When The Best Player On The Planet Was An 18 Year Old Street Footballer — Transcript

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1. 0:00so you know what upsets me outside of
2. 0:02Brazil no one ever talks about what a
3. 0:04teenage Ronaldinho was like people act
4. 0:06like he just showed up on day as a 24y
5. 0:09year-old ready to take the ball on door
6. 0:11when really at that point he had six
7. 0:13seasons under his belt with 287
8. 0:16appearances for club and Country and I
9. 0:18mean you know the guy do you really
10. 0:21think he was any different back then
11. 0:23read any old Brazilian newspaper and
12. 0:25they'll tell you he was already the most
13. 0:27entertaining player in the world the
14. 0:29world just didn't know it you see the
15. 0:32only story from back in his time in
16. 0:33Brazil that ever really hit the
17. 0:35mainstream is that at 13 years old he
18. 0:38made it to the newspapers after scoring
19. 0:3923 goals in a single match but that was
20. 0:43nothing even ronaldino was admitted that
21. 0:45those kids were terrible they were just
22. 0:47representing their school they had never
23. 0:49even been in a real Academy what really
24. 0:51made him a local celebrity from the time
25. 0:53he was 7 years old was that his brother
26. 0:55a was the Wonder kid himself back then
27. 0:59at just 17 years of age he was already
28. 1:01scoring in a final of the Brazilian Cup
29. 1:03to take Gru to the first title in their
30. 1:05history he was lining up for a transfer
31. 1:07to the sria he had scholar claiming he
32. 1:09was the biggest talent in Brazil but
33. 1:12regardless of any of that whenever the
34. 1:14Press would talk to their father it'd
35. 1:16always say a is very good but wait for
36. 1:19our little guy is the real star in the
37. 1:22family almost as if he was already
38. 1:25preparing the world for a future that he
39. 1:27unfortunately would not be part of
40. 1:30that same year after arriving home from
41. 1:32footall practice raline was greeted with
42. 1:34the kind of words no kid is ever
43. 1:36prepared to hear there was an accident
44. 1:39Daddy is gone his father had suffered a
45. 1:42heart attack fallen into the pool and
46. 1:44drowned still no matter how traumatizing
47. 1:47that was over the years there was one
48. 1:50piece of advice that was always the
49. 1:51first to pop into Ronaldo's head every
50. 1:54time he remembered them whenever you
51. 1:56play football play beautifully is dad
52. 2:00was a football fanatic I mean everyone
53. 2:03in the family was but that man he took
54. 2:05an extra job in his free time parking
55. 2:07cars at Kio Stadium just so he could be
56. 2:09closer to the club you see with a family
57. 2:12coming from Puerto algra right by the
58. 2:14Brazilian border they were closer to
59. 2:16ugai than they were to hu for one of
60. 2:18them to make it to the top of Brazilian
61. 2:20football was much more far-fetched than
62. 2:22it would be for any of the players that
63. 2:23would eventually line up alongside him
64. 2:26so 2 years later once all of his
65. 2:28brothers dreams slowly started to fil
66. 2:30following a devastating injury to honor
67. 2:32his dad's advice was to honor his memory
68. 2:35in Ronaldinho's own words every time I
69. 2:38had the ball at my feet it felt like he
70. 2:40was standing by my side it was no longer
71. 2:43just a dream it all became a mission so
72. 2:46over the next few years no matter how
73. 2:48many Academy coaches told him he was
74. 2:50just a street footballer that playing
75. 2:52like that he'd never become a proper
76. 2:54player he kept true to his father's
77. 2:56philosophy and by the time he turned 16
78. 2:59he was already Dawning that bright
79. 3:00yellow shirt assisting both of Brazil's
80. 3:02goals in their final against Argentina
81. 3:04to become an under 17 South American
82. 3:07champion and to make his way to the
83. 3:08youth World Cup where after two more
84. 3:11assists in yet another final Ronald
85. 3:13would be lifting the trophy alongside
86. 3:15his teammates right in front of the
87. 3:17pyramids of Egypt it just doesn't get
88. 3:19more iconic than that at this point
89. 3:22Grammy with no alternative but to put
90. 3:24him in the first team I mean from his
91. 3:27first training session with them all the
92. 3:28players were gos iing about him in the
93. 3:30locker room claiming that his family was
94. 3:32right that this one was the master of
95. 3:35the ball and so refusing to go easy on
96. 3:38him they put him straight into the
97. 3:39starting 11 for a couple Li to match
98. 3:41against vashko put him in charge of all
