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Ronaldo vs My Unbeatable Goalie Robot
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00:00This is the world's greatest goalkeeper, because it's a robot, and it's really, really fast.
00:07And this is Ronaldo, the world's greatest soccer player.
00:10Cristiano Ronaldo!
00:11Ronaldo!
00:12Ronaldo!
00:14So the question becomes, what happens when the world's greatest player faces off against the world's greatest keeper?
00:19Woo!
00:21Now to even get to this point, I had to survive the toughest of coaches.
00:25Don't cut the corner!
00:26The strongest of legs.
00:28My God!
00:29A lot of failure, and a little blood.
00:32Look at my hand!
00:33But all that started for me right here at the most iconic football stadium in the world,
00:38when I was invited to play in the Sidemen charity match.
00:40And I came ready to play.
00:42Left back!
00:43Mark!
00:45The biggest stage of football we could ever play, 90,000.
00:47My second favorite moment was when Speed tried to outspeed me.
00:51Challenge from Mark Rober.
00:52Because my first favorite moment was when I got to take a penalty kick,
00:56and score a goal in front of 90,000 of my closest friends.
01:01Now to say this was a dream of a lifetime would be an understatement.
01:05I'd been playing soccer my whole life starting at five years old,
01:08and that's the kind of moment you only dream about as a kid.
01:11The problem was, now that I realized how good that felt,
01:14I couldn't shake the idea that somehow I'd miss my life's calling to compete at the highest level with the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo.
01:21Now normally, because I'm generally uncoordinated,
01:23when I need to compete at the highest level, I just rely on my brain.
01:27Which means I know what it feels like to be a world-class bowler,
01:30a world-class field goal kicker,
01:32that's my boy!
01:33a world-class darts player,
01:35jigsaw champion,
01:36domino lair,
01:37and golfer.
01:38And so while that was a reliable plan B,
01:40if I was ever going to have a chance to actually compete in a sport with my raw athletic talent,
01:45this would be my best shot.
01:46So with the cheers of Wembley still ringing in my ears,
01:49I made my way back to the pitch to meet up with the one person I knew could prepare me for the debut of my professional career,
01:55the GOAT of American soccer himself,
01:57Mark, what's up, bud?
01:59Landon Donovan, how we doing?
02:01And I cut right to it,
02:03asking if there's anything I would first need to know before going pro.
02:06Okay, so you're training twice a day on the field.
02:08Got it.
02:08And then hour, hour 15 in the gym every day.
02:10Okay.
02:11After that, calf raises, okay?
02:1430 minutes a day, you're at home, calf raises.
02:16Every time you're running, ball at your feet.
02:18Ball at your feet, all the time.
02:19Talk about your ice creams and your treats and your dessert.
02:21Lots of stretching.
02:22Yoga, then Pilates as well.
02:24Talking to a sports psychologist.
02:25Keep your heart rate low while you're doing.
02:27It's cutting.
02:27It's sprints.
02:28Keep your hips mobile.
02:28Running, jogging.
02:29It's a massage.
02:31Six more things.
02:32Can you just write this down for me?
02:33Just read my book.
02:34Oh.
02:35Does it come in audio book?
02:36Yes, it does.
02:37It does?
02:37Okay, good.
02:38Let me see what we're working with.
02:39We started by running a five-drill gauntlet to see if I had what it takes.
02:43Starting with the simple exercise of kicking a ball straight up in the air.
02:47Easy enough.
02:48Oh, boy.
02:50No.
02:51Every time you mess up, you gotta take a lap.
02:53Lap.
02:53What?
02:53Apparently, this is a pretty common training technique for soccer.
02:56Don't cut the corners!
02:58My bad.
02:59With every mistake, meaning a full lap around the field.
03:01Try again.
03:03Oh.
03:04Take a lap.
03:04Drill number two was testing my aerial attack,
03:07where I had to practice heading a ball lifted up to Ronaldo's max jump height
03:10at 9.5 feet.
