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Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the most valuable footballers on the planet his talent is mesmerizing he's really good technically he's really fast he's an athlete a complete athlete Christiano Ronaldo is one of the best players in the world but what is it that gives Ronaldo The Edge over other players to find out he's come to this specially created state-of-the-art laboratory in Madrid here in a world exclusive Sports Science experts are going to forensically analyze what makes him such an efficient machine Ronaldo will submit to an array of tests each one designed to investigate a different strength in his game it's amazing to see how my body works so it's fun fun day the results are revealing and often surprising as Cristiano Ronaldo is testing Ed to the [Music] limit in this Sports laboratory Cristiano Ronaldo is about to undergo a series of challenges unlike any he's done before he'll undergo tests for body strength mental ability technique and finally skill guiding him through this is football consultant and the Ansa he's teamed up with leading Sports scientists hoping to uncover the secrets behind Ronaldo's tremendous ability we stretch out properly the first of the four challenges is one of the most crucial on a football pitch body strength with 40 goals in a single season Ronaldo is La liga's highest scoring player ever one of the fastest men on the pitch his lower body strength gives him the acceleration to get that hair's breadth nearer the ball and in today's game every millimeter counts to test Ronaldo's sprinting ability Andy has developed veled a two-part challenge first a straight Sprint over 25 M then a 25 M zigzag Sprint designed to measure Speed and Agility to draw a comparison Ronaldo is going to race against professional Sprinter Angel David Rodriguez Rodriguez is the Spanish Champion over 100 meters but how will he compare with Ronaldo over 25 M infrared Bean timing Gates will will give Split Second results and in charge of the test is biomechanics expert Neil Smith we want to see the different muscles and the different components that are used in order to find out who's quicker a sprinter or a football Rodriguez is going to go first take your marks [Music] set how do we do now Ang hit 3.31 seconds Ary Ang girl quality different class it's fast what do you think Ronaldo do maybe the same strong aan you sure yeah I know slow motion replays reveal that Rodriguez makes a strong Explosive Start reaching top speed and under half the [Music] distance all his movements are in a straight line very linear nothing from side to side at all everything is moving in front to back directions no energy is wasted rodrigus has a high knee action this gives him a very long stride length of 2.5 M Ronaldo's Target to beat is 3.31 seconds let's see what he's got coming in buddy let's get Ronaldo on the blocks oh okay new set and girl come and join us what was Ronaldo's time he's done well Andy he's got 3.61 seconds and what was Angel's time Angel clocked in at 3.31 so that's 3 seconds three difference equality different class considering Ang girl classy Sprinter that's not bad at all so Ronaldo narrowly lost the straight Sprint on closer analysis the reasons why are clear from a sprinter's point of view uh Cristiano Ronaldo's technique isn't the best um but then Cristiano Ronaldo is not a sprinter he's very quick Off the Mark but his style is quite different he has to still think about the sprinting that's where his head goes back and if you go like this with your arms the chances are behind you your legs will be doing that also and that means lower knee height because of his usual increase in speed and decrease speed during a game of soccer his stride length is quite short and quite sharp quite staccato and only covers 1.7 m per stride in a 90-minute match Ronaldo will usually cover over 10 kilm but very little of that is in straight line Sprints in football the ability to abruptly change direction is vital so the zigzag course is designed to replicate what happens in a game how well do you think you'll do on the zigzag me me yeah he kicks me let's let's go and do our thing come on guys let's give it a go take your marks get set go Rodriguez is still very fast around this course he navigates the poles well keeping his balance even when his body is almost at 45° at some points Rodriguez completes the zigzag course in 6.86 seconds so Ronaldo 6 point 6.86 to beat what do you think well because this is my my type work I use more this in a game than run in straight line so this is my more my profile my style perfect let's get set okay good man take your marks get set go Ronaldo's Style again has very little in common with the [Music] sprinters okay and girl come and join us so first of all Neil remind us of Angel's score angel came in at 6.86 second 6.86 and then Ronaldo 6.35 so what's the difference there almost half a second there andy almost half a second superb exactly what we was expecting from our footballer correct yeah yeah well what we're hoping there you can see a very big difference between the straight line sprinting we got very long strides nice high center of gravity Cristiano comes into his own here we lower the center of gravity we enable ourselves to push off and accelerate sidewards that center of gravity nice and low their knees are bent the hips are bent and the muscles are hopefully working at their Optimum length because this is my my style you know I I use this a lot in a in a pitch so I guess that I'm more chances in this type of run that's straight line without a shadow of that improved it when we look at the zigzag movements we can see a way that Cristiano anticipates the change of Direction coming into play as Cristiano approaches we see a lot of shorter steps this is in STK contrast to what we see from Angel to change direction he does something