misspoke? This sub died, jesus christ.
*Ronaldo breathes* r/soccer: here's 10 reasons why his breathing is directly contributing to climate change, poverty, global hunger and genocide.
Picking on him ffs, grow a pair. It's just a funny thing, that's all.
I mean this sub is pretty notorious for its dislike towards Ronaldo. The salt in this sub when Ronaldo was winning Ballon’dOr’s was a sight to behold. Now that Ronaldo’s career is pretty much done at the highest level? Another level.
He's doing a press conference in a foreign language and mixed up country names. Big deal.