i remember in probably 1999 giovanni was playing for barcelona and he was not selected for brazilian team for a tournament , his barca coach van gaal openly stated that this was because he had no contract with nike .

That R9 stat at 21 years old is mind boggling

I see people saying the referees helped Argentina win the World Cup 2022 but how was the referees helping them by calling 3 of their goals off side against Saudi Arabia, Gave The Netherlands 10 mins to tie up with them and gave France 2 penalties against them while ignoring France handballs 🤦🏾‍♂️

"So Nike do you want to rig the world cup?" Nike: Just Do It

The big mistake is Romario absence from the squad. He gonna take a lot of pressure from Ronaldo to him.

That France '98 final was the weirdest one I've seen.

Lucas never disappoints us with his content. What a guy!

Zidane and Ronaldo were monsters

10:16 - I could swear he was gonna say "One of the first internet trolls, Pelé" lolllll

That Ronaldo boots image is THE hardest footballing image of all time

1997-98 was rigged too during the second match between Inter and Juve. Ronaldo got fouled when the defender went to shove him rather than the ball in the penalty box, but no penalty given.

Can’t wait to get a video like this of the World Cup 22

love the vids keep making em

great work, as always

Wow! Never heard any of this stuff before. Good job

2:20 he scored 4 in that edition. Scored 8 in 2002 and 3 in 2006. Total should tally up to 15.

Can you make a video on yugoslavian football? crvena dzvezda winning the champions leauge and Darko pancev being the golden boot winner in Europe from Macedonia, along with other lesser known amazing players from.that time like prosinecki

Just subbed I've watched a couple of your videos, can you do a John Charles or Adriano

Thank you for making this video. I remember this was my first WC and I got to love football just a year or two before being 8 years old. That final made no sense even back then, Brazil looked nothing like it was the whole tournament before. Later I watched it many times and it's obvious they threw the match. I believe it was the mix of everything you've mentioned, bribery, sponsors, throwing, fatigued and stressed out players. France was a very good team but not even close to that Brazil. Ronaldo should've been the official GoaT, damn that riggery and curse that horrible injury. R9 is still a legend, but looking back at that 1998 always feels painful and unfair.

Lucas, this is off topic but you should make a documentary about one of the greatest strikers ever - Fernando Gomes, o "bi-bota", símbolo do FC Porto.

That conclusion stuff sounds like a severe anxiety attack from pure stress

Do one specifically on Ronaldo Nazario

Playing that final after a seizure must have contributed to his inevitable injury plagued career

That 98 World Cup I vividly remember like yesterday. It was thr first World Cup I ever watched since I was too young to even know what football was for the 94 World Cup. But that 98 World Cup final was so off it did not feel right. It felt like decision was already made for 🇫🇷 to win before the game started. 🇧🇷 was playing so bad, I've never seen the golden generation 🇧🇷 play that bad. Ronaldo in that match was pretty much non-existent even Rivaldo & all the other main guys. Something was really wrong with that 98 World Cup final that till this day does not sit well with me, just like with the 06 World Cup final & some of the 22 World Cup matches. I'm not going to deny Zidane's talent because even for me he's one of the best of that generation, but he was definitely not on Ronaldo (R9), Ronaldinho (R10/R11) & Rivaldo (R10) in their prime, especially the first two in their prime.

4:27 Brazilian Doctors when R9 foams at the mouth, passes out, and then wakes up scot free:

Late 90's and early 2000's Nike ads were FIRE!

I do remember this incident... It all seemed so very strange at that time.

France wasn't weak, not better than Brasil, but really good, there was Zidane, Thuram, Henry, Vieira, didn't help that their best match was the final one, but Ronaldo's convulsion affected his whole team, except Edmundo, it was enough to give france the edge.

Pls can you make a video on Victor Osimhen....he is so good right now he's killing it in Napoli

The one constant in sports is how evil the owners and major corporate leaders will act. They took the peoples games and have taken the focus away from local athletic access of all type.