99. 3:43set pieces and he proved he was ready
100. 3:45right in and there first hitting the
101. 3:47crossbar with a free kick and then
102. 3:49putting in the corner that led to their
103. 3:51winning goal regardless even if a month
104. 3:54later Ronald would already be getting
105. 3:56his first goal with a screamer against
106. 3:57Squad Lara over that first season he
107. 4:00would struggle to get much playing time
108. 4:02falling out of favor with manager celo
109. 4:04ho who was frustrated by how often the
110. 4:06Federation would call him up to
111. 4:07represent the youth national teams but
112. 4:10no matter what the next year despite
113. 4:12missing out on the opening eight matches
114. 4:13of the gaoa championship to yet again
115. 4:16join Brazil for the under 20 World Cup
116. 4:18it'd come back after collecting the
117. 4:20bronze medal get introduced into the
118. 4:22team and go absolutely nuts scoring nine
119. 4:25goals in his first 10 matches at teao
120. 4:27Championship then watching his team lose
121. 4:29the quarterfinals first like in his
122. 4:31absence coming in for the second and
123. 4:33scoring twice to put them through as the
124. 4:35fans W quickly embraced them as their
125. 4:37new star player began mocking the
126. 4:39constant comparisons to the phenomenal
127. 4:41himself by chanting that he was not the
128. 4:43little Ronaldo but the better Ronaldo
129. 4:47and by the semifinals it' already be
130. 4:49scoring both home and away to put gry in
131. 4:51the final against the direct Rivals
132. 4:53International which would simply become
133. 4:55the match where Ronaldinho announced to
134. 4:57the entire country that it was the next
135. 4:59in line
136. 5:00that despite his age it was not to be
137. 5:02taken lightly going into the finals
138. 5:05first leg there was one international
139. 5:07player Ronald was keeping an eye on none
140. 5:09other than donga the captain of the
141. 5:11Brazilian national team who took the
142. 5:131994 World Cup title but as the local
143. 5:17newspapers were already labeling this
144. 5:19game as a matchup between old and new
145. 5:21outside of their state with Gru having
146. 5:23gone eight matches without being
147. 5:25International no one thought a Kate
148. 5:27could ever stand a chance against Tonga
149. 5:29and after Grammy took a first like
150. 5:31defeat as a frustrated Ronaldinho came
151. 5:33off the pitch complaining that his free
152. 5:34kick had gone in most assumed they were
153. 5:37right to doubt him but an now went to
154. 5:39that second leg he kissed the ball set
155. 5:41it down for another free kick and curled
156. 5:43it straight into the top Corner forcing
157. 5:45it all into a third match di breaker
158. 5:48look I genuinely think donga could have
159. 5:50had a shot at that final game had he not
160. 5:53made one massive mistake as he came off
161. 5:55of the second leg angry that the kid had
162. 5:57literally stepped on him he claimed that
163. 6:00this Ronaldinho is a poorly mannered
164. 6:02player in a decisive match he'll get
165. 6:05what he deserves and that made it
166. 6:07personal the kid had grown up collecting
167. 6:10Panini stickers with Dong's face on him
168. 6:12and now he was spending the whole week
169. 6:14watching his Idol drag him on live TV so
170. 6:17upset he showed his teammates a specific
171. 6:20dribble in training and told him if I
172. 6:22catch donga one-onone I'm going to pull
173. 6:24this trick on him going as far as
174. 6:27betting them dinner that he'd really do
175. 6:29it so
176. 6:30even once he made it pass four Defenders
177. 6:32to score the goal that left Grammy with
178. 6:34one hand on the trophy and Ronaldo
179. 6:36himself at the top of the goal scoring
180. 6:38shards that wasn't enough minutes later
181. 6:41like the Wild Wild West he found himself
182. 6:44one-on-one with donga and broke his
183. 6:46ankles with a driil so embarrassing even
184. 6:48his own mom said she didn't raise him to
185. 6:51be out and about humiliating people like
186. 6:53that and yet to make it all worse they
187. 6:56need pull a SoMo on him securing the
188. 6:58trophy as a fans ran into the pitch to
189. 7:00thank him and making sure to tell the
190. 7:02press that I could have done much worse
191. 7:05he actually got off easy I had several
192. 7:07Tribbles reserved just for him they all
193. 7:10had his name on them after that
194. 7:13performance Ronald with Vander shuro
195. 7:15beating himself up over the fact he'
196. 7:17locked in his cop America callup without
197. 7:19putting his name on it but thankfully
