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The Story of life Ronaldo (English)

  In 1997, Ronaldo had just finished one ofthe greatest individual seasons of all time at Barcelona. He was loved by a club and a city that livesfor football, and a promising team was built around him. He could have done pretty much what he likedthere, but instead he moved to In ter to do it all again. And, for a short while, he really did. Ronaldo arrived at Inter as the man to finallybring them a league title. They hadn't won aScudetto since 1989 and had only two in the previous 26 years, all while their Milaneseneighbours had been hoovering up the trophies. But Ronaldo was their great hope, theyoung man on whom they spent $27million – a world record fee, making him the only man other than Diego Maradona to have broken that record twice. To say Ronaldo's arrival was highly-anticipatedin Italy would be an understatement. Apathy had been growing and attendances shrinking in the years before he signed, but that summerInter sold 51,000 season tickets, as opposed to the 16,000 th...