Can u make a video Of club UNAM (Pumas Liga MX) they had a godly run in the early 2000s and won the league in 04-05 and 05-06 During this run they had Argentine Cracks Marioni and Leandro and Home Grown talent like Francisco "Kikin" Fonseca. Also Dani Alves currently plays for them

Back then, Brazil and Ronaldo were the face of Nike. In 1998, Ronaldo wasn't 100% ready to play the final due health issues but Nike forced the Brazilian FA to play him regardless and we all know what happened. Rigged is a bit strong, more like forced Brazil to make money.

It wasn't rigged and no one tried to kill Ronaldo, the first theory you mention about Xylocaine sounds the most logical and explains everything quite clearly in terms of Ronaldo's weak knees. And are we seriously going to dismiss it just because his doctor who doesn't even know what a convulsion is said no one was taking any injection, obviously they are going to try to hide this information from public for as long as possible. As for the match itself, yes Nike forced Ronaldo to play because of the huge money deal, but that's not rigging the match, they didn't care who won the final, they just wanted to make sure their investment is represented and Brazil played poorly because they were shook up by Ronaldo's near death experience and couldn't focus on the match, so obviously easy match for France. Going into fancy and complex theories is fun and all, but in reality things are never so complicated, all the corrupt and shady shit that happens is always done in the simplest way possible, this ain't the movies where the villain plans some crazy sequence of events that would require all the start to align to happen. Also Brazil would never throw a final just to get a easy group stage in the next World Cup, that makes zero logic.

Back in 1993 Jairzinho proposed to Kalamata F.C. [a greek football cllub] to take the 17yeard old Ronaldo, about a year before he came to Europe! But Kalamata's President hesitated and then he went to PSV. It was already too late!

A lot of theories. Only one thing is true, every World Cup, Fifa takes a bribe lol. Well, at least they are consistently following tradition.

I would not be paying any attention to any future world cups. The world cup from the very beginning, even with the nomination country, was corrupt. What starts in corruption will end with it also. Not just football but sports has to much money in it, it is impossible for greed to not take effect.

Nao creio que veio o famoso meme do "se eles soubessem o que aconteceu, ficariam enojados" hsuaehwauea

still waiting for your review on ronaldo(R9).

Just like France argentina recently, they couldn't let messi leave without a WC.

Happy New year

Where can I get the cbs ronaldo interview????????

very interesting synopsis.

11:05 cell phone in France 1998?!?? You must be kidding me. The network was very bad anyway..

Very fine narration, i feel confused really

Can you do either Manuel Neuer or Kai Havertz next?

I think what happened is that Ronaldo was simply injured by the time leading up to the final. Then there was a brash attempt to keep him on by injecting him but it resulted in the convulsions. All because he simply HAD to play for the fans and yes for Nike too. By the time the final started Ronaldo was just a mess and the whole teams morale was just destroyed. I think a big flaw that showed up was not having Romario. Edmundo was too much of a drop off but Romario was elite as well and would’ve been able to play by the time of the knock out stages from injury. Romario would’ve been the perfect cushion for Ronaldo who simply suffered too much physically and he even payed for it more even after that World Cup.

Messi and Argentina don’t have a contract with Nike but people still like to say they rigged the world cup

Can you do a video about Juninho?

"Se eles soubessem, ficariam enojados..." Parei o vídeo aí kkkkkkkkkkkkkk

Just like Quatar and FIFA giving messi the world cup.

The last goal France scored was passed onto mbappe with his French teammates hand following the corner. But no one saw it until now that of course people can re-watch it and has gone viral. If anyone was rigged it's argentina and messi from a winning goal and a golden boot. U Muppets

Thank you waiting for Fifa world cup 2022 because it was more crazy than this from my perspective.

Can you make a video about teofilo cubillas please

Are there books written about this case?

“Hours went by before Ronaldo was rushed to the hospital…” WTAF??!

This was not the first or last corrupted World Cup. Argentina was gifted the Qatar World Cup for the same reason that France was gifted the 1998 Cup, the romanticism of those teams winning, the Qatar Cup being a chance for a sensational climax for Messi's career, and a big boost for Qatar.

