Yes, his brutal changes of direction with the left foot are often more efficient than his actual step over. Also, it's just a compilation where you don't see the many times where he lost the ball because the defender went left at the same time as him. Even on this video, you can see he was in trouble when the defender didn't bite on it, he just sprint left and force a shot, and everybody thinks the step over made the difference.
Occassionally he would go right, as in some of his famous goals where he would veer towards the center rather than the flank of the penalty box. This has always been my recommended approach because you open up the angle to the goal rather than closing it + more ability for collaboration. Even if the ball lands more near the goofy foot. Anyway and other times he would just run straight through you, in between 2 defenders, or give a panna. The man was a storm. I'm realizing sometimes soccer players we learn the stepover, but it's not just the stepovers or the amount, it's the pace and what you're able to do in-between the stepovers. The feints, the pseudo-taps, the rolls to maintain speed, Ronaldo mastered it like noone else.
No its about the angle 📐 and its a coincidence the clips you see are posed such that hes to the left of the goal post. He could go right if he wanted to. As long as he sees an opening. Facing a well executed stepover/scissors is really overwhelming… you engage too soon , you will 100% miss. You wait too long , thats just giving them more options.
The greatest forward to have ever played in my opinion. Could have been the greatest of all time had he not tore his patellar tendon twice. There is a reason why people clamored and talked about him when he was in his prime. He makes elite strikers like Lewandowski and Harry Kane and the likes today look average.
Dribbling pointlessly and wasting more chances does not make you a better striker. He's not a better striker or else he would score more goals. He's more a winger anyway.
you know why i love this? because any goaltending coach has told their goalie to cut down the angle, but when he's near you, you may as well cash your chips in
0:34 this is the masterpiece that I liked he did stepovers then body feint that's why I love because when I try body feint after my stepovers i always can't control my body but this one is my fav
R9 - no one does it better. All these comparisons to other players, please! Show me one person who has as many step overs against goal keepers for goodness sake. No one has scored more after a dribble than R9 thus making him the most effective as well. A lot of players can do step overs in an open field or in one on one situations, but honestly R9 was a different breed. Some forget he was a front man and usually operating in the most crowded places. Hands down the greatest dribbler of all time. Everyone would be talking of him as the GOAT right now if not for his injuries.
I think greatest stepovers kings are imo, in order of the best: Ronaldo, then Figo, Then Ronaldinho. Ronaldo did have the qualities of Figo and Ronaldinho: when he does the step over, the ball sticks near his foot like he never pushed it, and with the speed execution of Ronnie, no wonder defenders like Thuram and Desailly were saying it was like the ball disappears, magic... Without a doubt, best pure striker to ever grace this sport till now.
There’s absolutely no way to correctly guess what he’s gonna do because I noticed he doesn’t have a single set step over. He has several different ones, he does the 1 step over but he also does the 2 and 3 and also a 1 step over followed by a short flick of the ball over the defenders foot. He has a million different moves to attack u with and the worst part about it is that u don’t know what he’s gonna do. A nightmare for defenders.
@@Tejasmawai No Messi's Talent is on par with R9 Ronaldo His speed was Mbappe's speed on steroids, so much so that you needed a Bugatti to outrace him and has the stepovers and skillset equivalent to CR7 Fun Fact: Messi's Second Idol was Ronaldo Nazario But if you are joking with me I will find you and I will sue you!
Creepy Pazta nope..style is different sir..R9 will give a slight body feint while leaning forward and in most of the cases he will move opposite leaving the defender back..bt cristiano do not go like that..
Very true. C. Ronaldo doesn't beat defenders like Phenom Ronaldo with his stepovers consistently. Brazilian Ronald in his prime would beat defenders with his step overs vertically, whereas C. Ronaldo's stepovers are just for show.
Ronaldo has the perfect stepover and he is also the king of stepovers. But CR7 is now the king of stepovers because he can do the skill both perfectly and speedfully.
I have seen C.Ronaldo do 20 stepovers and the defender is still in front of him. Real Ronaldo does 1 stepover then it is byebye defender. C.Ronaldo has no clue when it comes to efficiency!