that probably most people wouldn't they would almost drop down to the ground to change movement Cristiano Ronaldo almost goes upright goes [Music] taller oh look he jumps into it with two feet this turn here we go yeah there we go there yeah we can see Angel using one foot there to break in one in one particular stride and try and push off in the very next Cristiano's decelerating using both feet yeah places his center of gravity inside the line of his foot and Away goes it's almost like he uses one foot primarily for taking the breaking force as we see that inside foot there then the outside foot is more for the acceleration force and Cristiano places approximately five body weights worth of force through the outside foot towards the next turn so in in what we're seeing now is he multi-talented that that's a given anyway with Cristiano Ronaldo but the way his body works and the way it's built and all the different components that he uses when sprinting affords him the ability to maybe perform in terms of an athletic Sprint at the very high very very highest level yeah he's up there we've seen his speed is up there we've seen the movement and the agil up there he can change direction quickly he can accelerate and decelerate whilst he's still concentrating on the game Ronaldo won by quite a margin his time over the zigzag Sprint was 6.35 seconds clearly his ability to corner at speed gives him an advantage and fundamental to this is muscle strength so before the next test Ronaldo's muscles are going to be measured to see if there's anything unusual okay Ronaldo this is Lis hi so we want to look at your body we want to check everything out what makes Ronaldo special okay okay this is a state-of-the-art Precision 3D body scanner it uses a laser beam to create a visual profile of the exterior body shape and gives us exact measurements like height 185. one cm chest 109 Ronaldo has extremely lean well-defined musculature he has 3% less body fat than a super model his thigh circumference is 61.7 CM which is well above average but his calf muscles are less developed and the scan exposes a fact about their size that surprises Ronaldo having uneven calve muscles hasn't held Ronaldo back in fact his body dimensions are part of the secret to his success he has the long legs of a sprinter the lean physique of a middle distance Runner and the powerful thighs of a high jumper what sets him apart is that he has all those attributes in one body like tuning an engine for high performance Ronaldo has tuned up his body strength significantly over recent years he's increased his wind rate in the air from 40% to over 66% he can now fly higher than many of his opponents so next Ronaldo's explosive jumping ability is going to be tested here we are okay Ronaldo this is the high jump no explain to us how this works what we're going to get you to do is a test of lower body power the higher you jump the more powerful your legs are going to be so we're going to place you on the mat we're going to instruct you to jump as high as possible give it you a maximal effort and try and land back on the mat again this mat is actually a very sensitive pressure sensor that measures takeoff force and the keeping is his hands on his hips correct you're going to try not to use the arms as an extra counter B so that's why we do this so that he can't use his arms as elevation it's just about to concentrate just on explosive power okay 3 2 [Music] 1 the result is surprising Ronaldo jumps only 44 CM barely average with a force of just one and a half times his body weight something's wrong so now this is the thing that you don't jump like that in the game we have to make it relevant to football of course if you jump with threee hands is better you jump more then yeah you're quite limitate so can you also register that if I get Ronaldo to jump if he comes in and jumps up off one foot and lands we'll get the impact of the pressure as he hits the pressure plate let's try that let's try that 3 2 1 go now the results are very different Ronaldo's body strength enables him to jump 78 CM Which is higher than the average NBA basketball player can jump his takeoff force is almost five times his body weight or 5 GS the same as an astronaut goes through at takeoff but what's more intriguing is what he does in the air when he jump jumps high he tucks his knees and his legs up behind under his buttocks this has the effect of raising the center of gravity temporarily but enables him to get this impression of hanging in the air ready for him heading the ball into the goal excellent good good good awesome Ronaldo let's move on to our next test very hard because you you have to give 100% everything that uh you involve Ronaldo's muscle distribution and raw body strength contribute significantly to his ability but the next set of tests will reveal how important his mental ability is to his game and the results are truly [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] stunning [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] for the first time time Cristiano Ronaldo is being put under the microscope Sports scientists are testing the component parts that make him one of the Well's most valuable footballers his body strength has been tested but now scientists are going to test his mental ability how much of Ronaldo's success comes from what his mind is doing on the pitch he is as well a little bit air of arrogance you know but believe that he is the number one first he comes from the fact that you know you can deeply inside himself he knows that if he wants he can pass anybody if you are strong mentality the quality is coming natural so I always try to be focused in my game and um my mental is is quite good to find out how his mental ability contributes to his performance the scientists are going to start by testing Ronaldo's spatial awareness they're fitting him with these state-of-the-art