03:17Is it close?
03:18Must have been good, right?
03:19Lap.
03:19Ah!
03:21Soccer's hard.
03:22Test three was the banana kick.
03:23Just like this.
03:24Where we had to put spin on the ball to bend it into the net.
03:30Not bad.
03:31I got it not bad.
03:33Not good.
03:34I got it not good.
03:35I know, I know, I know!
03:36Lap!
03:36Faster, please!
03:38The next two tests involved speed and accuracy.
03:41So just like this.
03:42This one, we had to bomb a ball into the goal from halfway down the field.
03:45That's pretty.
03:47So I gave it a shot, and actually made it pretty far.
03:51Away from the net.
03:52Ah.
03:53Lap.
03:53Dang it!
03:54But I was feeling optimistic about the final test,
03:56because that was aiming at targets at a much closer distance.
03:59So I was pretty sure I was running my last lap.
04:02Don't cut the corner!
04:03Barely cut!
04:04Alright, Mark.
04:05Four targets.
04:05Four balls.
04:06I just had to hit the top right.
04:08Oh.
04:09Oh.
04:10I hit the post.
04:11And then the top left.
04:12And then the bottom right.
04:13And the bottom left.
04:15Oh!
04:15Is that even possible?
04:22I mean, you could have just said yes.
04:24Lap.
04:25Let's go!
04:28Corner!
04:29It's like a foot!
04:30Coach!
04:31Ugh!
04:31I love the effort.
04:33I'd, uh, I'd stick to science, bud.
04:35Ugh.
04:35So with that resounding end to my professional soccer career,
04:39Thanks, Landon!
04:40It's time to start thinking like an engineer,
04:42and initiate plan B.
04:44And so after consulting with the team for a little brainstorm,
04:46this was plan B.
04:47If I want to be the best soccer player in the world,
04:50I'll first need to defeat the best soccer player in the world.
04:52In other words,
04:53I need to switch positions,
04:55and make it impossible for Cristiano Ronaldo to score a goal on me,
04:58by building the world's greatest goalkeeper.
05:01But there's a problem with that.
05:02Ronaldo kicks the ball at 80 miles per hour,
05:04so it'll reach the goal line in just a quarter of a second.
05:07Now if our goalie's centered,
05:08then the maximum distance he has to travel is 12 feet.
05:10That means he'll need to yeet himself to 40 miles per hour,
05:13then slam back on the brakes to zero,
05:15all within 250 milliseconds.
05:17That's literally half the time it takes to blink.
05:20In other words,
05:21I'm going to need some really big motors,
05:23and a bunch of fancy cameras to track the ball,
05:25so we can predict the trajectory after only a few milliseconds.
05:29For the fancy camera part,
05:30we got ourselves 12 high-speed infrared cameras.
05:33So while a normal camera sees me,
05:35and Ian,
05:36and anything else that's randomly in the background,
05:38those 12 cameras only see one thing.
05:40This soccer ball.
05:41And that's because if you look real close on the soccer ball,
05:44we've got these little gray stickers called retroreflectors,
05:47whose surface is made up of tiny little glass spheres
05:50that bounce any light right back at the light source,
05:52like you see with those markers on the road,
05:54or with road signs.
05:56So these cameras blast the scene with infrared light,
05:58and because they can only see infrared,
06:00the retroreflectors glow super bright relative to everything else.
06:04So when you compare exactly where the center of the bright spot is in all 12 images,
06:07and then do some really complicated math,
06:09you get a 3D position of where the ball is down to the nearest millimeter 500 times per second.
06:15For us, that means six milliseconds after being kicked.
06:18We now have three data points that we can draw a line through
06:20to predict where the ball will end up.
06:22In other words,
06:23by the time Ronaldo's kick has traveled exactly this far,
06:26the goalie robot will already know exactly where it needs to be to block the shot.