"We may have lost the world cup but we didn't lose our lives" - Ronaldo After 98 I don't know why I once had a theory like they tried to get R9 not to play. R9 played and didn't score or didn't try to score. The seizure thing was the official story and people were also threatened. Then Brazil given easier road to final in 2002.

guys from brazil told us nike basically told brazil which players would get a start.

may GOD BLESS YOU

People say it all excuses, but i remember just before the match there was some strange shit going on, reported around the Brazil team

Greed for money ruins everything 😭😭

Blatter wanted that cup and the 2000 euro for France at all costs. Nike did make him play even though he was ill.

the same thing happened to Kobe

I also had the opportunity to witness this unthinkable and its utterly weird. Something was outrageously wrong. France was gifted the cup. They didn't win it. The Brasilians on the pitch were lost somewhere as if they had just landed on a different planet and they had no idea where they were and what for. Yes, its was rigged for sure.

Fun fact - everyone gets one seizure, two seizures and we start wondering if somethings wrong

The Only true thing about this was Nike's demands

exposé of World Cup 2022... if they dont sue you 🤫. great content as always. thank you

Clickbait title. the only thing that could be true is nike sponsorship knowing where it lead to. that doesnt mean they rigged it, it means they just made Ronaldo to play regardless of his health. Losing the world cup final would make them lose money even, which I bet it's what happened since everyone wanted Zidane's brand new adidas boots when he was in Juventus. Also Giovanni not featuring in the squad in 1999 even if he was before bcs he didnt have a contract with nike.

I have been telling people all along from the jump that all the WC are Rigged, DDOF you did your homework on this one, cause I saw that final and I know that R9 was himself, but in 02 Brazil wasn't having that again.

Edmundo was quite a character and a fantastic player. You should make a video about "O Animal"

There's a high probability that R9 was poisoned. Something similar happened to the peruvian player Paolo Guerrero during the world cup 2018 qualification. Where he was suspended for playing further matches during the qualification, becuase they had found drug substance in his blood. During training he and his team stayed at a hotel in Europe where he recieved tea from the hotel staff that contained coke. He was the key player for Peru.

France never won that final. But we let them think they did. Zidane never had anything on Ronaldo. But we let him think he did.

More content pls😫💚💚💚💚

thank yu

His pressure might've triggered a PNES

But messi is adidas. If your theory is true, is more likely that WC is planned for mbappe to win it, thats why he got 2 penalties in the final. But nike didn't take into account super performance of di Maria and Emi Martinez so their plan didn't work.

They kept on using brazil logo with 5 stars. During that time Brazil only have 4 stars.

And france was back to fixing world cup in 2018. Oh and not even gonna mention that 2022 travesty...

Makes me wonder about Edmundo now... If he was targeted after this

Regarding favours for the 2002 world cup, Rivaldo, after the 2002 QF with England said "we have already played the final" which with hindsight makes me wonder if England was one of the only teams that wasn't either paid off, in a group of death, or just not that good.

