The Football Ramble HISTORY Specials: Ronaldo's performance during the 1998 final
Football Ramble
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🗓️ 22 May 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Drama, intrigue, Stephane Guivarc’h; the 1998 World Cup final had it all, with the mystery surrounding Ronaldo’s omission and subsequent reinstatement to the team the defining factor. He wasn’t himself and it would prove to be a worrying low point for the world’s best striker, but don’t worry, he wouldn’t stay down for too long…
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to the football ramble World Cup Specials and Association |
| 0:20.0 | with history. |
| 0:21.0 | We've got five of these World Cup specials. |
| 0:23.0 | We started way back in 1990 with Cameroon's incredible defeat of World Champions Argentina |
| 0:27.6 | and we'll be finishing with a look at that time, a 23 year old David Beckham was sent |
| 0:31.3 | off for that little kick out at Diego Simione in 1998. |
| 0:35.4 | These five World Cup specials are brought to you by history who in celebration of the |
| 0:39.0 | World Cup are broadcasting 24, 7 football documentaries for two weeks starting on the |
| 0:44.0 | 28th of May, Monday the 28th of May. |
| 0:46.9 | You can watch history on Sky, Virgin, Beaty or Talk Talk. |
| 0:51.5 | Gentlemen, this time we have the great Renale those performance during the 1998 World |
| 0:57.2 | Cup Final controversy. |
| 0:59.6 | A man fitting of that music of that epic music at the start. |
| 1:03.5 | If you could imagine Ronaldo, the original Ronaldo, pick up the ball inside his own |
| 1:08.8 | half and drive into all the goal. |
| 1:10.7 | If that music's playing in the background, I imagine that's the music that's playing in |
| 1:13.6 | his head. |
| 1:14.6 | Now that's how the music came about. |
| 1:15.6 | The sort of the earth's core and atmosphere just suddenly burst into that sound as he |
| 1:19.2 | charged through another port. |
| 1:20.8 | And that is what he did. |
| 1:22.0 | George A. Valdano, the sort of Ramadrid legend said of Ronaldo. |
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