06:30So we first needed to validate our tracking system
06:33by recording a kick that was faster than 70 miles per hour.
06:36And apparently Ian got Coach Landon's scouting report
06:38because when I showed up,
06:39there were two D1 soccer players already there to take the kick
06:42instead of just asking me.
06:44Ian, I specifically remember telling you,
06:46I can do that for you.
06:47I remember you saying that.
06:48I do.
06:48But I'm nothing if not a team player,
06:51so I volunteered to get in goal.
06:52I'm so confident.
06:53Not only am I going to block your shot,
06:54but I'm going to get at speed at the same time.
06:56Please don't hit me.
06:58I'm done!
06:58I tried aiming away from this.
07:03Medic!
07:03Oh, that's bad.
07:04Look at my hand!
07:05But it would take a lot more than that to keep Mark Rober down
07:08because it's not about how many times you fall,
07:10it's about how many times you get up.
07:12So I cleaned my wounds
07:13and courageously stepped back in the line of fire.
07:16Let's see what you got!
07:17Ah!
07:1966!
07:20That's not bad.
07:21Which was good, but not quite fast enough,
07:23so we had to keep trying.
07:24Oh, wow!
07:2767!
07:29Which I'm assuming will be good enough for the top comment,
07:31but not good enough for our top speed.
07:36Oh!
07:3671!
07:38Yeah!
07:39We now have the data to verify our design would actually work,
07:41which meant we were finally ready
07:43for a 10-second build montage.
07:45This is one-to-one, no?
07:59Yeah, that checks.
08:00Here's how it works.
08:01Those cameras we talked about
08:02all plug into a computer
08:03that figures out super quickly in real time
08:06where the ball is going to end up,
08:08and then it sends that answer
08:09to the pair of 50 horsepower motors
08:11right here and here.
08:12Then each of those motors
08:13is attached to a belt
08:14that whips our carriage-mounted gold
08:16to the exact spot the ball will be,
08:18plus or minus the width of a human hair.
08:21So all that was left to do now
08:22is to see if it actually worked.
08:24Want to try to take a shot?
08:25Do you want to try and block a shot?
08:26Hands away from the keyboard!
08:28Here we go.
08:32Oh!
08:34Wow!
08:35Okay, Mark Rober.
08:36Better luck next time, Mark Rober.
08:38Now to appreciate how tricky that is,
08:39there is a ton of data
08:41with over 5,000 camera frames
08:42updating the goalie position
08:43real time every second.
08:45The only problem was,
08:46this warehouse was basically
08:47in the middle of nowhere
08:48with zero internet.
08:49So I hit up my besties at T-Mobile,
08:51and they hooked us up,
08:52which meant we were firing on all cylinders
08:53thanks to the best network in the U.S.
08:55For my second shot,
08:56I tried to get tricky
08:57with the off-speed kick.
08:59Bring the heat.
09:00Three, two, one!
09:02Wow!
09:03There's no fake-outs.
09:04You've coated the panache!
09:05Dang it!
09:06There's no fool in the sky.
09:08You want to go again?
09:08Finally, in frustration,
09:10I just reverted to raw power
09:11with a kick
09:12that would make Coach Landon very proud.
09:16So while it wasn't yet perfect,
09:17it was certainly looking very promising,
09:19even if I'd already identified
09:21a couple weaknesses.
09:23Oh, shit.
09:23Hey, we weren't ready.
09:24Redo, redo.
09:25So to make sure we had truly worked out
09:27all the bugs before facing Ronaldo,
09:29we decided to gather real-world data
09:30by heading out to a local high school
09:32for some actual competition
09:33in the form of five shooters
09:35of increasing difficulty,
09:36culminating with the final boss,
09:38Destroyer,
09:39a.k.a.
09:40the strongest leg on the internet.
09:42And we kick things off
09:47with what was certainly
09:48the most intimidating opponent to date.
