Rivaldo, who came from a poor family, started his career at the age of 17 and spent four years in the Barclays Premier League with his hometown team Santa Cruz.
Remember the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, just after his 24th birthday, Rivaldo in the semifinals because of two errors with the ball, by the "African Eagles" Nigeria equalized the score, resulting in the final elimination of the Brazilian team, and the championship. But it was the superstar potential unleashed at the Olympics that attracted him to European teams, and he successfully landed in La Liga to join Deportivo La Coruna, where he scored 21 goals to help the team finish third in the league, and his jersey-over-the-head celebrations after scoring every goal were unforgettable as well. It was the impeccable performance of that season that made the wealthy La Liga giants Barcelona pay an unprecedented $92 million in liquidated damages, signing a six-year contract to bring him into the fold.
In the summer of 1997, Rivaldo joined Barcelona, his arrival really made up for the regret of Ronaldo's departure, and that season's Spanish National Derby, he proved his worth with a pass and a shot, 19 league goals, also let him win the title of the best foreign aid in the Spanish league that year, the 1997-1998 season, he helped Barcelona to become the double champion of the Spanish League and the King's Cup, and he also helped Barcelona to become the best foreign aid. The double champion of the La Liga and the King's Cup, this is the first time that Barcelona ushered in the first impressive performance after 1959.
The league's excellent performance allowed Rivaldo to wear the number ten jersey of the Samba Army in the World Cup, and in the summer of France in 1998, he ended the Danish Golden Generation by scoring twice in the game against Denmark. But in the end, the Brazilian team with the alien Ronaldo unfortunately won the second place. Did anyone notice that Rivaldo scored only one goal less than the hot Ronaldo in that World Cup?
Whether at club or national level, Rivaldo's breathtaking goal-scoring ways are too numerous to count. Remember the 3:3 showdown with Manchester United where he scored a free kick and a reverse hook to beat the Red Devils. And the 1990 Copa America, although the group stage did not score a goal, but into the knockout rounds after the game into their own show, his continuous goals to help the Samba Army successively eliminated Argentina, Mexico, and in the final, facing Uruguay, opened the second time to help the Samba Army back-to-back champions, Rivaldo took home the tournament's Golden Goal Award and the Golden Boot Award, that is his year in the world of football, the European football world, the year of the great glory, the league title, after the Copa America title, the champion, and the champion of the European football world, the Samba Army. After the league title, the Copa America title, Spain's player of the year, Mr. World Footballer, European Golden Ball Award laurels as promised.