Notice the difference on their postures when doing the stepovers, R9 was ready to pounce while CR7 was just standing doing circus. Even other players are mocking the way he does it. Also FYI R9 before injury was MUCH faster than CR7, google it. It's just he could hide his real speed well and accelerate to max speed at will. And that's the point, the key to good stepovers is to do it slowly to bait enemies to take your ball, and when they do that you switch up to your real speed and outpace them. CR7 doesn't get this, so much inefficiency and unnecessary sheet
@@baliDOTid CR7 is too tall to perform stepover with body fient and he performs it quickly. In Man u he did stepover perfectly and dribbled many players.
You'd be making the correct one :) I still love Cristiano's stepovers though too. People say they're not effective but there's plenty of videos with him going past defenders with them. Plus Cristiano's are super fast. But R9's are probably still better...
90% of the time he went left after the stepover, yet defenders couldn't anticipate that. What is incredible is Ronaldo was right footed, but his left was almost as good, otherwise he wouldn't be as effective after going left post steopver.
That’s a great opening , legends Thuram and Desailly couldn’t see the ball I think that’s worth a ballon d’or when your peers can talk like that about you
They said "He goes left".. but in front of him defenders like 😵💫 they could'nt stop him.. all his videos play in slow motion to see what he did.. "phenomenon"..💪
@@jeannieschaldach2034 tf it's not about show boating it's to get pass players you can go and watch cr7 to see a bunch of them which turns out to go no where
The ones on 0:35 are slightly better, he has his body positioned over the ball which gives more power as opposed to when you have to 'kick out' a bit , this way he powers it with more speed. Like a flash.
I have seen C.Ronaldo do 20 stepovers and the defender is still in front of him. Real Ronaldo does 1 stepover then it is byebye defender. C.Ronaldo has no clue when it comes to efficiency!
Dinho stepover is a bit effective compared to robinho and cristiano He invented a stepover deriative where when he was standing with the ball he slowly push the ball using the inside of his feet then stepover it and lean towards left, Mbappé does it too nowadays
Hossam can you upload ronaldo(luis figo allstars) vs mcdonald's 02/07/2005 charity match, ah i was forgetting: great video, i hope the stupid copyright will not give you anymore bother :)
Even more impressive than feints and sleepovers was Ronaldo's ball control at very high speed. No wonder Ronaldo was great, but I think Adriano could have been better; as Zanetti once said, he was a mixture of both Ronaldo and Ibrahimovic, with a much more powerful shot and physique!
The defenders know that it's left side Ronaldo chooses when he does step over but they don't know if he is going to do a step over or just turn to right. So the direction actually don't matter.
People will always have they’re goats 🐐 I believe no one is the greatest of all time it’s a personal opinion debate, the player that you grew up watching that makes you feel like a kid in the park when you watch them play and for me r9 will always be my 🐐
Interestingly Ronaldo only really started doing stepovers when he was at Inter. He then perfected the multiple stepovers when he played for Madrid. You hardly ever see him doing stepovers before his time at Inter.
@@CCCoNeTiMe Wow, you found one example of him performing one stepover at Barcelona. I never said that he didn't do any before, but he really only started doing them regularly with Inter and later. I know almost all of his matches, so don't tell me stories.
You are right. I think he invented to face THE BEST DEFENDERS of Italy. He needed to be more effective rather than beautiful to play against Maldini, Nesta, Cannavaro and so on....
Aung Ye Tun exactly the same with Maradona at Napoli he said he had to do everything faster because the defenders were simply too good and would always be there and they most of the time would actually foul him.
He started to do more stepovers at Madrid because he lost his speed. So instead of bulldozing the defenders like in his early days, he relied more on wrong footing the defenders.