198. 7:21for him had dson pretty much incited a
199. 7:23riot by showboating in the middle of a
200. 7:25match so vaner used that as
201. 7:27justification to cross his name off the
202. 7:29list and bring Ronaldinho instead even
203. 7:32though at that point there were only 9
204. 7:34days left until the start of the
205. 7:36tournament the whole thing was so sudden
206. 7:39that Ronald was made aware of his call
207. 7:41up while he was still celebrating the a
208. 7:42Championship win live on TV at first
209. 7:45generally insisting that they had to be
210. 7:47pranking him though somehow 5 days later
211. 7:50he was already being brought into a
212. 7:52friendly against Venezuela for his
213. 7:53national team debut and I kid you not
214. 7:56with his first ever touch he lifted the
215. 7:58ball over Defender made it past another
216. 8:00and smacked in the F volley for his
217. 8:02first ever goal and though in that cope
218. 8:05America it still play a minor role as
219. 8:07ralon honald led them to the title just
220. 8:0910 more days after that final the
221. 8:11confederations cup began and there he
222. 8:14blew any expectations out of the water
223. 8:16in the first game he scored one and
224. 8:18assisted two to the molish Germany 4-0
225. 8:21in the second he got their only goal
226. 8:23against the United States to close out
227. 8:25the group he got another against New
228. 8:27Zealand and in the samis just wow 11
229. 8:30minutes in he had scored his first
230. 8:32before the first half closed he put in a
231. 8:34perfect cross for Alex in the second he
232. 8:37started off things by assisting another
233. 8:39then scor this sort of acrobatic goal
234. 8:42got one more assist as the game was
235. 8:43about to go into injury time and once
236. 8:46there the cherry on the cake he pulled
237. 8:48off maybe the goal of the tournament
238. 8:50three goals and three assists in an 8
239. 8:52to2 semi-final win a little more than a
240. 8:55month after his national team debut
241. 8:57never had a kid deserve to live the
242. 8:59trophy more than he did in that
243. 9:00tournament but unfortunately for him
244. 9:02neither the Golden Ball nor the Golden
245. 9:04Boot were enough to ease his pain as in
246. 9:06the final even after adding two more
247. 9:08assists to his they would lose
248. 9:11regardless still after starting the next
249. 9:13season with another absurd campaign at
250. 9:15the gushu championship finishing just
251. 9:17two goals of being the top scorer
252. 9:19despite missing out on a ton of matches
253. 9:21while he was out carrying the Brazilian
254. 9:22under 23es with nine goals and four
255. 9:25assists in just seven matches at the
256. 9:27pre-olympic tournament suddenly the
257. 9:29European clubs were all starting to make
258. 9:31their moves there were Scouts from
259. 9:33Barcelona Milan and halel PSV had made
260. 9:35it public they intended to make him the
261. 9:37heir toari when Ronaldo leads United
262. 9:39allegedly put down a 30 million euro
263. 9:41offer but Gru refused to budge instead
264. 9:45offering Ronaldinho the chance to Triple
265. 9:47his salary by signing a contract renewal
266. 9:50which was precisely when the situation
267. 9:51blew up ronaldino rejected the renewal
268. 9:55which alongside affected a law that
269. 9:57allowed players to negotiate free trans
270. 9:59once they were in the final months of
271. 10:00their contract was about to be put in
272. 10:02place meant that very clearly he and his
273. 10:05brother was now his agent were plotting
274. 10:07in exits so much so that Kus Bard made a
275. 10:10request straight to the president of
276. 10:12Brazil to delay the approval of the new
277. 10:14law regardless no matter how scared they
278. 10:16were even after a massively
279. 10:18disappointing Olympic campaign where
280. 10:20Brazil was knocked out by a ninan
281. 10:21Cameroon in extra time despite
282. 10:23Ronaldinho having come clutched with a
283. 10:25last minute goal once he made it back to
284. 10:27gramy to play the Brazilian championship
285. 10:29again he popped off eight goals in the
286. 10:32first stage and Once In The Knockouts he
287. 10:34scored their only goal in the last 16
288. 10:36first lag with a stunning free kick and
289. 10:38then saved them in the second assisting
290. 10:40the away away goal to put them in the
291. 10:41quarters where then he scored all three
292. 10:44of their goals a free kick then some
293. 10:46standard ronaldino magic and finally a
294. 10:48penalty that he won after putting his
295. 10:50teammate through with an incredible back
