Topics: Ronaldo Nazario, Football, Real Madrid
Brazil legend Ronaldo Nazario has named the worst player he played with during his career.
The former striker will forever be remembered as one of the best players of his generation, having played for the likes of Cruzeiro, PSV Eindhoven, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Real Madrid, AC Milan and Corinthians.
In total, R9 played 518 club matches in his career, scoring 352 goals. On the international stage, Ronaldo was capped 98 times by Brazil, scoring 62 goals.
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He also won the Ballon d'Or on two occasions, in 1997 and 2002.
During his career, Ronaldo played with some of the finest players from around the world, such as Ronaldinho, Zinedine Zidane, Roberto Carlos, David Beckham and Luis Figo.
Speaking recently, Ronaldo named the worst player he played with, which was Thomas Gravesen during the pair's time at Madrid.
He explained to Romario TV: "There was one at Real Madrid that was a joke. Gravesen was a really great guy, very good person. He recently won a $50 million poker tournament. But in football he was very bad."
Gravesen joined Los Blancos in January 2005 for a reported fee of £2.5 million, leaving Premier League side Everton.
At the time, the Dane was signed to fill a hole in Madrid's defensive midfield area and ended up scoring in one of his first matches for the club, during a 4-0 win over Espanyol.
Ronaldo also named Zidane as the best he's ever played with, he said: "Best player I’ve played with? At club level, Zidane. Zizou was very different, he had a lot of class, he was very technical, he made everything simple."
R9 also believes that he is one of the eight greatest players of all time.
Speaking to The Guardian in 2022, he stated: "I think there is a very, very special group.
"Where you have Diego [Maradona], [Lionel] Messi, [Johan] Cruyff, [Franz] Beckenbauer, Pele, [Marco] Van Basten, Ronaldinho.
I would include myself. Let the fans say, let them debate it in the bars. But you can't rank them, can't compare generations.
"People call me Original Ronaldo but there were others - and they weren't false. I'm not the only one and more will come along and be better than me, in everything."
