Dominando ronaldinho biography

Addresses: Home —Barcelona, Spain. Office —F. Barcelona, Av. Aristedes Maillol, , Barcelona, Spain. Barcelona, July, ; appeared in the and World Cup series. Soccer fans around the world consider Brazil's Ronaldinho one of the sport's greatest contemporary players. Beloved by fans and teammates alike for his easygoing, ego-free demeanor, Ronaldinho is fond of quoting his father, who died when he was eight.

To Sports Illustrated 's Grant Wahl, he repeated words of advice told to him by his parent: "Do the right thing and be an honest, straight-up guy. And on the field: Play soccer as simply as possible. He always said one of the most complicated things you can do is to play it simple.

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A one-name wonder, Ronaldinho was born Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, and is known by the Portuguese-language diminutive of his given name, meaning "Little Ronald" to distinguish him from Ronaldo, a slightly older Brazilian soccer star. Ronaldinho played street soccer at an early age, and loved to dribble the ball for as long as possible because, he explained to Justin Webster, a writer for London's Observer newspaper, "If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time.

I cried. I didn't understand. But now I understand what he wanted. In January of , Ronaldinho lost his first coach.