back then, internet isnt widely used, they can control the media

he had a panic attack

Perhaps, this explains why the player Leonardo declared the following sentence: "If people knew what happened in the World Cup, they would be disgusted". All Brazilians were shocked and saddened for having missed the soccer World Cup in France. Should not. What is exposed below is the first-hand news that is being investigated by radio stations and newspapers from all over Brazil and some foreigners, more specifically Wall Street Journal of Americas and Gazzeta delo Sport and should be published in the media soon, as soon as the news evidence is gathered and confirms the facts. Proven fact: Brazil SOLD the world cup to FIFA. The Brazilian starting players were advised, at 13:00 on July 12 (day of the final game), in a meeting involving Mr. Ricardo Teixeira (on the only time the president of the CBF attended a national team briefing), coach Mário Zagallo, Mr. Américo Faria, selection supervisor, and Mr. Ronald Rhovald, representative of sponsor Nike. Reserve players remained in isolation, in their rooms or in the hotel lobby. At first very upset, the players refused to exchange the five-time world championship for hosting the World Cup. Acceptance came through full payment of prizes, US$70,000.00 for each player, plus a bonus of US$400,000.00 for all players and committee members, for a total of US$23,000,000.00 twenty-three million dollars) through the company Nike. In addition, players who accept the contract with the company Nike in the next 4 years will have the same prize bases as the company's elite players, such as Ronaldo himself, Raul, from Spain, Batistuta, from Argentina and Roberto Carlos, as well. from Brazil. Even so, Ronaldo refused to play, which forced coach Zagallo to choose Edmundo, saying that Ronaldo was having problems with his left knee (in the first piece of news published at 1:30 pm at the press center) and, shortly afterwards, at 14:15, changing the prognosis for stomach problems). His situation was only resolved after the Nike representative threatened to withdraw his lifetime sponsorship of the player, valued at more than $90,000,000.00 (ninety million dollars) throughout his career. Thus, it was agreed that Brazil would be defeated during the 'Golden Goal' (overtime with sudden death), but the apathy that befell the starting players meant that France, which absolutely did not participate in this negotiation, scored, in two simple failures of the Brazilian team, the first goals. Mr. Sepp Blatter, the new president of FIFA, a French-Swiss citizen, applauded the collaboration of the Brazilian team, since the world championship brought balance to France at a time of the highest unemployment rates ever recorded in that country, which will be aggravated by the recent introduction of euro (European single currency) and the European common market (ECC). He also assured Mr. Ricardo Teixeira, through his uncle, João Havelange, that Brazil would have an easier way for the fifth championship in 2002. Please pass this message on to as many people as possible, so that everyone can get to know the filth that surrounds football!

I came here to watch about fifa corruption and game fixing and I just heard a collection of BS conspiracy theories explaining Brazil being Brazil and bottling it against a serious team as they always do.

Messi got 7 penalties

"If they knew what happened they would be disgusted" ...Is that from that copypasta?

at the time nobody talked about this but i was sure that brazil the player play very diferent i can bet that they were paid

It's called Daily Dose Of Football but we get weekly videos.

One day, one day... the truth will be revealed.

Aw, come on dude. I liked this channel content before knewing it works with fake news and conspiracy theories

I always believed and felt Ronaldo was poisoned the wc was in France staying in a French hotel the final game was against France & 1 of the fifa presidents was French (BLATTER)who was definitely capable of doing anything corrupt to make sure his country won the World Cup on home soil just remember he got exposed years later for corruption in football the only thing NiKE did wrong was force R9 to still play after he was poisoned because of sponsorship contracts & money been made and spent or received already but I don’t blame NiKE other than that cos it’s too much of a coincidence what happened to R9 the night before the game and he even said afterwards that even tho they lost he’s happy he never lost his life the French had to make sure he either did not play or was not even 50% fit enough to play to guarantee they win and the rest of the squad were probably threatened by French police etc cos they all looked scared and timid on that pitch it was probably my 1st heartbreaking moment in football as that was my 1st proper World Cup as a kid old enough to understand the game and supported Brazil I also think the 7 goal defeat to Germany years later was weird but that Brazilian squad was nowhere near as good as the R9 generation but again Neymar was injured coincidentally just before the final trust me football is sometimes scripted

But in 2022 Argentina really won, you can it in by how the final developed. Muchaaachossss

I think what is often overlooked that while on the whole Brazil had an easier route their semi final was a lot tougher then the French one. The Brazil Netherlands game went all the way to the limit and was a super hard fought battle. With the Dutch team being one of the strongest ever to not make a final.

Not 1 player would take money over a world cup!

Ronaldo should not have played in the Final of 1998 WC. It's a shame Romario wasn't available

France was given the world cup in 98. What a joke. Brazil was way better. Thats why i still consider the 98 wc the worst and the most fixed i ever seen. Zidane and that whole french team was a freaking joke. Ronaldo was poisoned by some entity no doubt about it.

Ronaldo had an epileptic seizure. It is not corruption. Epilepsy is not corruption.

Fun Fact: Since Brazil got knocked out by France in 2006 quarterfinals, this country had never won the World Cup everytime when they face any European teams (Netherlands in 2010, Germany in 2014, Belgium in 2018, and Croatia in 2022). The 1-7 tragedy in 2014 was such the greatest nightmare that shocked the whole world compared to this debacle in 1998 Final.

Be waiting for an in depth exposé of World Cup 2022 as well! 😁

Love u