eye trackers that will reveal exactly what he looks at when he [Music] plays okay left one they are operated by equipment specialist John Ward and up to the top perfect that's good and running this test is sports psychologist Zo whims Hurst with Ronaldo he's going to be using all of his senses pretty much while he's playing probably around between 80 and 90% of the information that he's taking in will be coming through his eyes during this test Ronaldo is going to try to stop Andy taking possession of the ball and the technology will reveal how he does it so John the eye tracker explain to us exactly how this works okay so you both wear an equipment where we have a camera looking at the eye and it uses infrared light to reflect from the eye this picks up an image and we have a camera at the front here that looks at what you're seeing so yourself and Cristiano the software will then match those two together we'll see exactly what you guys are looking at Fantastic let's do this thing okay let's see if you can keep that ball 5 seconds away from me play that's good 5 Seconds that's a good 5 Seconds that is quality there's no doubt that Ronaldo's feet are fast and effective but what part does his mind play in this [Music] ability the ey trucker show intriguing results on the replay the Little Red Dot shows exactly what Ronaldo's looking at you'd expect a lot of players to be focused on the ball the whole time with Ronaldo he did look at the ball a fair amount of time but he was much more looking around looking at the defender and taking in the information from his body and also scanning for the spaces Beyond The Defender Andy on the other hand can't afford to take his eyes off the ball because he doesn't have quite the same ability to predict where the ball is going to actually see what's going on we need to slow it down to onethird of actual speed that's how fast Cristiano is so you didn't have much of a chance I'm afraid thanks in 8 seconds he pulled 13 moves on you okay and we're not just talking kicks of the ball we're talking step over spins oh it was beautiful so you can see here on the The Gaze data you can see he's concentrating on the ball but what you'll see in the interesting thing is when he wants to go past you and looking how you're moving he's predicting where you sort of going to be he's looking for movement in the hips to sort of plan his next move so he he looks at the ball then he looks at where I move and then he executes his his trick you see it comes in looks at your foot looks to the other one up to the hip really accurate precise sharp movements and then when we look to watching you you're mostly trying to follow the ball which means you're only ever going to be able to react to where the ball is moving rather than anticipate in advance anything that he's going to do so you're always going to be that one step behind and also your eye movement you can see is much more all over the place my this looks more like a pimble where my eye is going he's locked in you're constantly chasing him basically and I bet if you asked him you probably wouldn't know what it was that he was looking at it's all in his subconscious he knows where he's picking up the information that's going to best help him and without even thinking about it he's looking for those angles of your hips your knee and your foot and obviously it's working pretty well for him so that's just second nature to him yeah Ronaldo's subconscious ability has come from thousands of hours of practice which have filled his mind with so many permutations of the game to tap into that when it comes to match play he has an uncanny ability to perform without having to think or even look at the [Music] ball he is effectively a scholar of football it's the same way as studying any other subject learning a new language anything like that you build up experience you learn the basic rules of grammar in the different words that are available to you so in football terms that's going to be the skills then putting them into a match situation and so as you become more fluent in the language you don't need to think about it as much so Ronaldo's vast experience gives him the ability to intuitively read the game under normal conditions but what if the conditions are very far from normal can Ronaldo still hit the back of the net if all the lights are turned off and he's in complete darkness okay what we're going to do we're going to have Andy feeding the balls in as if it's a cross and then sometime in the ball flight the lights are going to go black so you won't be able to see anything at all we're expecting you to be able to put the ball in the goal that's what we're hoping will happen we're hoping that you'll have picked up some Advanced cues from Andy's body position the shapes the positioning of his feet and his hips and therefore we'll be able to tell exactly where the ball's going to go and get yourself in the right position even though you can't see it okay taking Ronaldo on in the seemingly Impossible Test is an amateur footballer called Ronald come and join me Ronald Ronald Ronaldo so we've got Ronald in here same age as you roughly the same height we're going to use Ronald as a comparison and see how he reacts doing this same test Ronald is going first DOC light [Music] light so what does the night vision reveal Ronald misses the ball by quite way perhaps not that surprising but can Ronaldo do any better I hope to do once doc light hey that's one straight in the bag the night vision replay shows how differently Ronaldo [Music] performs to confirm that wasn't just Lu another attempt dark light love that be careful and the [Music] replay how hard is that it's difficult because it's change a lot yeah because you are focusing the ball and after non light you you have to try to to memorize the ball human reaction time is about 200 milliseconds and by 500 milliseconds Ronaldo subconscious