He mostly goes left because defenders would prefer to push him to dummy the ball to the left side where his left foot is weaker than his right foot. So defenders were ready to commit to intercept a right sided Puah from a stepover. However this is not a problem for Ronaldo who could score from the angle from a right side or drive in with the left side. In most cases Ronaldo was more than happy to drive left further to provide and assist into the penalty box for an incoming forward or attacking midfielder to connect with his pass or cross
Not really. He goes left because he's right footed. When you dribble with your right it's much more natural to do the first step over with your right and then go left or straight with your left foot. To go right you need to do a second step over with your left, which he sometimes did, but he seemed to like more the single step over. Check also Ronaldinho's step over, it's the same thing just not as smooth as this magician (but still excellent, both were explosive with their first step which is key for this to work well)
CR7 would do 10 stepovers against a player and still be in the same position and look like a giraffe with fast feet. I can guarantee you about 99% of his goals had no stepovers. R9 would do 1 stepover get past 1 defender, do another stepover get past another defender, do 3 stepovers to get past 1 defender and a keeper. What I'm saying r9 did stepover for a purpose, cr7 looked stupid imo and uneccasarry and irratic.
Thats.the site off a delusional man who has never seen Ronaldo play watch the video on legusus channel u will be caught looking goofy it's called Ronaldo's step over are better than r9's
@@claudecarlyle9284 first off ur just down right bluffing right now and if u do step overs on the wing the job is to push the ball forward so u can create space for a cross or a inverted run, for a cut back, Ronaldo was only intercepted once in a while stop lying.
@@idontcarethatyoudonthaveam1262 Ronaldo lost the ball relatively often, that's what I mean by intercepted. Stepovers are generally inefficient - especially with CR's habit of overextending the knee and taking too long to beat one man (a clever defender won't mind being humiliated if he's bought enough time for his teammates to reset the block, pick up Ronaldo's teammates, close space for Ronaldo himself to run into after the 1-on-1, etc.). Even though the 1999 Beckham/2006 CR7 winger of crosses into the box (Ronaldo was already moving away from that by 07/08) has been replaced by inverted wide-forwards (which Robben/CR helped pioneer), underlapping/overlapping and long-passing fullbacks and free-roaming false 9s, Ronaldo always had a habit of running the down the wing without mapping the pitch. The best dribblers can drive towards Zone 14 (central) - this is much harder than wide because outnumbered, less space and time, BUT the advantage is that a successful dribble or throughball in this Zone increases the likelihood of a goal far more than any other area of the pitch, so Messi (or Hazard, Baggio, Gascoigne, Zola) emphasises dribbling and playmaking here partly because he's lost the pace to go wide, but regardless of speed his close-control and vision are devastating in close-quarters despite it being more technically demanding and riskier (and he can pick out runs of wide players - Alba, DiM). The advantage out on the wings is that it is easier to complete a dribble because it's less crowded and opponents can be isolated into duals and races - the disadvantage is that, to quote Cruyff, the best defender in the world is the white line around the pitch, so you're effectively cutting off half your body viz. passing options. Of course, wingers stretch the pitch and the opposition during 3-on-3s, counters, overloads, 50/50 transitions, etc. - which is why you don't want a row of Messis; you still need the fullbacks and wingers to provide that wide outlet. But Ronaldo went wide even when he could cross early or pass to the overlapping fullback, or drive/pass centrally into the final third, hence Rooney's regular frustration, and even out-wide he often took too long to release the cross, to beat his man, ran towards the cornerflag, hence RVN's frustration. When he had vertical space during stretched transitions, he was capable of driving centrally (06 Fulham, Villa, Villarreal 09) but his dribbling close-control and playmaking were never elite. To be fair, his game could have been refined assuming he was capable of humility and playmaking, but I'm skeptical of both. He always struggled with mapping the pitch.
Ronaldo is right footed, and he always cuts in to the right. The step over was his 2nd option. As a defender you had to either defend him cutting in or stepping over and because he was too fast, you’d fail either ways. Mission impossible.
He almost always went to the left. The defenders knew it, but they couldn't do anything about it. It's so weird 🤔 When they can defend the left side perfectly, he went to the right.
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People saying he would always go left, he would you just wouldn’t know when
The moment when you are the least expecting it. Truly one of the most gifted player technically with Ronaldinho I ever watched in my life
just like messi
And Robben's cutting in
Yes, his brutal changes of direction with the left foot are often more efficient than his actual step over. Also, it's just a compilation where you don't see the many times where he lost the ball because the defender went left at the same time as him. Even on this video, you can see he was in trouble when the defender didn't bite on it, he just sprint left and force a shot, and everybody thinks the step over made the difference.