296. 10:52heeld touch suddenly they were only one
297. 10:54step away from the final but before
298. 10:56Ronaldinho could even get a hold of the
299. 10:58next match they were behind 2 nil he
300. 11:00tried to claw their way back going on an
301. 11:02incredible run to score one of the goals
302. 11:04of the season and then putting in
303. 11:06another free kick but in the end Grammy
304. 11:09ended up settling for a defeat
305. 11:10regardless thanks to a second lag
306. 11:12humiliation after that they had the
307. 11:15newspapers labeling them as Ronald dingu
308. 11:17football club as everyone could see that
309. 11:19there would be nothing without him which
310. 11:21would become a much more serious problem
311. 11:23when just a few weeks later after honald
312. 11:25narrowly missed out on the player of the
313. 11:27award toaru his contract reached its
314. 11:29final three months and PSG announced out
315. 11:32of nowhere that they were in
316. 11:33negotiations with him with a player who
317. 11:35had once claimed that for Gru he would
318. 11:38play for free suddenly everyone in
319. 11:41Puerto Leo lost their minds the club
320. 11:43delusionally still believing they had a
321. 11:45say in it even put up a banner in front
322. 11:47of their stadium that read we don't sell
323. 11:49Star players please do not insist but
324. 11:52really before they knew it he was
325. 11:54already giving interviews in front of
326. 11:56the Eiffel Tower leaving it all behind
327. 11:58and choosing to wait around in Paris for
328. 11:596 months rather than staying and dealing
329. 12:02with a hate which ironically only made
330. 12:05it worse as even after a whole lawsuit
331. 12:07gry ended up getting only 7 million for
332. 12:09his signing with honald dingu literally
333. 12:11being booted out of a nightclub the next
334. 12:13time he stepped foot in town no matter
335. 12:16what once in Paris the hype was gigantic
336. 12:19he had newspapers calling him the most
337. 12:20promising footballer on the planet the
338. 12:22fans were all raving that with aosa nelk
339. 12:25and Ronald up front they'd finally get
340. 12:27back to the top of French football but
341. 12:29even if at first that didn't happen with
342. 12:31their manager Luis Fernandez refusing to
343. 12:34rush foral to the starting 11 he did
344. 12:36eventually admit that those first months
345. 12:38were magical everything it Tred it get
346. 12:41right so once anela left in the middle
347. 12:43of the Season precisely at the same time
348. 12:45that aasha went out injured Fernandez
349. 12:48had no choice but to put Ronaldinho in
350. 12:49the driver's seat and right as the new
351. 12:51year started he exploded onto the scene
352. 12:55in the first match he scored the penalty
353. 12:57versus Monaco then he opened next with
354. 12:59an incredible finish through the
355. 13:00narrowest of gaps only to make that seem
356. 13:03completely unremarkable after running
357. 13:05past the whole team for his second which
358. 13:07ended up being named the goal of the
359. 13:08Season still the following game he
360. 13:11scored a free kick then the next penalty
361. 13:13and then another free kick against loia
362. 13:15as well as two beautiful assists to
363. 13:17demolished them 5- nil then one more
364. 13:20versus Bordeaux and finally to close out
365. 13:22his streak maybe his best performance of
366. 13:24the bunch making it past the entire TWA
367. 13:27Squad twice to score for two absolute
368. 13:30masterpieces as well as two more
369. 13:32incredible assists one there and another
370. 13:35the following match making it 11 goal
371. 13:37contributions in 10 League games that
372. 13:39finally brought PSG into the top four
373. 13:41and into the UFA cup spots earning him
374. 13:44enough credibility that once the World
375. 13:46Cup started Scolari was left with no
376. 13:48option but to start him in every game
377. 13:51right from the getg go he was dribbling
378. 13:53circles around any Defender before he
379. 13:55could get the ball off him by the second
380. 13:57game he was already getting first goal
381. 13:59in assisting ralo which he did again in
382. 14:01the round of 16 and by the quarters if
383. 14:04there was any doubt in anyone's mind
384. 14:05that he could hang with the all time
385. 14:07greates that were lining up beside him
386. 14:09once Brazil went into the second half
387. 14:11down 1-0 to England for what seemed like
388. 14:13the 100th time that year he grabbed the
389. 14:16ball and made it past their entire team
390. 14:17before sliding it off to assist rialo