has interpreted Andy's body language worked out which direction the ball will go in calculated its speed and trajectory and then programmed his body to reach it at the optimum moment love that it's almost as if they're doing maths in their head even though they wouldn't be able to describe it to you you could see from their performance that Ronaldo saw the first part of the ball flight information he picked up information from Andy kicking the ball and was able to move his body into the correct position this is because he's process the information he has experience of where the ball is likely to go he's able to analyze all that as it's coming towards him and therefore connect successfully with the ball love that Ronald on the other hand doesn't have the same level of experience he would have watched the ball fight it's likely that he would just have had his eyes on the ball instead of picking up any information from Andy himself and then when the lights go down and it's black he's kind of stranded in no man's land a little bit and just has to do his best to react but is naturally going to struggle with that so far the lights have been shut off when the ball is in midair but now the lights will be turned off just at the moment Andy kicks it can Ronaldo score with only Andy's body language to go on here you go we'll get one we good yeah good okay Ral done dark light light Ronaldo quality what's that shoulder great finish great [Music] finish that was a great finish this is great cuz I I imagine the ball is coming I get to go with the with the face so I go with half chest half shoulder and then put the ball inside quality great finish so zo tell me how difficult is that I mean the last one when we adjusted the time of the lighting yeah it's so difficult they've done studies like this using computer simulation so you watch it on a computer and just have to say where the ball's going and from them they can see that Elite athletes can tell much earlier where the ball's coming from but to have to actually produce a physical response when a ball is flying at you then it's really good skills amazing top man that's ledge thank you I was dreading I was going to hit you in your face with one them balls that was my worst fear the test proves that Ronaldo can perform an almost impossible task he can make decisions this quickly and with such little information to go on because in his subconscious he's an expert in the science involved Ronaldo can tap into that knowledge tap into his memory banks and he can then use that to help him so what you're saying despite of the location cuz it's the first time being here he's still recalling the pictures what he's done previous before and on other location maybe in matches and in training and he's recalling all those messages and then his brain saying this is the execution exactly and that's kind of the whole point of people training even though they can't train in a match environment they can still take their experiences from the training ground put it into practice in the match take things from one match and utilize it in another and even utilize things in a really strange situation like we've got here in terms of the match this means that instead of having to track the ball completely onto his foot he could be scanning to see where the goalkeeper is if there's any movement there so he can then place his shot past where the goalkeeper might be well it's it's base of My Success is to improve myself all the time so this is why I'm one of the best players in the world next Ronaldo's technique is tested as scientists dissect his most formidable weapon the one that goalkeepers fear most his free kick [Music] [Applause] [Music] together [Music] scientists are taking apart Cristiano Ronaldo's body to discover what makes him one of the world's most valuable footballers so far his body strength and extraordinary mental ability have been examined the next set of tests will investigate his amazing technique is it this that gives him the edge Ronaldo's free kicks are as famous as they are effective fast accurate and unpredictable his success rate is three times the average no one else in the world has mastered his technique so the question is how does he do it it's a Portugal Brazilian is uh free kick because he has this ball goes up and down and that makes it extraordinarily difficult for for the goalkeepers is really dangerous when you shoot the free kicks crisano Ronaldo style is like a a punch on the ball Ronaldo has probably got one of the most efficient power application models of kicking uh that there is in in terms of the amount of effort that he puts in and the return he gets on the ball speed to find out how he does this the scientists are going to analyze his free kick in minute detail what we're going to do now is put reflective markers all over your body so the cameras can pick up all your movement and we can see the in 3D we can see all your movement how you move how your Technique is when you're strikeable okay so let's apply the markers on him now okay we're going to go for a full body Marker set here essentially what we're looking for is we got 10 infrared cameras that they're going to sample 300 times a second and hopefully what we get then is a three-dimensional reconstruction of exactly what happens during your kick this process is called 3d motion capture it's what video game animators use but this is the first time it's been used to analyze Ronaldo's free Kick the most important bits of course are going to be on the leg so we can then identify just how fast his uh his leg is traveling so we put these clusters on this part here stick this down so that's for the joint yeah how often will you do fre kit practices in terms of practicing your Technique depend one time per week once a week you just do it after training just repeated 25 balls 30 20 35 balls do you generally do it with a goalkeeper in there yeah