09:50How fast can you kick?
09:51Really fast.
09:53Guess how fast Mark Rober can move.
09:55How fast?
09:56That fast!
09:56That's faster!
09:57Mm-hmm.
09:58All right, Science Bob,
09:59do the honors.
10:02Oh, yeah!
10:05Better luck next time, Jonah!
10:08Okay?
10:09Now, in hindsight,
10:09I do admit,
10:10my round one Selly against Jonah
10:12might have been a bit extra.
10:14That's right.
10:14But regardless,
10:15it's on to round two
10:16versus Tori.
10:17All right, Tori,
10:17what's your strategy?
10:18Corners.
10:19Which corner would you say?
10:20Left.
10:21She's going left!
10:22No!
10:22Tori, best of luck.
10:24Concentration.
10:26Oh!
10:28Tori!
10:28That was a good effort.
10:29Well played.
10:30And with two of six down,
10:31I think it's worth pointing out
10:32now that we were out in the field,
10:34I once again asked T-Mobile
10:35for an internet hookup.
10:36And that's when they suggested,
10:37why don't you just run
10:38the entire robot on 5G?
10:40And I said,
10:40well, in order to stop Rinaldo,
10:41it would need to start moving
10:42in less than 10 milliseconds.
10:44And that's 140th the time
10:45it takes to blink once.
10:46So there's no way
10:47wireless can keep up with that.
10:48And they said,
10:49actually, it can.
10:49And I said,
10:50wow.
10:51And sure enough,
10:51it actually worked.
10:52So like before,
10:53the camera sees the ball,
10:54but now when the computer
10:55picks up where it's going,
10:56that signal flies through
10:57Google Pixel Rock
10:57in the Tensor chip,
10:58ensuring super fast 5G speeds
11:00wirelessly through the air,
11:01across T-Mobile's
11:02portable private 5G network
11:04straight into the robot,
11:05all in less than 10 milliseconds.
11:07Which means by the time
11:07your brain can even register
11:09the ball's moving,
11:09this robot has already
11:10moved to block it,
11:12which is wild.
11:13Our third opponent, Kazushi,
11:14came in hot,
11:15making some very bold claims.
11:16How fast can you kick?
11:17Like 70 miles per hour.
11:19Really?
11:20Kazushi,
11:20I'm going to ask again,
11:21now that I'm holding
11:22a radar gun,
11:23how fast can you kick
11:24a soccer ball?
11:24By 60.
11:26And it just caused
11:27your placement.
11:29All right, Kazushi,
11:29let's see your 60 mile
11:31an hour blast.
11:31Actually,
11:32let's go 55.
11:34Okay,
11:3455.
11:36Oh,
11:37whoa,
11:37whoa.
11:39Yeah!
11:40Let's go!
11:41Unfortunately,
11:42my goalie couldn't keep
11:43a clean sheet
11:43due to some accuracy issues.
11:45For the record,
11:4654 miles per hour.
11:47But failure is part
11:49of the process,
11:49so I took note
11:50and graciously moved on.
11:51Get out of here, Kazushi.
11:53He walks at 2 miles an hour,
11:54I know that.
11:55Our fourth kicker,
11:56Shinya,
11:56stepped up
11:57and just ripped
11:58a real beauty.
12:00Yeah!
12:02Let's go!
12:02How did I save that?
12:04No chance!
12:05Shinya,
12:06what the heck?
12:07You broke my left arm!
12:08That's my bad.
12:09I think it might have
12:10actually hit the post.
12:12Honestly,
12:12that's better than scoring.
12:13I broke it.
12:14Shinya,
12:14get off my field!
12:15My robot counterpart
12:16was definitely starting
12:18to fall apart,
12:18but my hope was
12:19he could keep it together
12:20for at least
12:21a few more saves.
12:22Are you a lefty, Neo?
12:24He's not even saying.
12:25Oh, Mark,
12:25he's tricking you!