391. 14:19for the third consecutive game and just
392. 14:225 minutes later before the fans even had
393. 14:24time to calm down he scored such an
394. 14:26unbelievable free kick that he had every
395. 14:29commentator in utter shock refusing to
396. 14:31believe he had even done it on purpose
397. 14:33and though the reporters would not be
398. 14:34able to ask him themselves as minutes
399. 14:37later it strangely gets sent off and
400. 14:38brought in for an anti-doping test
401. 14:41eventually he would break it down in an
402. 14:43interview claiming that while watching
403. 14:45the footage of their games I noticed
404. 14:47that keeper liked to come off his line
405. 14:49so I went for it and 7 days later after
406. 14:52sitting out their semi final versus
407. 14:53Turkey he came in for the most important
408. 14:56game of his life and honestly this is
409. 14:58one of those those things that will be
410. 14:59forgotten by history but it was
411. 15:01incredible that day twice he left
412. 15:03Ronaldo oneon-one with KH another one of
413. 15:06his passes that his teammate hit the bar
414. 15:08but as much as he wasn't quite able to
415. 15:10get his name on the headlines he was now
416. 15:12world champion and by the end of the
417. 15:14year he'd be 12th on the balar rankings
418. 15:16no matter how often his own manager at
419. 15:18PSG would complain about him saying he
420. 15:20was more interested in the Parisian
421. 15:22night life in football or that
422. 15:24Ronaldinho only shows up for the big
423. 15:26matches because in reality Fernandez was
424. 15:29the one who was notoriously hard to
425. 15:31please when actually looking back at his
426. 15:33performances it's impossible not to see
427. 15:36that Ronaldinho was incredible right
428. 15:38from October he got things going with a
429. 15:40classist finish against Tua the next
430. 15:42game he gave them their first win over
431. 15:44Rivals Mar in two years scoring twice
432. 15:47one of them being a free kick from a
433. 15:49seemingly impossible angle then came an
434. 15:51assist in each of the two games that
435. 15:53followed before going on a run with a
436. 15:55goal against Monaco and further assist
437. 15:57against Leon bordo and Li bringing it
438. 16:00all up a notch by scoring what was quite
439. 16:02literally the goal of the Season against
440. 16:04rbas janga and then going into an away
441. 16:07match against Marseilles intercepting
442. 16:09the ball as usual running the whole
443. 16:11length of the pitch in order to score
444. 16:13and somehow before the end of the match
445. 16:15doing it all again them near mocking the
446. 16:17keeper before going around him only for
447. 16:19his teammate to pretty much steal his
448. 16:21goal as he led PSC to their first win at
449. 16:23the stad vadam after 14 years and
450. 16:26completed a streak of 14 goal
451. 16:28contributions in 14 league matches still
452. 16:32somehow taking it all a step further
453. 16:34once again by coming up against bordo in
454. 16:36the French cup semi-final and man I'm
455. 16:39almost tired of saying it he just did
456. 16:41what he does best going past everyone
457. 16:44scoring and then killing off the game
458. 16:46with a ridiculous chip from outside the
459. 16:48box sadly he would end up losing the
460. 16:51finals somehow coming out trophyless
461. 16:53regardless but it really didn't matter
462. 16:55because meanwhile in Spain Hanan Laport
463. 16:57had won the elections at Barcelona and
464. 16:59having promised the fans he'd bring back
465. 17:01him to the club he found himself with
466. 17:03his back against the wall the momental
467. 17:05beat him to the signing but thankfully
468. 17:07for him it was right there that one of
469. 17:09his right-hand men Sandra hosel
470. 17:11suggested the signing of Ronaldinho as
471. 17:13an alternative leading Barcelona to come
472. 17:15in with a 35 million euro offer to
473. 17:17snatch him right out of the hands of Sir
474. 17:19Alex Ferguson when he was just 48 hours
475. 17:22away from signing with United and look
476. 17:24the day signed they had Real Madrid
477. 17:26Executives mocking Barcelona claiming
478. 17:29there was no point in buying him since
479. 17:30he's so ugly it's sinky as a brand
480. 17:33pundits on TV were agreeing climing
481. 17:35laort had betrayed the fans that his
482. 17:37signing was a mere copout but well a
483. 17:40year and a half later Ronald was the new
484. 17:42FIFA World Player of the Year and when
485. 17:44it comes to that Ren recognition he was
486. 17:46on the cover of FIFA he was the most
487. 17:48loved player on the planet