Occassionally he would go right, as in some of his famous goals where he would veer towards the center rather than the flank of the penalty box. This has always been my recommended approach because you open up the angle to the goal rather than closing it + more ability for collaboration. Even if the ball lands more near the goofy foot. Anyway and other times he would just run straight through you, in between 2 defenders, or give a panna. The man was a storm. I'm realizing sometimes soccer players we learn the stepover, but it's not just the stepovers or the amount, it's the pace and what you're able to do in-between the stepovers. The feints, the pseudo-taps, the rolls to maintain speed, Ronaldo mastered it like noone else.
He makes stepovers look like art. It’s so effective. Dinho is close second for me.
Robinho better than ronaldinhyo sorry 🤔🤔
@@csv7835 at step overs yes
But ronaldo is better than all of them at step overs
Cr7 is number 1 in stepovers, this guy is second.
@@haziri5118 Ronaldo does step over and then passes back
He went left most of the time and defenders still knowing that couldn't stop him. What a player
Cuz of the pace
Defenders know that it's left but they don't know if he is going to do a step over or just turn to right.
even if you know he will go left, if you move too early, you leave the space and he will go right, if you wait the right moment it will be too late
@idontcarethatyoudonthaveam1262 no that's is cr7
No its about the angle 📐 and its a coincidence the clips you see are posed such that hes to the left of the goal post.
He could go right if he wanted to. As long as he sees an opening.
Facing a well executed stepover/scissors is really overwhelming… you engage too soon , you will 100% miss. You wait too long , thats just giving them more options.
Il doppio passo più bello, più veloce, più perfetto... Ronaldo Fenomeno the best for ever !!!
The best striker the world has ever seen
The greatest forward to have ever played in my opinion. Could have been the greatest of all time had he not tore his patellar tendon twice. There is a reason why people clamored and talked about him when he was in his prime. He makes elite strikers like Lewandowski and Harry Kane and the likes today look average.
True, he is striker who doesn't just wait for the perfect final pass, he can drive incredibly with ball at insane pace. And score
tbh lewandowski in his current form I think is a better finisher but Ronaldo had the whole package.
@@anab0lic you can think whatever you like…Ronaldo is the best #9 there’s ever been
Dribbling pointlessly and wasting more chances does not make you a better striker.
He's not a better striker or else he would score more goals.
He's more a winger anyway.
@@KingKuba1313this is the dumbest comment I’ve ever read
How does he do that? Genius, absolutely genius.
Ronaldo the boss. Cruzeiro the biggest.
Christiano owns the boss sui
you know why i love this? because any goaltending coach has told their goalie to cut down the angle, but when he's near you, you may as well cash your chips in
0:34 this is the masterpiece that I liked he did stepovers then body feint that's why I love because when I try body feint after my stepovers i always can't control my body but this one is my fav
R9 - no one does it better. All these comparisons to other players, please! Show me one person who has as many step overs against goal keepers for goodness sake. No one has scored more after a dribble than R9 thus making him the most effective as well.
A lot of players can do step overs in an open field or in one on one situations, but honestly R9 was a different breed. Some forget he was a front man and usually operating in the most crowded places.
Hands down the greatest dribbler of all time. Everyone would be talking of him as the GOAT right now if not for his injuries.
Still bro he is the greatest goat
U woke up and decided to speak facts
The real goat. Best defensive players of all time during his career
no one could do step over perfect like him
I think greatest stepovers kings are imo, in order of the best: Ronaldo, then Figo, Then Ronaldinho.
Ronaldo did have the qualities of Figo and Ronaldinho: when he does the step over, the ball sticks near his foot like he never pushed it, and with the speed execution of Ronnie, no wonder defenders like Thuram and Desailly were saying it was like the ball disappears, magic...
Without a doubt, best pure striker to ever grace this sport till now.
He is the god of stepovers!!!!
And he is my favourite legend
not one dislike, love it.
i love these stepovers compared to cristiano's... his bother me, these are fluid
cristiano's aren't fluid because his feet move so damn fast, idk why that'd bother you.
@@2007-c4n They move fast but go nowhere 😂
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a. babatunde Go watch Cr7 from when he was in Manchester United , and come back later.
