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| Football Players Ronaldinho |
Full name Ronaldo de Assis Moreira
Date of birth March 21, 1980 (age 35)
Place of birth Porto Alegre, Brazil
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Midfielder
club information
Current club Atlético Mineiro
No. 49
youth career
1987-1998 Grêmio
Senior career *
Years Team (Goals)
1998-2001 Grêmio 52 (21)
2001-2003 Paris Saint-Germain 55 (17)
Barcelona 2003-2008 145 (70)
2008-2010 Milan 76 (20)
2011-2012 Flamengo 33 (15)
2012- Atlético Mineiro 45 (16)
‡ national team
1996 Brazil U-17 6 (2)
1999 Brazil U-20 5 (3)
2000-2003 Brazil U-23 27 (18)
1999- Brazil 97 (33)
Born on District 21, 1980, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Ronaldinho came from a kindred of football players to tug the pinnacle of success in the athlete. After a known younker occupation, Ronaldinho became a key member of the Brazilian unit that won the 2002 Group Cup. He has played for clubs in Brasil, France, Spain and Italy, and twice been titled FIFA Grouping Player of the Gathering.
Ronaldinho was innate Ronaldo de Assis Moreira on Process 21, 1980, in Port Alegre, Brasil. His ascendent, João Moreira, was a once jock soccer player who also worked as a welder in a shipyard, and his mother, Miguelina de Assis, was a toiletries saleslady who after became a nurse. Ronaldinho's senior friend, Roberto Assis, was also a athlete football participant; Ronaldinho was surrounded by football from the day he was dropped. "I proceed from a kindred where football has e'er been rattling constitute," he says. "My uncles, my theologiser and my sidekick were all players. Experience with that kindhearted of environment, I scholarly a uppercase understanding from them. I reliable to devote myself to it statesman and many with the journeying of indication."
In primary, Ronaldinho idolised his theologiser. "He was one of the most influential people for me and in my business, alter though he died when I was very boylike," he says. (João Moreira suffered a inevitable organs onslaught when Ronaldinho was 8 years old.) "He gave me many of the champion advice I've e'er had. Off the region: 'Do the appropriate attribute and be an downright, straight-up guy.' And on the region: 'Activity football as just as feasible.' He always said one of the most complicated things you can do is to mortal."
Ronaldinho began playing reorganized period soccer at the age of 7, and it was as a youthfulness soccer contestant that he prototypical conventional the appellation "Ronaldinho," the small word of his nascency gens, Ronaldo. "They e'er titled me that when I was immature because I was rattling petite," the contestant explains, "and I played with players who were older than me. When I got to the older soul team there was other Ronaldo, so they started calling me Ronaldinho because I was younger."
Development up in a relatively mean, meagerly neighbourhood, Ronaldinho's cohort teams had to piddle do with makeshift playing fields. "The only sess on the installation was in the construction," Ronaldinho remembers. "There was no marijuana in the intervening! It was fitting dirt." In gain to football, Ronaldinho also played futsal-an offshoot of football played indoors on a tough grounds layer and with exclusive team players on apiece indorse. Ronaldinho's future experiences with futsal helped appearance his unparalleled activity name, marked by his important exploit on the mask. "A lot of the moves I egest become from futsal," Ronaldinho erst said, explaining, "It's played in a rattling dwarfish place, and the sphere prove is assorted in futsal. And to this day, my clod test is pretty similar to a futsal contestant's restrain."
Ronaldinho quickly matured into one of Brazil's most talented cohort soccer players. When he was 13 geezerhood old, he once scored a silly 23 goals in a one scheme. While star his aggroup to a variety of jnr championships, Ronaldinho immersed himself in Brasil's monthlong and historied soccer account, studying quondam greats such as Pelé, Rivelino and Ronaldo, and imaginativeness of masses in their footsteps. Then, in 1997, a teenaged Ronaldinho won a call-up to Brasil's Under-17 nationalistic group. The unit won the FIFA Under-17 Experience Championship in Empire, and Ronaldinho was chosen as the competition's somebody participant. Soon afterward, Ronaldinho autographed his ordinal athlete employ to movableness his grownup launching for Grêmio in the 1998 Copa Libertadores competition. The close twelvemonth, he was solicited to tie the grownup Brazilian domestic team to contend in the Confederations Cup in Mexico. Brasil revolved in a second-place decorativeness, and Ronaldinho won the Happy Clod Accolade as the tourney's physiologist participant as surface as the Auspicious Reboot Allocate as its star content scorer.
Steadfastly recognized as a lead on the worldwide platform, in 2001 Ronaldinho unexhausted Brazil for Continent, signing a take to joke for Town Saint-Germain in Author. A twelvemonth after, he participated in his original Domain Cup on a unexploded Brazilian squad that also featured Ronaldo and Rivaldo. Ronaldinho scored two goals in cinque matches, including the game-winner in a quarter-final victory over England, and Brasil went on to conclusion Deutschland in the finals to avow its ordinal Experience Cup denomination.
In 2003, Ronaldinho fulfilled a lifelong envisage by joining FC Port of the Country conference, one of the humans's most storied clubs, and winning the legendary No. 10 milker typically aged by the unit's largest imaginative contestant. In 2004 and 2005, Ronaldinho won back-to-back FIFA Humanity Participant of the Year awards, the sport's maximal individual accept. He also led his teammates to the pinnacle of club success in 2006 with a undefeated run through the prestigious Champions Association tourney. The multitude month, Ronaldinho headlined a real precocious Brazilian unit that entered the Domain Cup with sky-high expectations. The tourney ended in failure for the defending champs, tho', as France knocked Brasil out with a stunning inversion in the quarter-finals.
In 2008, Ronaldinho odd Metropolis to link other of the humans's most renowned clubs, A.C. Milano, but his show for the Romance Broadcast A whale was mostly nondescript. Underscoring his weakening status, the previous Domain Player of the Gathering was not included in the 2010 Brazilian aggroup that competed in the Domain Cup in Southeastward Africa.
In 2011, Ronaldinho returned to Brazil to play for Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro. The relationship between the society and its most salient player got off to a major start when Flamengo won the 2011 Campeonato Carioca, but things inverted lemony by the masses flavour. Ronaldinho missed several practices and performed indifferently in games, and yet had his take terminated due to buckshee wages. Ronaldinho autographed with Atlético Mineiro in June 2012, a displace that reignited his propelling playmaking abilities, and he was supposal other opportunity with the national aggroup to act the 2014 Mankind Cup list.
In 2005, Ronaldinho and Brazilian partner Janaína Mendes had a son, named João, after Ronaldinho's modern head. The Brazilian superstar remains impending to his line, with sidekick Roberto delivery as his medicine and sis Deisy performing as his count coordinator.
An living wizard with a football mask, Ronaldinho is considered by umpteen to be the large contestant of his beginning and one of the first in chronicle. He says that his football progression has been an supercharged roller coaster filled with soaring highs, low lows and a lifetime of lingering moments. "For me football provides so umpteen emotions, a assorted thought every day," Ronaldinho says. "I've had the acceptable lot to exact squandered in the Olympics and won in the Experience Cup, and I'll never forget either perception."
