Indeed, you've no idea how much i miss those times. That was true Football where good player were truly good. When a player like Bale becomes one of the best around shows you how the overall quality of the sport is low nowadays.
There are still some good players around like Messi/Ronaldo to keep the flame alive but like Baggio said a few years ago, it's such a shame the Football world decided to embrace the English way of playing.
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You seem to have missed the
whole point, i was comparing individual brilliance, how good with the ball one was. Romário played
Futvôlei at the beaches of Rio, if you don't know what that is it's a game that involves nothing but skills and tricks. That's why most of the time a
Futsal player will be more skilled and have much more flair than a regular Footballer. Those are two Football-inspired sports Brazilians play to this day and one of the reasons they've always been so skilled.
Romário was an acrobat, a magician that would get past 3 defenders and dribble past the gk while having an open goal he wouldn't score but go back and dribble past the gk once or twice instead, just for the fun. That's how he was. He always went for the hard goals, the beautiful ones. Why score easy goals if you can do it in such brilliant ways.
You're trying to compare careers, not
individual talent. And really? Are you really gonna bring goals into this argument? Cause well, let's just say Ronaldo would have to score another 400.