"Manchester United" sniper Zlatan Ibrahimovic revealed that in his youth he was particularly fascinated by Ronaldo's game.
The Brazilian national team striker shone in the ranks of "Barcelona", Madrid's "Real" and Milan's "Inter", and Ibra wanted to compete just like him.
Indeed, the Swede can truly be satisfied with his career - before representing the "Red Devils", he played for giants such as Turin's "Juventus", "Inter", "Barcelona", "Milan" and "Paris Saint-Germain".
"I think Ronaldo was phenomenal", Ibra told the United Review. "He was such a player that whatever he did, it was wow."
"He could perform difficult tricks and it was magical. When he took the ball, it was as if he said 'now I will take care of everything'. We didn't have such a player before or today. He doesn't exist."
"As a young player, I watched him and said to myself, 'I want to be just like him'... I want to be a player who has a huge impact and is simply shining."
It is probably not a coincidence that the best game Ibra ever watched from another country was the 1998 World Cup final, where Ronaldo's Brazil lost to the French.