Agree.
R9 actually passed players and created chances and goals with his stepovers, CR7’s stepovers are just showboating but not dangerous.
There’s absolutely no way to correctly guess what he’s gonna do because I noticed he doesn’t have a single set step over. He has several different ones, he does the 1 step over but he also does the 2 and 3 and also a 1 step over followed by a short flick of the ball over the defenders foot. He has a million different moves to attack u with and the worst part about it is that u don’t know what he’s gonna do. A nightmare for defenders.
Coach says he always goes right, Ronaldo proceeds to go left.
He could go any way he fucking wanted!
*Cr7 left the chat*
Bro cr7 looks much better than this fatass when he does stepovers smh
@@それは私です-o4h hum... no sorry, R9 is the best about stepover
Cristiano Juve no he doesn’t you’re just another one of these CR7 fangirls
Who?
@@それは私です-o4h Oh shut up twat
Pure joy to watch
He is not a king The EMPEROR 🌹🌹
3 seasons injured as well best number 9 ever
CR7 Stepovers => Easy Just press him back.
El Fenomeno Stepovers => This is danger
King of stepover
0:01 Lol Completely wrong
left ronaldo but right defender
😂😂😂😂😂how does he do that 😂😂Genius
In Indonesia we call it samba samba ronaldo..
Yes my like was 1000th like
he always go to the left, but defender can not defence R9.
Watch 1:24 and 2:31. He goes right too. But his fluidity of motion was to the left.
The creator of step over skill, ronaldo nazario de lima from brazil
Can I know name this song please❤
For his playing position, I expected him to be among the greatest goal scorers... But wasn't.
Fu fu fu fu..legendary comment..😆
Porpularizr it
R9
CR7'S SKILLS
MBAPPE'S SPEED AND TALENT
DRIBBLING OF MESSI
Ok so you mean-
Cr7 and messi don't have talent 😂😂
Wow 👏👏
@@Tejasmawai No
Messi's Talent is on par with R9 Ronaldo
His speed was Mbappe's speed on steroids, so much so that you needed a Bugatti to outrace him and has the stepovers and skillset equivalent to CR7
Fun Fact:
Messi's Second Idol was Ronaldo Nazario
But if you are joking with me I will find you and I will sue you!
and sterling injure
I think those step overs are the reason his knee got Acl injury
No not really
Fantastico👽⚽️
Bruh Ronaldo and Ronaldinho were childhood.
He is stepıvee genius
BRAZIL RONALDO IS THE DISCO DANCER OF SOCCER
I thought cr..ronaldo is the king of step overs but i think he is second
same style as cristiano ronaldo....woah just observe his dribbling style also...straight up....mystery solved....cristiano inspired by ronaldo...XD
Creepy Pazta christiano didn't pass the defender like ronaldo did
raskie irawan thats truee
yes of course but cristiano would never acknowledge the truth.....because he is a phoney egoist
Creepy Pazta nope..style is different sir..R9 will give a slight body feint while leaning forward and in most of the cases he will move opposite leaving the defender back..bt cristiano do not go like that..
Very true. C. Ronaldo doesn't beat defenders like Phenom Ronaldo with his stepovers consistently. Brazilian Ronald in his prime would beat defenders with his step overs vertically, whereas C. Ronaldo's stepovers are just for show.
His style is more like cr7 but perfect
hahaha cr7
cr7 is nothing compared to him lmao
Just occurred to me, after step overs, he only goes left, never inside.
Affordable Appliances that’s cos the defenders covered the middle so he always went left
Stronger foot...plus u don't know when he's taking the ball that way...and his speed is crazy
Watch 1:24 and 2:31.
Robinho
Whats the music?
CR7 does stepovers on the spot, doesnt beat the defenders. Only to beat the defenders with either a chop, his speed or a pass LMAO
0:54
Ronaldo has the perfect stepover and he is also the king of stepovers. But CR7 is now the king of stepovers because he can do the skill both perfectly and speedfully.
not true, it looks so funny when cr7 trying to do stepovers :D
I have seen C.Ronaldo do 20 stepovers and the defender is still in front of him. Real Ronaldo does 1 stepover then it is byebye defender. C.Ronaldo has no clue when it comes to efficiency!