12:27Let's go, Neo!
12:28He is left.
12:28No, he's right!
12:29Let's go, Neo!
12:30Yeah!
12:31Let's go!
12:33Good save.
12:33We got good news
12:34and bad news.
12:35We blocked the shot,
12:36but we seem to be losing
12:37material on each one.
12:39We're going apart, man.
12:40Neo,
12:41this is for you.
12:41That's a piece of me.
12:42Better luck next time, Neo!
12:44Robot Mark Rober
12:45was on his last leg,
12:46but there was no time
12:47to tend to wounds
12:48when the final boss
12:49was waiting.
12:49I've watched all these boys compete.
12:51I've seen them do their thing.
12:52Yeah, but we've also been
12:53calibrating and learning ourselves.
12:55I know,
12:55but you haven't seen
12:55a leg like mine before.
12:58Calibrate all you want!
12:59First video of yours I saw,
13:01you bombed
13:01what would have been
13:02like a 70-yard field goal.
13:03It's a light work.
13:04I mean, the wind was...
13:05How you know?
13:06Were you there?
13:07I can see your shorts
13:08doing this.
13:09I've heard enough talk.
13:10Now I want to see the action.
13:11So I gave him three tries.
13:13Simple rules.
13:14Best of three wins.
13:15You're not going to ask
13:15my strategy?
13:16I don't need to know
13:17your strategy.
13:18You just kick it
13:19real hard.
13:20See if you're ready
13:20for this mark.
13:25Right at me!
13:27Oh, come on!
13:28I want to test the body,
13:29see what the body has.
13:3065 miles an hour,
13:32by the way.
13:32Not bad.
13:32I'm just warming up.
13:33Let's try to hit 70
13:33right here.
13:36Yeah!
13:38Oh, boy!
13:39He blocked it, though!
13:41He blocked it!
13:42But he's hurt.
13:42You got to solve him.
13:43I knew he should have
13:44used better glue.
13:45Broke his robot, bro.
13:46This man spent months
13:47designing this thing,
13:48building this thing.
13:49He was bragging about
13:50carbon fiber this,
13:51steel foam this.
13:53I think we might require
13:54a goalie swap.
13:55So after a quick sub
13:56of my critically injured
13:57keeper,
13:58it all came down to this.
13:59The final shot.
14:01And with the score tied,
14:02it was winner takes all.
14:03I think we need to
14:04move you closer.
14:05Closer?
14:05Robo goalie is optimized
14:07for the penalty kicks.
14:08We'll see how optimized
14:09he is.
14:09All right.
14:16Let's go!
14:18And with an absolutely
14:20heroic effort,
14:22literally destroying himself
14:23to get an extra foot of reach,
14:25he made the save.
14:26Well, almost made the save.
14:29No!
14:30No!
14:33Optimized, huh?
14:34So we have some strength
14:35issues.
14:35To be fair,
14:36I feel like the tracking
14:37is working well.
14:38Yeah, it's been there
14:39every time.
14:40But what do you think
14:40our chances are
14:41against Ronaldo?
14:42If you fix the strength
14:43issues,
14:44I think he's got a pretty
14:45good shot against the goal.
14:46While these real world
14:46tests were encouraging,
14:48it was clear we still
14:48had a bit more work
14:49ahead of us.
14:50Ronaldo kicks even
14:51harder than D,
14:52so we'd clearly need
14:53to level up the robot's
14:54strength and durability.
14:56Dang it, he kicks hard.
14:57But even the speed
14:58and accuracy would need
14:59some work.
14:59For the strength issues,
15:01we knew from the beginning
15:02this would be a huge
15:02challenge because to
15:03withstand an 80 mile
15:04an hour kick,
15:05you need it to be
15:05really strong.
15:06But the bulkier and
15:07stronger something
15:08is, the harder it is
15:09to move it quickly.
15:10But it's a trade-off.
