"The first time I faced Ronaldo was in Parma. The game started and I immediately noticed the way he got the ball, it was mesmerizing.

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He did it at a speed I had never seen before.

That day he went past me and as he was about to score I yelled:

– Fabio (Cannavaro), take him down, don’t let him go! And the ref called a foul and gave a yellow card.

The next play, another one-on-one, he accelerated with the ball again, and this time I had to bring him down.

Fabio looked at me and said: 'Thuram, how are we going to stop this guy?'

Ronaldo heard all of it, and in terrible Italian said:

'Yeah, sorry, I’m overdoing it.'

I looked at Cannavaro and in our eyes we knew we couldn’t stop that guy.”

Lilian Thuram on the phenomenon that was Ronaldo👏🇧🇷