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Player Profile: Ronaldinho

February 27th, 2006 | By: Euler Costa | 14 Comments »

He is the man. The #1. Ronaldinho has been awarded the FIFA World Player of the Year award twice (2004-2005) and once as the European Footballer of the Year award (2005) and the FIFPro World Player of the Year award (2005). I remember when he played for the first time with the Selection he was 19 and everybody knew he was good but, as usual, he had to prove that the yellow shirt would not lock his talent as we saw happen many times with other players. But he played amazingly.

The year was 1999, the competition was Copa América. Brazil was playing against Venezuela. He received a pass in his chest, touched the ball over a defender and shot the winning goal. Such class, such talent, such smile… we knew then that he were Selection material. Of course we knew that he would go play in Europe too, sadly. We won that Copa América.

Awarded Again! (photo credit)

While some people here at our World Cup Blog are eager to show their hero’s video clips I can’t do that. There are too many videos to choose just one. Some are too big to display here, so I’m going to tell you where to get some fantastic videos of him. If you register to the site you can download the videos and that’s much, much better to watch. I’m downloading all of them.

I was reading some articles about him and there is a common mistake about his nickname. People usually think that the “little Ronaldo” (inho) thing is to be different from the Phenomenon Ronaldo, but that’s not true. Ronaldo was also called Ronaldinho. We added “Gaúcho” to Ronaldinho’s nick to know about who were we talking about. Gaúcho is not a real name, is where he comes from. It would be like Ronaldo Carioca (Carioca = from Rio). So we had 2 Ronaldinhos and the Gaúcho was added to differ one from the other. When Ronaldinho from Rio went to Europe people started to call him just Ronaldo. He was not a little guy anymore, so that’s the true story about Ronaldinho’s nickname.

Nowadays he has been playing for Barcelona with Argentinean Messi and their team is leading La Liga. Ronaldinho’s moves are an inspiration for players around the globe and another reason for Brazilians to be proud of our talent factory.

I hope he will display everything he knows, all his talent, in Germany. If he do that we can expect him to be a football icon for many years.

- Ronaldinho won’t play against Russia (damn!)
- Maradona likes him too
- Pele’s opinion about Ronaldinho
- Brilliant! Says BBC’s football expert
- Wiki’s complete profile

Tags: best player, Brazil, Diego Armando Maradona, Pele, Ronaldinho Gaucho, Selection

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Comments

By Trent | February 27th, 2006 at 7:48 am

Hi Euler-

I didn’t know that about Ronaldinho’s nickname. Thanks!

Also, what do you know about the comic book character that’s supposedly based on Ronaldinho?

-Trent

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By Euler | February 27th, 2006 at 5:34 pm

Hi Trent!

His comic book character was announced but not yet released for sale, so I’m not sure about what’s it really about.

The author, Mauricio de Souza, had a Pele character in the past too, that appeared sometimes in Mauricio’s regular comics, but the character was too politically correct and always had a message for the young kids. Not very amusing…

I imagine that it will be the same now with Ronaldinho’s character. Probably will fade out in one year or two.

This site is in Portuguese, but there are 2 images about that:

http://www.universohq.com/quadrinhos/2006/n09012006_01.cfm

Click at the links there and you’ll see some samples of Pelezinho (Pele), Dieguito (Maradona’s character that was quickly aborted) and one of Ronaldo (never published). Very interesting!

By Trent | February 27th, 2006 at 8:11 pm

Euler-

Thanks for the link!

Trent

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By juniordinho | December 13th, 2006 at 1:52 pm

hi ronaldinho,i like you so much that i will like to see you one day pls i like playing football but i cant find a better club here in nigeria so i would like you to sponsor me to come over where you are i will like you to teach me football skills very well so that i will one day be like you the world best player please….i love you contact me with this 08050744996..love yu greet rijkaard for me please…

By lumena | May 2nd, 2007 at 1:35 am

hi dinho i like u soo much. i come from east timor. but i do not know portuguese well. so i am writeng in english. i hope you can contact me. i always watch you when you are playing. i like your playing. please keep your talent show the world that you can take the best, ok. please do not forget to our god. god bless you always remeber me to ur family , friend and girl friend.

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