When did Football lose it's soul?

This desu

but why deny the fact that modern football just doesn't feel the same?

nigger, dinho stopped being called dinho when dinho showed up, just because two dinhos sounded stupid
so, again, which dinho?

when football clubs started making billions about 15 years ago, there was no more space for flair players like ronaldinho and neymar, nowadays its all about money money money and numbers stats goals pre assists etc

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Football didn't really change, it's just that you have less and less national talenrs and more teams stacking up on young promises.

R9 was never known for the name 'Dinho', stop being a prick you retard, you know which one it is.

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Around 2003 you could start noticing a decline. By 2007 it lost all its soul.

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bro GALVAO CALLED HIM DINHO for like 2 world cups and 2 copa americas, back then he was called ronaldinho you dumb fucking zoomer

explaining for foreigners

When R9 was young, there was another Ronaldo on the NT. So media distinguished them by calling the older one Ronaldão (very solid FB) and R9 was called Ronaldinho.

Then, our "Ronaldinho" went to Europe and became the very fierce Ronaldo Nazario. But a new Ronaldo was coming and the same logic applied. Ronaldo 9 and Ronaldinho, the wizard.

Only older, borderline millenial brfags call R9 Ronaldinho, specially if they were born like before 1986.

He never called him Dinho, you're the zoomer here. Galvão used to call him 'Ronaldinho', it was never 'Dinho' you fucking imbecile.

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zoomer detected

>had no problem with the PL being manure/arsenigs winslol for years
>the moment chelsea become competitive that's bad for some reason
kys

Ronaldo Nazario = Jesus of Nazareth

>being this retarded
youtube.com/watch?v=Gr4GbOhumLU

nigga THATS WHAT I SAID YOU DUMB FUCKER

bro he thinks we're LITERALLY calling him 'dinho' instead of 'ronaldinho', hes a dumb fucking autist

mate ronaldo isn't ronaldinho, chill out and get it right

The answer is always England. They sell everything for money

Only Ronaldinho Gaucho is known as 'Dinho', ask any foreigner and he's going to tell you. R9 is either Ronaldinho or just Ronaldo, you're the retarded one here.

When Uruguay lost to the netherlands. Atletico losing to Madrid in 2014 was the point of no return.

nah bro, he was called ronaldinho for years here, before R10 went to europe and all
nowadays they're different bro, but is clearly talking about the time when they both were called ronaldinho, R9 was called ronaldinho by galvao during the 2002 WC bro

based tranny fuckers

Get a load of this monkey

Jesus calm the fuck down, fucking autistic monkeys.

Its only nostalgia, you were happier in those times for whatever reason so people just post le soul meme

Here's what I never get, people always bitch about how football has lost its soul, become to cooperate and so forth, etc but then you bring up the hooliganism, racism, etc and people just act like that never happened

This is cope. Literally everything was better 16-17 years ago.

The whole fuckign thread about a discussion of who was called "dinho"
Fucking macacos

that was part of the sovl

when the european champions cup became the european champions league.
when the bosman rule appeared.
when the intercontinental cup became the world club championship.
when the ballon d'or became a huge thing.
when the financial fair play appeared.
when the euro increased to 24 teams.

I mean, it was a gradual process.

rent free

Bosman's rule, especially when the 3 foreign players rule was abolished. We were born in slavery only but it seems normal to us because that is all we know.

Das rite joao.

When it started being broadcast on tv

u mad

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it started when the world cup was created and the final nail in the coffin was the invention of the european cup. both were obvious cash grabs and motivated by the desire to see the best teams play each other. absolutely disgusting. most football and I knew back then were much more interested in accrington stanley versus dagenham and redbridge that in the elite teams

lmao pedant zoomer scum, you surely found that in some trivia from wikipedia and now want to look like an adult, kys

for me it was really the biggest issue among all others. it used to be insanely cool to see english, italian or german clubs filled with nearly all native players

When rich people took it over

2003-2008 definitely seems to be the key period, though the English can argue back to the early 90s when PL was formed

When he retired

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oi me fergie

Its

>Mou
>Fergie
>Wenger

PL changed when these 3 left desu

2012-2014 is when it shifted for me though

It’s the proliferation of the internet. Everyone in the us feels the same about nba/nfl/etc, it all stopped feeling fun around the early 2000s

around 2011/2012 like everything else

Just dont stop running bro

only tryhards call Gordo Ronaldo "Ronaldinho". kill yourselves

Its soul began a long death in 1992 and took a giant leap towards the grave with every foreign takeover of English clubs.

I feel like Arsenal leaving the library was the tipping point, when spiralling debt in pursuit of increased revenue became more important than tradition and what fans want.