15:11Just like how it's
15:12harder for me to move
15:13this big, heavy bowling
15:14ball back and forth
15:15versus this lightweight,
15:16flimsy little ping-pong
15:17ball.
15:18So to solve that,
15:19we just used an old
15:20trick I learned at NASA
15:21where you sandwich a
15:22piece of dense foam
15:23between two sheets
15:24of carbon fiber.
15:25And now you've got
15:26something that's
15:26really lightweight,
15:27weighing less than
15:28a gallon of milk,
15:29and yet,
15:31it's also super strong.
15:33Abs, baby!
15:39But this solution
15:40had one critical
15:41oversight,
15:42our attachment point.
15:43When we looked at the
15:44footage in slow motion,
15:45it was clear before the
15:46ball even made contact,
15:48the damage had already
15:49been done.
15:50And that's because we
15:50had to pull so hard on
15:51the goalie to get it
15:52moving that fast,
15:53we were peeling off
15:55the bracket and the
15:56whole back face in the
15:57process.
15:58So we reinforced the
15:59attachment of the bracket
16:00by adding four large
16:02diameter shear bolts
16:03and a carbon fiber
16:04crossmember.
16:05And once we ran a test
16:06to simulate running the
16:07goalie with the old
16:08method versus the new
16:10method, it was clear
16:12this would make a huge
16:13difference.
16:14Ship it.
16:14To solve the accuracy
16:15issues, we doubled the
16:16number of cameras to 22,
16:18which means we've
16:18doubled the number of
16:19eyes looking for the
16:21ball stickers, so we
16:22no longer have the
16:22issue where we
16:23sometimes would lose
16:24sight of the ball.
16:25And finally, for the
16:26speed, we just pushed
16:27the motors to 250% of
16:28the standard power
16:29levels, which doubled
16:30the robot's speed to
16:3141 miles per hour.
16:33So with all those
16:33fixes in place, it was
16:34time for one final test
16:36to see if we were
16:36finally ready to face
16:37Cristiano Ronaldo.
16:40And the early
16:41indicators pointed to
16:43yes, we were.
16:43The brain is not
16:44meant to see things
16:46that large moving
16:47that fast.
16:48It triggers your
16:49get out of here now
16:50response.
16:50But just to be sure,
16:51we collected a few
16:52more data points.
16:53I think I'm really
16:59liking our chances.
17:00I think this is ready
17:01for the pros.
17:03And with that, let's go.
17:05We were off to
17:06Portugal.
17:08And it turns out
17:11Portugal is a beautiful
17:12country filled with
17:13really cool people.
17:14But unfortunately, we
17:15had no time to enjoy it
17:16because we had only one
17:17day to prepare to face
17:18off against their most
17:19famous countrymen.
17:21An out of the gate
17:22disaster struck because
17:24once we got to the
17:24field and set things up,
17:25our goalie robot was
17:26basically missing every
17:28shot.
17:30Wait, did it move?
17:31No.
17:32But did you want it to
17:32move?
17:33Yes.
17:33Oh.
17:34Something is wrong.
17:35We couldn't get a good
17:35read on the ball position
17:36because there was so much
17:37noise in the tracking
17:38signal.
17:39And this was really
17:39confusing because we
17:40hadn't changed anything.
17:42I wonder what that
17:42noise is from.
17:43It's so clean when we
17:45were in the States, right?
17:46I'm kind of surprised.
17:47I'm looking at
17:48sources of variability.
17:49And so as we step
17:50through all the sources
17:51of variability one by
17:52one, we looked at the
17:53graph of the ball
17:53position from all the
17:54cameras and zoom all
17:55the way in.
17:56The ball seemed to be
17:57wiggling up and down
17:58just a tiny bit about
17:591500 times per minute,
18:01even though the ball
18:01itself was perfectly
18:03still.
