Ronaldo “Ronaldinho” Gaucho

Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, known as Ronaldinho Gaúcho or simply Ronaldinho, is a one of the greatest soccer players of all time and best soccer players of his generation. The retired Brazilian soccer player primarily played as a Central Attacking Midfielder (CAM) or 10. Though, he also played Winger. Ronaldinho Guacho won two FIFA World Player of the Year awards and a Ballon d’Or.

A global icon of the sport, he was renowned for his technical skills, creativity, dribbling ability and accuracy from free-kicks, his use of tricks, feints, no-look passes and overhead kicks, as well as his ability to score and create goals.

RONALDINHO GAUCHO INFO

DATE OF BIRTH: March 21, 1980 PLACE OF BIRTH: Porto Alegre, Brazil NATIONALITY: Brazilian

HEIGHT: 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) WEIGHT: POSITIONS: Center Attacking Midfielder (CAM, 10), Winger (7, 11)

YOUTH SOCCER CAREER

YOUTH CLUB: Gremio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense (played from 1987–1998) FOUNDED: September 15, 1903

STADIUM: Arena do Gremio (55,225 capacity) LOCATION: Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

PROFESSIONAL SOCCER CAREER

YEARS / TEAM / APPS / (GOALS)	YEARS / TEAM / APPS / (GOALS)
1998–2001 Grêmio 89 (47) 2001–2003 Paris Saint-Germain 55 (17) 2003–2008 Barcelona 145 (70) 2008–2011 AC Milan 76 (20) 2011–2012 Flamengo 56 (23)	2012–2014 Atlético Mineiro 58 (20) 2014–2015 Querétaro 25 (8) 2015 Fluminense 7 (0) Total 511 (205)

INTERNATIONAL SOCCER CAREER

YEARS / TEAM / APPS / (GOALS)
1997 Brazil U17 13 (3) 1998–1999 Brazil U20 17 (8)	1999–2008 Brazil U23 27 (18) 1999–2013 Brazil 97 (33)

RONALDINHO GAUCHO VIDEOS

Ronaldinho – Football’s Greatest Entertainment

Ronaldinho Gaúcho video featuring his best skills and goals for FC Barcelona, Brazil National Team, AC Milan. Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and more!

ALL THE GOALS: Every Ronaldinho strike for Barca!

Ronaldinho spent four seasons at FC Barcelona, lighting up the Camp Nou with his dazzling skills and incredible goals. Take a look back at every strike from the Brazilian in the blaugrana!

The Day Ronaldinho Gaucho Played His Best Football Ever

The day Diego Maradona Made Ronaldinho Cry

January 2010: Diego Armanda Maradona is doing a signing session after the publication of his biography. As a big fan of El Pibe de Oro, a 20-year-old Ronaldinho Gaucho decides to meet his idol. But the Brazilian player isn’t just anyone: he is also a massive star. So when Maradona sees him, his words will have Ronaldinho in tears… a wonderful but mostly unknown story.

RONALDINHO GAUCHO DOCUMENTARIES

The Story of: Ronaldinho (UEFA Champions League)

Ronaldinho Gaucho shares his story & special moments in his experiences of Champions League football. (English Subtitles)

Footballs Greatest – Ronaldinho (Documentary)

The Real Ronaldinho Story (Documentary)

Ronaldinho Gaucho Documentary

Ronaldinho Gaucho, the Brazilian soccer star famous for his position as an attacking midfielder or forward, has mesmerized the world with his extraordinary style of play. Popularly known as Ronnie and Dinho, #Fame World is here with another fantastic video of this legendary football player that focuses on his life journey. The video also includes comments and thoughts of several personalities for Ronaldinho including Carlos Alberto Parreira, former Brazilian football manager; Pelé, retired Brazilian professional footballer; Michael Jordan, former American professional basketball player; Lionel Messi, Argentine professional footballer as well as Bertrand Delanoe, French politician and former mayor of Paris.

If you’ve ever thought about giving up, look at Ronaldinho’s journey

Throughout his career, Ronaldinho entertained millions of football fans around the world. With his incredible skills and his infectious smile, Ronnie became a football icon. But behind all this, Ronaldinho is also a human being who has suffered. His parents’ deaths, coaches that didn’t believe in him… Ronaldinho proved to the entire world that you can succeed even if you are different. Ronaldinho revolutionized the game and despite his many trials and tribulations, he’s always kept his huge smile, much to the delight of the football world.