with goalkeepers yeah yeah yeah there we go beautiful so now we're going to do your free kicks but I'm not going in goal we got your former teammate Jersey dur hello how we doing CHR I'm going nice to meet you good man let's go let's get set Andy has set up the lab with the goal 20 M away to begin Ronaldo will take a free Kick employing the technique he uses to bend the ball over a defensive [Music] wall okay Ronaldo and [Music] play it may be over in the blink of an eye or 900 milliseconds to be precise but what happens during this time is fascinating to get the ball to curve Ronaldo must strike it in exactly the right place this is something that is achieved by hitting the ball off the center of mass so we're hitting it almost to the side of the ball and using the inside of our foot to wrap around that ball and generate spin once we've generated the spin this creates a difference in pressure between the inside of the ball and the outside of the ball and we'll tend to push the ball towards the direction of low pressure hopefully then this curves over the top of the wall and the keeper won't see the ball until the last minute the Precision is extraordinary he sends the ball spinning around a perfectly vertical axis veering off its normal straight trajectory by more than 3 [Music] m but perhaps what Ronaldo's most famous for is his devastating power kick or knuckle ball if we then take a look at the way Cristiano hits his knuckle ball this is a free kick where very little spin is imparted to the the ball [Music] play what we then get is a contact more towards the ankle joint Center this of course is going to generate less spin to the ball striking the ball right in the middle and giving it virtually no spin sends it off in a dead straight trajectory but at the last second the ball unexpectedly deviates off course is really danger for the keepers because it's impossible to understand the trajectory of the ball he hits it with the laces and the bow floats as well so it it has a double effect it comes down very late but during the whole move of the kick it moves sideways if the ball spinning is easier difficult to to catch but easier to understand the TR it's all down to aerodynamics and the secret of Ronaldo's knuckle ball is in the seams when the ball's spinning fast the seams have no effect but when the ball isn't spinning the seams can catch in the Wind on one side and not the other it's just enough to make the ball deviate the slight movement of the ball in the air can generate the movement of the seams to generate a turbulence that varies from one side to the other side of the ball makes it almost impossible for the keeper to react into which way it's going to move first how does it feel being a goalkeeper when he strikes the ball straight on this trke is very hard to read obviously the B fly is like a balloon you know it goes left right up and down cuz the ball move around they can you know save b or the finger understand it's difficult because the ball move a lot I think sometimes it makes uh goalkeeper scared when you know when you see christano coming brilliant well done well done Jersey so this is what dck would have seen in G this is perhaps the cues that he might get to pick up on the amount of weight and pressure on the standing foot before he strikes with his right foot that's got to be huge it's fairly large we're talking round about 30 Stone going through his going through his foot there so how come the bones don't don't break as you saw before as well very very strong musculature he flexes that leg slightly on impact as we then come towards this Point here all the energy that we've stored in this segment around the pelvis and around the thigh then gets translated through the knee that power flows through the knee to whip through to the ball very much if you imagine like a cowboy with a whip he moves his arm and then stops it the end of the whip goes so fast y Ronaldo moves his thigh very fast then stops IT and the end of the end of the foot comes through so quick looking at the kick from the front it's clear that Ronaldo's posture is also Al a factor I have a phrase that I I call the pillar which is basically the crutch to the top of your head if that pillar is straight and it is with Ronaldo particularly on his spot kicking and his legs are an extension of that line even though you might tilted on its side okay there is still that flexion type of movement coupled that with the fact that his body moves through the ball you've got a pretty potent power model there but just how much speed does this power generate Andy has designed an unusual test to find out inspired by an event in Ronaldo's childhood six sheets of glass are arranged around a speed monitor Ronaldo will fire the ball at this glass Target what is it like as a kid smashing Windows well when I'm when I'm kid I'm I think I'm break just one glass of one neighbor it was very very problem because when I'm arriving home my mom kick my ass this is so this is the perfect situation where you can smash glass and no it's okay no it's not problem nobody going to kick my ass so I'm [Music] happy as much power as possible so we can smash them glasses Ral this is your chance to take your free kick with no restrictions nothing at all is going to hold you back [Music] [Music] o that's mad look at that I'm going free free taken out so what speed has been recorded what we wanted to do is see just how fast that ball speed actually was this is pure unadulterated maximum speed and we can see we took our readings from the ball here and we're hitting round about 35 m a second or that will translate into 80 M hour 80 M hour 80 M hour yeah that's ferocious Ronaldo's free kick is one of the fastest in the world it's a match winner and one of his key strengths a trademark that involves a unique and unconventional technique the rest want to do the rest let's take the rest [Music] out [Applause] it's better that felt better huh yeah look at the damage here just here look at the damage down there straight through it's clear this area let's clear this you need those that's the only time you don't get in trouble for smashing glass in the final challenge Ronaldo will need to use all his fine-tuned abil I ities in one amazing test of [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] skill [Music] [Music] like never before Cristiano Ronaldo's Talent is being put under the microscope so far his body strength mental ability and technique have been [Music] dissected but there's one aspect of Ronaldo's game still to test his breathtaking skill one of Christiano Ronaldo's biggest strengths is how quickly he's able to to move his feet the laboratory has been reconfigured as a 25 M course with a finish at the far end the challenge is for Ronaldo to run with the ball from one end to the the other but lined up against him is a team of weapons trained snipers armed with laser sighted guns they will try to shoot the ball the course is divided into three sections and as Ronaldo makes it from one section to the next the number of snipers increases final test snipers alley this is how it's going to work when they hit the ball it will make this noise you're going to hear that okay when they miss you're hear this I fully expect you to make it from the beginning to the end without a sniper getting you okay okay let's give it a go to get through the course without the lasers getting a lock on the reflective ball is an incredibly tough challenge Ronaldo will have to perform skills not just at speed but in ways that the snipers can't predict will he be able to dance his way through the beams okay Ronaldo the final test free two one section one keep it keep it keep it keep it keep it good good good keep going keep going good good I hit and go on go on go go go go go keep going keep going good keep going keep going good good good now section two go keep going keep going good good good good good good good section three good good good I'm [Music] finished qu how hard is that difficult difficult one shot one only one got you then one one rabbit one rabbit tremendous what's the hardest thing it's just not standing still yes most of the times I dribble and I go forward but here you have to stay around which is is more difficult it's a lot more difficult and I think it's more easy for them usually you'd move a lot quicker go away no it's just for I give you opportunity to them to to give a shot you're being fair playing it fair yeah [Music] perfect so how did he manage to get through the course virtually unscathed when Cristiano was doing the test with the snipers see a lot of very good very impressive close work with the ball lot of skills on show [Music] he manages to combine a c turn with rolling the outside of his foot over the top of the ball swiveling back around then drops his center of gravity knocks the ball from his feet and accelerates away leaving his opponent for dead if we watch something such as the step over we'll see that the timing of the step over occurs at just the right time to make the opponent think that he's going to move one way before offering them the signal to move the other but the key is that fast foot movement lots of little touches and keeping the ball moving it was really amazing to see that he managed to perform so well in a situation that he wouldn't necessarily have been in ever before but he could still keep control keep his beliefs nice and positive there will have been no thoughts of failure no thoughts of what happens if I lose control that just won't even enter his head at all it's complete belief in what he's going to do remaining positive the whole time some people dance over the ball but he don't move the ball he move the ball a dance over the ball it's difficult for the opponent to stop him the ball is like a rabbit it's impossible to to shoot the ball amazing Ronaldo how you found the test today well for me to fantastic day to see how how my body works we to do tests what we did I think it's amazing so it's it's great for me thank you for the opportunity I try to improve much much better there's not much more you can improve it's been a great day test thank you very much good man Cristiano Ronaldo's footwork is perhaps the most influential factor in his rise to become one of the most successful goal scoring machines in history but today's tests have revealed how his body plays a crucial role in his Effectiveness on the pitch one of the most impressive things about him was his strength and his power I think this is what sets him apart alongside that high high level of skill he has and something other players find it very very hard to replicate his body strength contributes significantly in all areas of his [Music] performance but his technique enables him to generate maximum [Music] power it's the mental strength that he shows to be able to perform in front of huge crowds under massive amounts of pressure but also the decisionmaking processes that he has to make constantly while he's on the pitch we often forget how big an athlete Ronaldo is and uh we often forget that this guy delivers between 50 and 6 65 games per season and that's in an offensive position as a striker that's absolutely exceptional some players can do it in training but cannot deliver it in the big games Ronaldo can and that's why he goes in the category of the the great players what gives Ronaldo The Edge over so many other players is that he's strong in every single aspect of his game and that's the secret to his winning [Music] performance my strength is to do the right things to eat good to sleep well to training well and uh to improve myself in the football I do it always things to focus for the [Music] football [Music]

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Length: 47min 46sec (2866 seconds)

Published: Thu May 17 2012