Notice the difference on their postures when doing the stepovers, R9 was ready to pounce while CR7 was just standing doing circus. Even other players are mocking the way he does it. Also FYI R9 before injury was MUCH faster than CR7, google it. It's just he could hide his real speed well and accelerate to max speed at will. And that's the point, the key to good stepovers is to do it slowly to bait enemies to take your ball, and when they do that you switch up to your real speed and outpace them. CR7 doesn't get this, so much inefficiency and unnecessary sheet
@@baliDOTid CR7 is too tall to perform stepover with body fient and he performs it quickly. In Man u he did stepover perfectly and dribbled many players.
@@ABC-ov9tl r9 = 183, cr7 = 187 cm "too tall" ok bro..
Cristiano's stepovers are a fucking joke compared to R9
He actually always goes to the left but oh well
But you know that he will go to left but you don't know when he will make the move.
I’m a CR7 fan but after watching this video I have to admit that R9 is better at stepovers
y así se le jodían las rodillas...
terrible song choice for an amazing video
What's the song? It's catchy
He is good but when it comes to stepover Cristiano owns the skill.
thar lic ulcchrunz n u mtuforucul "puzshn" uv thu bul tht wun nvr rele hz untl tha sturt throwng thez urnd.
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Wht was he? Using stepover in 1 v 3 situation...hard to use against 3 defenders...true king of stepovers
Whats the name of the song
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I still say and always will that If I could pick a team of players in their peak to play in a one off game, ronaldo 9 will be my first choice
You'd be making the correct one :) I still love Cristiano's stepovers though too. People say they're not effective but there's plenty of videos with him going past defenders with them. Plus Cristiano's are super fast. But R9's are probably still better...
Cristiano better
His one season at Barcelona is as great a peak as anyone ever
@@idontcarethatyoudonthaveam1262 no, better career but not better player.
...nei tuoi sogni
@@idontcarethatyoudonthaveam1262
90% of the time he went left after the stepover, yet defenders couldn't anticipate that. What is incredible is Ronaldo was right footed, but his left was almost as good, otherwise he wouldn't be as effective after going left post steopver.
That’s a great opening , legends Thuram and Desailly couldn’t see the ball I think that’s worth a ballon d’or when your peers can talk like that about you
Not just any old defenders either some of the greatest to have played the game
The one who does it faster = CR7
The one who does it better = R9
*Simple*
R9
@@anab0lic Ok, r9 is simply spectacular, but, Cristiano score a lot of goals using stepovers, he deserves respect too
Well he rarely did stepovers recently. He never got past anyone ever again 😂
@@anab0lic pessi fan
Please don't compare the two,
They said "He goes left".. but in front of him defenders like 😵💫 they could'nt stop him.. all his videos play in slow motion to see what he did.. "phenomenon"..💪
It's because of the pace
0:54 - the best stepovers I've ever witnessed...
WYM? Lmfao he only did 2 stepovers there smh XD
@@jeannieschaldach2034 tf it's not about show boating it's to get pass players you can go and watch cr7 to see a bunch of them which turns out to go no where
The ones on 0:35 are slightly better, he has his body positioned over the ball which gives more power as opposed to when you have to 'kick out' a bit , this way he powers it with more speed. Like a flash.
@@ralphzoontjens yeah fr
@@ralphzoontjens and he does a little body faint with it
Him, Robinho, Ronaldinho and Cr7 are the ones that come to my mind
Don’t forget quaresma
Not to be disrespectful to the man but CR7 stepovers didint get him anywhere atleast most of the times. They just for time wasting and showboating
Denilson
@@DBDYAKU 💯💯💯
So any one whose name sounds like Ronaldo?
..Step over'ların arkasından gelen ölümcül şutlar.
O melhor jogador de todos os tempos !!!
Que belo vídeo, o ultimo lance é o gol mais bonito do fenômeno !!!
R9 you are phenominal of football forever
This man had it all.power.skill.goal scorer.the ultimate footballer.injurys robbed him of being top three ever.