18:03And 1500 wiggles per
18:05minute coincidentally was
18:06the same RPM frequency
18:08of an engine you would
18:09find in a forklift that
18:11happened to be moving
18:12all around our field for
18:13the previous three hours.
18:15And that meant the
18:16motor vibrations were
18:17traveling through the
18:17tires through the ground
18:19and ever so slightly
18:20wiggling all 22 of our
18:22cameras, causing the
18:23super delicate tracking
18:25system to basically be
18:26useless.
18:27And so as soon as we
18:28cleared out the forklift,
18:29sure enough, the signal
18:30cleaned up perfectly and
18:31we got back to blocking
18:33shots smooth as butter.
18:36For the most part.
18:38So while Ian stayed back to
18:40tackle that final bug in
18:41the code, I headed off to a
18:42Portugal World Cup qualifier
18:44game to do some last minute
18:45recon on their star player
18:47before he would come over
18:50to meet our robot goalie
18:51after the match.
18:52Now to be honest, I didn't
18:53learn much about
18:54Ronaldo's kicking game, but
18:55I did learn that his fans
18:57are very loyal.
18:58Would you be really not
18:59subscribed for Ronaldo for
19:00me?
19:00Absolutely not.
19:02Because I'm only 5 million
19:03subscribers away from
19:04passing him on YouTube, and
19:05suffice it to say,
19:06no, no, no, absolutely
19:08no, no.
19:10I would not be getting
19:11myself any closer while
19:12in this country.
19:13But the good news is I
19:14know of another country
19:16that has five times the
19:17population of this one, so
19:18do your thing, Argentina.
19:20Now seeing that I was
19:21mere hours away from the
19:22greatest showdown of my
19:23life, I headed back to
19:24the field to wait for
19:25Ronaldo to finish his
19:26game while I ran one
19:27final test.
19:28Because this is a super
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20:36And now that the game
20:37was over, it was time to
20:38face Cristiano Ronaldo,
20:40the greatest soccer player
20:42of all time, a legend on
20:43the field, and oh my gosh,
20:45he's right here tying his
20:46shoes right in front of me.
20:46All of a sudden, this was
20:47real, it was happening, and
20:49I had to show him that I'm
20:50in business.
20:51All right, Cristiano, I
20:52will bet you 5 million
20:53subscribers that you cannot
20:55score on me in goalie.
20:58I'll give you three tries
21:00even.
21:00That I don't score.
21:01Yeah, and you won't
21:01score.
21:02Okay.
21:03Let's go.
21:04Okay.
21:05Now, of course, I didn't
21:06think I was going to stop
21:07all of them, but considering
21:08my lifetime of soccer
21:09experience, I wondered if I
21:11had a shot at stopping
21:12one.
21:13I mean, he is Cristiano
21:14Ronaldo, but I've been
21:15training my whole life for
21:16this moment.
21:17Oh, wow.
21:19Oh, that's not good.
21:21Okay, obviously, I wasn't
21:22going to be able to block
21:23all of them.
21:23I'm not even wearing gloves.
21:26Or even two.
21:27That was like an inch
21:29gap.
21:30Okay.
21:31But now.
21:31Now I know your tells.
21:33I had a shot at getting
21:34one.
21:34Because having seen
21:35Cristiano's form hitting
21:37both the left and the
21:40right, I had a chance to
21:42study his body language to
21:43figure out which direction he
21:45was going to.
21:45Again, the same.
21:47Really?
21:48Yeah.
21:49Oh, wow.
21:51You even told me.
21:53That's disappointing.
21:54One more.
21:55No.
21:56I actually have something
21:57else I want to show you
21:58over here.
21:58It was time to introduce
21:59Ronaldo to my guest of
22:01honor in front of half the
22:02Portugal national soccer
22:03team he brought over with
22:04him.
22:05No biggie.
22:05All right, Cristiano.
22:06When I said you couldn't
22:07score on me, I meant you
22:09couldn't score on my robot.
