johny wrote:here we have suffered a great ronaldo seasson.. He's so fat he doesn't like football and now he doesn't scores goals
I weight 75 kilos, 1.83 m of height. I am one of the worst (and enthusiastic) number 3 you are going to see playing. Our team was sixth between more than 200 teams on Bogotá's amateur championship last year. On the semifinals, we provoked over 20 offsides in just one game, because we could not run as fast as the other team, and we won that game. You may know I am 46 years old and I have older, fatter, and thinner team partners.
Handsome, playboyish and athletic Coulthard seems unable to defeat the short Räikkonen, the fat Montoya or the shortie and a little rounded Alonso, except on acid comments about their bodies. They do not make jokes about Coulthard's chin and cheeks...
So, let me go down memory lane, with the help of Eduardo Galeano...
Giresse was so small that, on TV, he always seem to be far away.
Legendary Puskas was short and fat, like the great Uwe Seeler.
They have a fragile body, Cruyff the genius and Gianni Rivera the able italian.
Pelé and the stolid argentinian defense Néstor Rossi have flat feet.
Rivelino had the worst Cooper test of the team.
Sócrates have the body of a bird, small feet and thin long legs.
Carlos Valderrama has twisted knees and this twist seems to help him to hide the ball.
Garrincha had also thin, arched legs and was an alcoholic. There are three photos on the entrance to Maracaná, I have been there: Pelé's team, Sócrates's team and a photo of Garrincha
alone. No need for further comments, if you know brazilians.
Uruguayan "Cococho" Alvarez had the same legs of Valderrama and he was one of the few backs that could control Pelé without any fouls.
Romario and Maradona, on the short and fat side, were the stars in 94.
Uruguayans Rubén Sosa and Carlos Aguilera were short and they were stars in Italy.
Thanks to their minuscule size, brazilian Leônidas, english Kevin Keegan, irish George Best and danish Allan Simmonsen, nicknamed "The Flea" were able to slip through defenses.
Principessa, you complain of France: remember that Michel Platini has not the body of an Adonis. In 1972, Metz physician informed the team that he had a "cardiac insufficiency and weak respiratory capacity", rigid ankles and tendency to get fat, because he loved pasta... Ten years later, Saint Etienne with Platini (and the, by then, fat colombian Ernesto Díaz), defeated Metz 9-2. Under Platini's direction, the french team showed the world an armonic football, built and enjoyed step by step, where every play "grown". Totally against the center to the area, blind push to the body and "God have mercy of our souls" approach some "athletic teams" seem to "enjoy" nowadays, like (Commonwealth members, forgive me) Australia... At the '82 semifinals, France with Platini, was defeated by Germany with an
injured Rumenigge. Nor Platini, nor Rumenigge had the joy of a world championship final victory, but surely they enjoyed many championship games.
I only wish Brazil vs Argentina for the final... with the fat Ronaldo, the ugly Ronaldinho, the ugly and a little rounded Carlos Tévez and the weak, inspired players we, latins, send you, if there is any justice in this world.
In football, ability is more important than athletic conditions, and in many cases, ability is the art of converting limitations into virtues. Ask Briatore if you do not believe me.
! I don't really understand why Ronaldo can start the game after that horrible first match for Brazil. Okay he gives the assist to Adriano, but for the rest he has done nothing. Ronaldo is just to fat for the moment and he doesn't run, he just walks around on the football court like he's walking in his garden.
) i also play football as an amateur (i was federated but when i began the uni i left it) and i've won many small trophies. i've to agree 50% with you, size isn't everything in football but the main problem is when you mix it with a poor phisical condition i.e. ronaldo if you're an attacker player you need to be all the match running and keeping the defense behind you (i play as a defender), ronaldo has lots of class and good football but he's had many chances were it looked so bad.
But at least I don't have to regret I didn't have time to watch the match. And it is not F1 so I don't mind that much.