I have seen C.Ronaldo do 20 stepovers and the defender is still in front of him. Real Ronaldo does 1 stepover then it is byebye defender. C.Ronaldo has no clue when it comes to efficiency!
When he does stepovers there is deception in that. That’s smooth move it is .
Robinho, CR7,dinho have stepovers but no deception.
Dinho stepover is a bit effective compared to robinho and cristiano
He invented a stepover deriative where when he was standing with the ball he slowly push the ball using the inside of his feet then stepover it and lean towards left, Mbappé does it too nowadays
Hossam can you upload ronaldo(luis figo allstars) vs mcdonald's 02/07/2005 charity match, ah i was forgetting: great video, i hope the stupid copyright will not give you anymore bother :)
this is the only match where R9 and CR7 faced each other on the field, is that right? can't find this match anywhere
@@JugglernautNr9 yes is right 👍
*GOD of stepovers
Even more impressive than feints and sleepovers was Ronaldo's ball control at very high speed. No wonder Ronaldo was great, but I think Adriano could have been better; as Zanetti once said, he was a mixture of both Ronaldo and Ibrahimovic, with a much more powerful shot and physique!
I cant see Adriano ever having a season like R9's barcelona though......
@@TekkenBones Never... R9 the Goat!
The defenders know that it's left side Ronaldo chooses when he does step over but they don't know if he is going to do a step over or just turn to right. So the direction actually don't matter.
His opponents look like kindergarteners when he performs these skills
Lol haha that’s one way of putting it
Always went to his left accept twice
Majority of times defenders knew that he would go left, but the problem is they didn't know when he would go...
Can you make a Ronaldo Cruzerio and Ronaldo PSV as well??
Why people disslike this video i love him
"Ronaldo, how does he do that? Genius. Absolute genius."
People will always have they’re goats 🐐 I believe no one is the greatest of all time it’s a personal opinion debate, the player that you grew up watching that makes you feel like a kid in the park when you watch them play and for me r9 will always be my 🐐
Interestingly Ronaldo only really started doing stepovers when he was at Inter. He then perfected the multiple stepovers when he played for Madrid. You hardly ever see him doing stepovers before his time at Inter.
1:57 You're talking complete bollocks
@@CCCoNeTiMe Wow, you found one example of him performing one stepover at Barcelona. I never said that he didn't do any before, but he really only started doing them regularly with Inter and later. I know almost all of his matches, so don't tell me stories.
You are right. I think he invented to face THE BEST DEFENDERS of Italy. He needed to be more effective rather than beautiful to play against Maldini, Nesta, Cannavaro and so on....
Aung Ye Tun exactly the same with Maradona at Napoli he said he had to do everything faster because the defenders were simply too good and would always be there and they most of the time would actually foul him.
He started to do more stepovers at Madrid because he lost his speed. So instead of bulldozing the defenders like in his early days, he relied more on wrong footing the defenders.
Robinho is the King or step overs
Will go left they said
You know what gonna be but still cant handle thats feel true horror
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how has this only 70k views? it should have 70million
3:07 one of my favorite clips of his. Shame it wasn't a goal.
I learned stepovers because of R9
He mostly goes left because defenders would prefer to push him to dummy the ball to the left side where his left foot is weaker than his right foot. So defenders were ready to commit to intercept a right sided Puah from a stepover. However this is not a problem for Ronaldo who could score from the angle from a right side or drive in with the left side.
In most cases Ronaldo was more than happy to drive left further to provide and assist into the penalty box for an incoming forward or attacking midfielder to connect with his pass or cross
And Figo was doing that too on the right
Not really. He goes left because he's right footed. When you dribble with your right it's much more natural to do the first step over with your right and then go left or straight with your left foot. To go right you need to do a second step over with your left, which he sometimes did, but he seemed to like more the single step over. Check also Ronaldinho's step over, it's the same thing just not as smooth as this magician (but still excellent, both were explosive with their first step which is key for this to work well)
CR7 would do 10 stepovers against a player and still be in the same position and look like a giraffe with fast feet. I can guarantee you about 99% of his goals had no stepovers. R9 would do 1 stepover get past 1 defender, do another stepover get past another defender, do 3 stepovers to get past 1 defender and a keeper. What I'm saying r9 did stepover for a purpose, cr7 looked stupid imo and uneccasarry and irratic.
