Former English soccer player Andy Cole spoke on the 'Beatiful Game' podcast of the impression he had of facing Ronaldo Nazario in a Champions League match between Inter Milan and Manchester United, played at San Siro in 1999.
“I remember when we played against Inter Milan we were in the tunnel to jump onto the field and I saw Ronaldo. I'm not going to lie, I almost piss on myself. He was a player who had been following for years. We are talking about a striker, a true creator of the game. At that moment I realized it was crazy, it was surreal, it was in the same field as all these otherworldly stars, “he said.
And he added that “when I talk about Ronaldo with my children, they look at me as if I had three heads. If he hadn't had all those injuries, he would have won one Ballon d'Or after another. It was a real crack. Of course, we can say that Cristiano Ronaldo is on the same level as Ronaldo ”.