22:11And I held for applause, as
22:13did my robot.
22:15But Cristiano seemed less
22:16than impressed.
22:17It looks big, eh?
22:18Yeah.
22:19He's a little bigger than
22:20me.
22:20Yeah.
22:21You want to see how fast it
22:22moves?
22:23Yes.
22:23Okay.
22:23Ian, we good?
22:25Let's show him.
22:31Do it one more time.
22:36It's really fast.
22:37The robot is better than
22:38me.
22:40So let's try.
22:41Ronaldo was game.
22:42Here we go.
22:43I wanted to get started
22:44pretty far away from the
22:45goalie.
22:46All right, Cristiano.
22:49We are ready.
22:49Okay.
22:50It was time for Ronaldo to
22:51face some cold, hard
22:52engineering.
22:55Hey.
22:57Let me do another one just
22:58to see.
22:59And his first kick didn't
23:00offer him up any clues.
23:01Do you have a strategy now?
23:02What do you think?
23:03We need to, I don't know.
23:05Let me try again.
23:09That was fast.
23:10Now I'm going to do it with
23:11force to see.
23:17Oh!
23:19So is he better than
23:20me?
23:20Yes.
23:21Ronaldo kept trying to go out
23:23at full force and quickly
23:25realized this was not going to be
23:27an easy fight.
23:28I like that you're stretching
23:29now.
23:29Yeah.
23:30I'm going to do it.
23:30But the only thing taking a
23:33beating was Ronaldo standing
23:37amongst his teammates.
23:40So I took a shot on my own.
23:42If you keep going, you might
23:43tire him out.
23:43I don't know.
23:46I'm just kidding.
23:48Until he gently suggested
23:49I shut my mouth.
23:51Oh!
23:52Which left quite an impression.
23:54Wow.
23:55That would have broken a nose.
23:56The goalie robot looked to be
23:58unbeatable, which was a huge
23:59relief, because when shipping
24:00the robot over here, one of
24:02the carriage rails got
24:03slightly damaged, and this
24:04meant sometimes it would
24:05stop short of the goalpost
24:06on kicks placed to the right.
24:08But thankfully, it didn't
24:10seem to be an issue after all.
24:12You think he could be on
24:13the Portuguese team?
24:14Yes.
24:14Better than Diogo.
24:17It seemed like his theory
24:19was that the cameras were
24:20tracking his body to predict
24:22the ball direction before he
24:23kicked it.
24:24So he ran a simple test.
24:27Oh!
24:28Penenka!
24:29The stutter!
24:32But then he seemed to have
24:33a new plan.
24:33The ball has a sensor.
24:35It's not him.
24:35He's throwing the ball out.
24:37Because he stopped using
24:38his kicks to try and beat
24:39the robot, and started using
24:42his kicks to try and find
24:43a weakness.
24:47I'll try it in front.
24:50Oh!
24:50That ain't potential.
24:52You're in that corner there.
24:53You have to try it with the
24:54cala.
24:55You have to try it with the
24:56gun.
24:57Oh!
24:57Oh!
24:58You have to try it with the
24:58gun.
24:59Okay, I'm getting nervous.
25:00Let me try again.
25:01Okay, okay.
25:02Last one.
25:03What's next?
25:04What's next?
25:05That's what I'm going to do.
25:06Alright, ready when you are.
25:07I'm going to do that.
25:08Love you guys!
25:09Here you are!
25:10Here you are.
25:14Yay!
25:16My mom!
25:17My mom!
25:18The funny thing about lifelong dreams is they always involve a bunch of unexpected twists
25:38and turns on the pathway up the mountain that often end up being some of the best moments.
25:42And even when the view at the top isn't exactly what you first pictured...
25:49Thank you buddy, really appreciate it and all the things.
25:52And very good, very good evening.
25:54It means you can now see a bunch more mountain tops you could potentially climb next.
25:58But those will have to wait for another video.
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