The real Ronaldo (R9) poularly known as fenômeno which means phenomenal and personally I think he his the best striker I have heard of and watched when it comes to football, though I wasn't opportuned to watch him during his prime because I was a kid then and probably don't have idea who he was.
Concerning the article what happened to Ronaldo in 1998 world cup final remains one of the biggest and weirdest football mystery, at 18 years of age R9 was on top of the football world, he moves to Europe he scores 54 goals in 57 matches for psv Eindhoven in Netherlands and then move to Barcelona and pulling out an outrageous stats 47 goals in 49 games and after one season he moved to inter Milan in Italy for a world record transfer winning the uefa (Union of European Football Associations) cup and a Balon d'or.
He was literally matching a goal match played, having all these stats alone in club football should probably make other country scared because the world cup was approaching and that was what absolutely happened.... On the way to final Ronaldo Fenômeno scored 4 goals and he assisted 3 times as they cruise to the final but it was against the host nation which was France.
The actual day for final has arrived, the whole world was watching because football has been the biggest sport since its arrival, and finally the team lineups comes out, people discovered Ronaldo was not in the lineup and he was on the bench and obviously people were absolutely furious because they all came to watch the best football player at the moment and at the same time support their country..... Half an hour later they released a new team line up and that was when people discovered something was wrong because at first they all thought Brazil was playing mind game but you can't be playing mind games with your best player.
When the new line up was released this time, Ronaldo was in the starting line up and unbelievable he went on to have one of the worst performances of his whole career, the two goals zinedine zidane scored was caused by Ronaldo fenômeno both from corner kick and if I had watched the match obviously I would be supporting Brazil because of him and I would have definitely been sad.
News came after the match that earlier that day, Ronaldo was having lunch with his country's teammates which was a normal routine and when he got up to have a nap before the world cup match he actually had a convulsion, fell to the floor and was unconscious and he didn't remember 4 minutes of his life before they woke him up in his hotel room and what happened next nobody knows.
Obviously there were a lot of conspiracies since then and I would share some of it in the next article, hope you enjoyed reading this first part?
These are the three conspiracies;
- R9 might possibly be poisoned
After several days which the matched had been played, a Brazilian pundit which is obviously a Brazilian fan in the world cup came out publicly and said that the team doctor had injected Ronaldo's knee due to an injury with something that that made him have the fitness problem and eventually put him out in the world cup finals and if this is true why did he play?.... That's what lead to the second conspiracy.
- The Nike Sponsorship Deal
By then it was said that Nike had $100 million deal with the Brazilian National team, Edmundo which was the striker that suppose to start instead of Ronaldo came out and pronounced that Nike officials were always in the changing room and they had way more power than they should have.... So this theory explained that Nike forced Ronaldo fenômeno to play in the final and knowing he was very ill, but they chose contract over a football player health.
- The FIFA Conspiracy
This is the biggest conspiracy and it sounds hard to believe but based on what happened months before the world cup when the Brazilian FIFA president steps down and he was replaced by Sepp Blatter and he was the most corrupt president and I would regard him as the president that's not legitimate based on what happened before he was sacked.
Rumours were in France that they needed to win the world cup because we all know France as the national team that was a symbol of hope and racial diversity and you can see the numbers of blacks in their club, though it was a white country but in the national team the blacks were dominant and they've never won the world cup before and winning it would be a great thing to happen to them.
There were also rumours that the Brazilian national team will be paid over $23 million to lose the world cup finals and also FIFA will ensure they had an easy path in the 2002 world cup, since world cup is hosted after every 4 years and they would also host one in the next decades,.... When I discovered this theory, it sounds ridiculous though...
4 years down the lane, they cruise through the group stage where Turkey, Costa Rica and china were their opponents and obviously they were not matched with Brazil when it comes to football and again they meet Turkey again in the semi final and they went on to win the world cup and Ronaldo won the golden boot by scoring the most goals in the world cup and eventually Ronaldo Fenômeno won the balon d'or which is voted by the french media..... That means something is obviously going on right?
Fast forward to 2007, Brazil would host world cup in 2014 even when most people in the country do not support that notion but it went on and it happened but this time around the lost to the Germans machine by 7 goals to 1 and I actually watched this live while I was at home on tv.
Though all these are just conspiracy theory and till this day no one will ever know what happened to Ronaldo in the world cup final 1998.
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