5 greatest El Clasico moments in recent history

2. Ronaldinho lights up Bernabeu, gets standing ovation

Ronaldinho celebrates his goal against Real Madrid.

The Real Madrid-Barcelona rivalry is pretty much as ugly as they get, and there surely is no love lost between the two biggest teams in Spain. Therefore, when home fans during a Clasico can put aside their hatred for their opponents and afford a standing ovation for a player of the other team, you know that they have witnessed something special.

At the peak of his powers, Ronaldinho was easily the world’s best player, and shows his dazzling array of skills and tricks in a La Liga encounter against Real Madrid in 2005, scoring a brace on the road at the Bernabeu as Barcelona beat their rivals 3-0.

Skipping past players with consummate ease, Ronaldinho scored two goals of great beauty, the second one prompting a standing applause from the admiring Bernabeu crowd, while the home team were handed a cacophony of jeers on their way out of the stadium.