Discussing FIFA World Cup Icons on Ferdinand's YouTube channel it was impossible for Rio and Patrice Evra not to mention such a legend as Ronaldo (R9). They were asked about how hard was it to face Ronaldo.
Ferdinand: "Yeah he's he had one moment in the game he actually wasn't the best player on on the day in Japan against Brazil. It was Rivaldo who was the best player on. Ronaldo done a couple of things in the game that made me think. I was 23 and I've still got a lot to learn I thought I was the man and he humbled me really quick."
"He didn't score yeah, but he'd done a couple of movements where I was running around, like, where has he gone, like, this is a different stuff that I'm seeing. It showed me that there's still more levels I was here and thinking yes I'm the man and then all of a sudden there's a few more levels.
Evra: "I have a story about Ronaldo. When we play with Monaco against Real Madrid and everyone was asking me the shirt of Ronaldo or Zidane or whatever because they thought we were like going to be out whatever I remember in a corner kick I didn't have to mark Ronaldo."
"I had to mark, I think, Figo and I was doing it on purpose to be next to him to make sure the next day I can see a picture in the paper about me close to Ronaldo."
"And actually Didier Deschamps, he did a training session about Ronaldo with Gaël Givet and Sébastien Squillaci, he told them you know when he's doing all of that just focus on the ball, if you look at his legs you're dead."
"If you talk to Zidane to all the players they will say R9 is the best player of all time, what a player."
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