RONALDINHO QUOTES

• When I got to the senior national team, there was another Ronaldo, so they started calling me Ronaldinho because I was younger.
• No matter who you are it’s the simple things in life that lead you to believe that you can achieve anything.
• I learned all about life with a ball at my feet.
• Football is a great love because I was born into a family of players and therefore born into football. I’m fortunate to have a style of play that a lot of people like. It’s a privilege to be able to do what I like best and in my own way, but I’m fortunate that people like it, and that motivates me even more.
• God gives gifts to everyone, some can write, some can dance. He gave me the skill to play football and I am making the most of it.
• Our confidence comes from our preparation.
• Football is about joy. It’s about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.
• I am ugly but what I do have is charm.
• A lot of the moves I make originate from futsal. It’s played in a very small space, and the ball control is different in futsal. And to this day my ball control is pretty similar to a futsal player’s control.
• It is not just about the money, it is about what you achieve on the pitch.
• I have the chance to do for a living what I like the most in life, and that’s playing football. I can make people happy and enjoy myself at the same time.
• No matter who you are it’s the simple things in life that lead you to believe that you can achieve anything.
• For me soccer provides so many emotions, a different feeling every day. I’ve had the good fortune to take part in major competitions like the Olympics, and winning the World Cup was also unforgettable. We lost in the Olympics and won in the World Cup, and I’ll never forget either feeling.
• I helped Messi and I know he will do the same with Neymar.
• Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field.
• My game is based on improvisation. Often a forward does not have the time to think too much. You have a second, rarely more, to decide whether to dribble, shoot or pass to the right or left. It is instinct that gives the orders.
• I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister… because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.
• When I got to the senior national team, there was another Ronaldo, so they started calling me Ronaldinho because I was younger.
• I come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.
• I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing percussion very young, because I had some uncles who were musicians and all my aunts were singers.
• I remember seeing Eric Cantona play for Manchester United. The way he used to control games was special to watch.
• If you’re playing for five hours you don’t want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.
• My heroes were always soccer players.
• Brazil goes into every World Cup expecting to win – so when it is in Brazil it is expected even more. You can’t understand what the World Cup means to our country.
• Ashley Cole is a fantastic defender. I have seen him keep the best players in the world quiet. Read more at https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/ronaldinho-quotes
• Ever since I was a kid, I’ve dreamt about winning the Brazilian league, and I still dream about it now. I am doing everything I possibly can to make my dream come true.
• Even from when Lionel Messi was very young I could see that he was a great player. A lot of people spoke about him, and then when I saw him myself for the first time I could see the amazing quality that he had. I didn’t teach him anything – he had enough quality himself.
• I still have a video of my father, which I watch before every game I play for Brazil. It gives me strength, makes me determined.
• I would like my Dad to be alive so he could see what I am.
• The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play – where you can’t see a way through.
• I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my best talent is dribbling and setting up goal situations, giving an assist or deceiving one of the other team’s players.
• I have never imagined doing anything other than football, but now, thinking about it coldly, if I hadn’t been a footballer, I would have been a musician.
• It doesn’t change much for me really and my motivation remains the same – to create a beautiful future with Barcelona, winning many titles.
• I still have a video of my father, which I watch before every game I play for Brazil. It gives me strength, makes me determined.
• Henry is a beautiful player and has got complete technique, I adore watching him. I respect him very much as a man and as a footballer. He reminds me of myself.
• I am passionate about music – and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn’t true.
• When I was 7, I started playing with a club. The only grass on the field was in the corner. There was no grass in the middle! It was just sand.
• My only concern is playing. Everything else, my family looks after. In our house, everyone has a job, and my job in our house is to play football.
• No one has nicer teeth than me. Why would anyone laugh at my lovely teeth?
• I was at Barcelona for many years where I won a lot of things and achieved a lot of dreams. For these reasons it holds a special place in my life. -Ronaldinho Gaucho
• Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field.
• My best has to be for Barcelona against Villarreal in 2006 – that is the one I am asked most about, and it is the one I am most proud of. Xavi chipped the ball to me, I chested it down, twisted and hit an overhead kick. It was the final goal in a 4-0 win.
• Our confidence comes from our preparation.

RONALDINHO GAUCHO ARTICLES

• Ronaldinho – Ronaldo de Assis Moreira is a former Brazilian professional footballer and now an ambassador for Spanish club FC Barcelona. He was born on the 21 March 1980 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He mostly played as an attacking midfielder but was also deployed as a winger or a forward. His brother was involved with Brazilian professional football club Grêmio which is based in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. His first limelight moment came at the age of 13, when he scored all of the 23 goals in a 23–0 victory against a local team. Ronaldinho has played international football at every age level and was identified as a rising star at the 1997 U-17 World Championship in Egypt. He scored two goals from penalty kicks.
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