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Real Valladolid have confirmed that Brazilian legend Ronaldo Nazario  is selling his majority stake in the club, after six ...
In the first edition of GOAL's Hall of Fame, we induct Brazilian legend Ronaldo, who changed the game forever either side of the millennium ...
In four and a half seasons in the Spanish capital, Ronaldo, affectionately known as R9 and 'Il Fenomeno', scored 103 goals, becoming the fifth foreigner at the time to have netted a century for ...
as “Ronaldo Fenomeno.” The goal truly worth remembering is a fairly typical sort of a strike. In the second half of a UEFA Cup match between his Inter Milan team and Spartak Moscow ...
“The nickname originally came from Italy, the Italians started to call me ‘Il Fenomeno’,” Ronaldo Nazario tells The Athletic, explaining the origins of the old nickname that has now become ...
Ronaldo grew up supporting Flamengo, an all-conquering machine in the 1980s, and idolising Zico. Sonia dos Santos Barata was incessantly infuriated to find her son skipping school to play football ...
And when Manchester United legend Ferdinand had asked him if he had ever experienced that internal division in his squads, Capello instantly replied: “Yes, Ronaldo Fenomeno.” Capello ...
Soccer fans often find themselves embroiled in debate over which modern star—Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo—is the GOAT, or “greatest of all time.” For Kaká, a former star midfielder ...