The 5 Greatest strikers of all time

#3. Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima

Ronaldo

Ronaldo is one of the greatest strikers to have played the game. He set the Dutch League alight as a prodigious teenager with PSV Eindhoven and was called O Fenomeno or The Phenomenon.

Ronaldo joined Barcelona from PSV in 1996 and was with them for a season. He scored an astonishing 47 goals in 49 matches in the solitary season he played for Barca and won the Copa Del Rey and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup with them.

He then joined Inter Milan in 1997, but his career got hampered by a terrible injury while playing for the Italian giants. He joined Real Madrid in 2002 and played there till 2007. Ronaldo scored a very impressive 352 goals from 518 matches in his club career and also won the Ballon d’Or twice. He also won two La Liga titles and one UEFA Cup Winners Cup title in his career.

He also won two World Cups with the Brazilian national team and finished runner-up once. He scored 15 goals in three World Cups and was the top goal-scorer in World Cups till Miroslav Klose broke his record in 2014. Ronaldo also scored a brace in the final of the World Cup in 2002 to win it for his country. He also remains one of the very few players to have won the Golden Boot and the Golden Ball in World Cups. He also won two Copa America titles for Brazil. He scored 62 goals in 98 matches for the Brazilian national team.