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Ronaldo has fixed a priceless effect to being asked if Jamie Carragher was 1 of the toughest defenders helium faced during his illustrious playing career.
R9 is simply a legendary fig and, successful the eyes of many, 1 of the top strikers to ever play the game.
The Brazilian's vocation progressive spells astatine Cruzeiro, PSV Eindhoven, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Real Madrid, AC Milan and Corinthians.
And R9 starred for his country, with 62 goals successful 98 caps for Brazil, helping the South American federation to triumph its 4th and 5th World Cups successful 1994 and 2002.
Ronaldo won La Liga with Real during its Galactico epoch with different legends of the crippled joining him astatine the Santiago Bernabeu.
He played alongside Zinedine Zidane, Roberto Carlos, David Beckham and Luis Figo, arsenic helium besides won the Supercopa de Espana and the Intercontinental Cup successful the Spanish capital.
The legendary striker hung up his boots successful 2011 and is down lone Neymar and Pele successful Brazil's goalscoring stats for the nationalist team.
Carragher is of people a one-club antheral having spent the full of his vocation with Liverpool.
At Anfield, Carragher scored 4 goals successful 737 appearances for the Merseyside club and triumph the Champions League, 2 FA Cups, 3 League Cups, the UEFA Cup and the UEFA Super Cup, earlier retiring successful 2013.
Ronaldo Nazario. (Image: Getty)
After hanging up his boots, Carragher has gone connected to person a palmy vocation successful punditry, initially with Sky Sports alongside the likes of Gary Neville.
But successful caller years, helium has besides made a sanction for himself connected CBS Sports during the American broadcaster's sum of the Champions League.
He has starred alongside chap retired professionals Micah Richards and Thierry Henry, and the trio's dynamic with contiguous Kate Scott.
The broadcaster has taken to societal media to station a clip to its channels wherever R9 is asked who the toughest defender helium had ever faced was.
The retired striker named AC Milan and Italy fable Paolo Maldini arsenic the 1 helium felt was the toughest, earlier the interviewer suggested Carragher.
Ronaldo's polite but awkward absorption arsenic helium pulled a look and hesitated with his reply said it each and it has present gone viral, arsenic the Brazilian insisted Maldini was the toughest defender helium faced, though helium was respectful to the Liverpool fable and admitted helium was connected the list.
He said: "I had played with a batch of large defenders, but Paolo Maldini was the toughest one."
Maldini spent his full vocation with AC Milan, scoring 33 goals successful 902 games for the San Siro club, winning 7 Serie A and 5 Champions League crowns with his boyhood club.
Ronaldo was team-mates with Maldini during the 2007-08 play erstwhile the Brazilian near Real to caput to the Italian giants.
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