He is the only player called "Alien"! His knees are filled with half a football history!

Alien Ronaldo: The Road to Nirvana from Genius to Legend

Before the name Ronaldo was redefined by another man, it belonged to only one alien. In Inter Milan back then, having him was equivalent to turning on the game plug-in in the real world. The defensive player in front of him has a function of about the speed bump on the sidewalk, but it only exists symbolically. He doesn't need complicated tactics, because he himself is a tactic, a simple pendulum-like superb, and an unreasonable acceleration, the ball is already lying in the net. Everything seemed so easy, as if a full-level boss was airborne the novice village and carried out a dimensional reduction strike.

But all the scripts of heroic epics are indispensable, and this hardship of aliens is engraved on his knees with a scalpel. This story is not only about how he flew over the galaxy and conquered the court, but also about how he fell from the clouds, smashed it, and then pieced together his unyielding self in a piece of ruins.

98 to 99 seasons, the game plug-in began to appear delayed, and the top hardware that aliens are proud of, his knees frequently alert for system errors. He spent even more time in the physical therapy room than the training ground. His explosive kicking style that did not belong to the earth was crazily overdrawing the body of this mortal. The man who could distort time and space on the court was now ruthlessly distorted by his own body limits. To make matters worse, life outside the field has also added more instability to the system. The neon and party in Milan City became his second arena, but the test here has nothing to do with football. His condition was visible to the naked eye, and the former goal machine began to become stumbling. The first massive system crash came against Lecce — a ruptured patellar tendon, a serious injury that could ruin a career. The alien signal was interrupted for a full five months.

Five months later, on April 12, 2000, the system restarted. In the Italian Cup final, he came on as a substitute, and the world's eyes were focused on these fragile knees. In just six minutes, he was still the omnipotent Ronaldo. His rhythm of dribbling and extraordinary fake moves all declared the return of the king.

Then, the most heartbreaking scene in football history happened. There was no confrontation, no collision, and at the moment when he made his signature bicycle-tracking move, his knees went on a complete strike. The patellar tendon was completely torn, and he collapsed like a building with a foundation removed. His roar put the entire court in silence. The opponent and teammates all surrounded him, and the expression on his face was not sympathy, but horror. The physiotherapist later recalled that his knees were swollen like a football, which was the most terrifying sports trauma he had ever seen. This time it was not a minor failure, it was the complete scrapping of core components.

In the next 525 days, Ronaldo evaporated from the football world. It was a long night with pain and inner demons, but fans around the world did not forget him. The banners that read **"We'll wait for you to come back" were the stars in his darkness.

When he returned to Inter Milan again, he had changed. The former violent aesthetic has become a pragmatism of caution. The new coach Cooper looked at him with suspicion in his eyes, and he trusted more of the healthy players. The alien was pressed on the bench and the earth seemed to have no place to him.

At this moment, the head coach of the Brazilian national team made a shocking bet, and he wrote a Ronaldo, whose state was a mystery, into the 2002 World Cup roster. The media was in an instant, and all the reports were slandering his knees. To divert media endless speculation about his injury, Ronaldo did something that shocked the world before the World Cup - he shaved a strange hairstyle that would later be called **"Afu Head"**. This magical stroke instantly shifted the focus of all media from his knee to the top of his head. As it turns out, this wave of operations is master level. The World Cup began, and the alien, who was believed to have fallen, announced his return to the world with his goal. In the group stage, he scored four goals and had a huge confidence; in the knockout stage, he sent Belgium away with the winning goal; in the quarter-finals, although he did not score, Brazil still eliminated England; in the semi-finals, he was another key goal, ending Turkey's journey to a dark horse. In the finals, opposite him was the German goalkeeper Kahn, who performed bravely in that World Cup. But in front of this reborn phoenix, even the strongest city wall will eventually collapse. He first forced Kahn to take off his hand and scored a goal; then he scored twice with a signature push. The final whistle sounded, and Brazil won the World Cup for the fifth time. The boy who had a bizarre collapsed four years ago before the final four years ago, dragged two scarred legs and scored eight goals four years later, and staged the greatest redemption in football history. He is not only the best scorer, but also the well-deserved king. After becoming a god in the World Cup, he joined Real Madrid and became a member of the Galaxy Battleship. Here, around top midfielders such as Zidane, Figo, and Beckham, Ronaldo's mission became pure - running, and then sending the ball into the goal. His playing style has become simpler, and the dribbling is still gorgeous, but it is more of a fatal efficiency of one blow.

In Real Madrid's first season, he scored a hat-trick against Manchester United in the Champions League, conquering Old Trafford, and even the opponent's fans stood up and applauded him. He suffered little injuries from the 2003-2004 season, playing one of his best seasons in his career, scoring 31 goals in 48 games and winning the La Liga Golden Boot. Unfortunately, after the peak, there is another familiar plot. The party and indulgence off the court looked up again, his weight began to lose control, and his condition also declined. Real Madrid Chairman Florentino even hired security personnel to take care of him, but he was smart and turned the security personnel into new members of the party.

When the head coach was replaced by the coach Capello, the overweight genius completely lost his position. In 2007, he transferred to AC Milan. Head coach Ancelotti looked at his burly figure and asked him what he wanted to do on the court, run or score a goal? Ronaldo replied: "If you want to run, put me on the bench, and if you want to score, put me on the court." Ancelotti chose to believe him, but he returned his trust with a second goal.

However, fate always seems to love to play the cruelest jokes with him. In February 2008, when he had just recovered, he suffered another serious injury, fractured his tibia and injured his knee again. This time, he couldn't stand up again. At the age of 31, he was forced to say goodbye to mainstream European arenas in advance. After retiring, he returned to Brazil to join Corinthian, where he spent the last time of his career.

Looking back at his entire career, he scored 362 goals in 55 games, including almost all honors including the World Cup and the Golden Ball Awards, but one Champions League trophy is missing. Ibrahimovic said that he was the one who asked me to stand in front of the TV to watch the game; Messi said that he was the best striker I have ever met.

He was knocked down again and again and endured unimaginable pain, but he never gave up and stood up again and again. This is the unique story belonging to aliens.