Thats.the site off a delusional man who has never seen Ronaldo play watch the video on legusus channel u will be caught looking goofy it's called Ronaldo's step over are better than r9's
Yes.. Agreed, CR7 stepover is useless.
@@andreasmulyadidamanik7448 hater of century
@@claudecarlyle9284 first off ur just down right bluffing right now and if u do step overs on the wing the job is to push the ball forward so u can create space for a cross or a inverted run, for a cut back, Ronaldo was only intercepted once in a while stop lying.
@@idontcarethatyoudonthaveam1262 Ronaldo lost the ball relatively often, that's what I mean by intercepted. Stepovers are generally inefficient - especially with CR's habit of overextending the knee and taking too long to beat one man (a clever defender won't mind being humiliated if he's bought enough time for his teammates to reset the block, pick up Ronaldo's teammates, close space for Ronaldo himself to run into after the 1-on-1, etc.).
Even though the 1999 Beckham/2006 CR7 winger of crosses into the box (Ronaldo was already moving away from that by 07/08) has been replaced by inverted wide-forwards (which Robben/CR helped pioneer), underlapping/overlapping and long-passing fullbacks and free-roaming false 9s, Ronaldo always had a habit of running the down the wing without mapping the pitch.
The best dribblers can drive towards Zone 14 (central) - this is much harder than wide because outnumbered, less space and time, BUT the advantage is that a successful dribble or throughball in this Zone increases the likelihood of a goal far more than any other area of the pitch, so Messi (or Hazard, Baggio, Gascoigne, Zola) emphasises dribbling and playmaking here partly because he's lost the pace to go wide, but regardless of speed his close-control and vision are devastating in close-quarters despite it being more technically demanding and riskier (and he can pick out runs of wide players - Alba, DiM). The advantage out on the wings is that it is easier to complete a dribble because it's less crowded and opponents can be isolated into duals and races - the disadvantage is that, to quote Cruyff, the best defender in the world is the white line around the pitch, so you're effectively cutting off half your body viz. passing options.
Of course, wingers stretch the pitch and the opposition during 3-on-3s, counters, overloads, 50/50 transitions, etc. - which is why you don't want a row of Messis; you still need the fullbacks and wingers to provide that wide outlet. But Ronaldo went wide even when he could cross early or pass to the overlapping fullback, or drive/pass centrally into the final third, hence Rooney's regular frustration, and even out-wide he often took too long to release the cross, to beat his man, ran towards the cornerflag, hence RVN's frustration.
When he had vertical space during stretched transitions, he was capable of driving centrally (06 Fulham, Villa, Villarreal 09) but his dribbling close-control and playmaking were never elite. To be fair, his game could have been refined assuming he was capable of humility and playmaking, but I'm skeptical of both. He always struggled with mapping the pitch.
Ronaldo is right footed, and he always cuts in to the right. The step over was his 2nd option. As a defender you had to either defend him cutting in or stepping over and because he was too fast, you’d fail either ways. Mission impossible.
You can see that CR7, Zlatan, Neymar or even Mbappé learned from him
This video makes Robinho and Denilson look like circus clown...... You don’t need 20 stepovers to pass a defender! Occasionally CR7 too.
0:35 you watch a couple of seeconds of this and you might think that he is left-footed but he isnt!
Jacquet was right. Only 5 times Ronaldo took left side of the defender, among maybe 100-200 stopover in the video.
Easy to read tbh. He turns into his left 99% of the time.
😂 yet no one was able to guard him
Yeah easy to read you say yet the defenders still couldn’t stop him
@@maguirethegoat213 it was his explosiveness out of the step over that made him hard to tackle
Kids be like Ronaldo does best step over but we all know who does it the best fast and effective
You don't see these types of skills anymore in football
He almost always went to the left. The defenders knew it, but they couldn't do anything about it.
It's so weird 🤔
When they can defend the left side perfectly, he went to the right.
It’s cause he reads what they’re about to do
In Spanish is called BICICLE……
R9 is not footballer. football is ronaldo