Place of Birth: Porto Alegre, Brazil
Date of Birth: March 21, 1980
Nationality: Brazil
Position: Striker
Playing at the Club: Flamengo
Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, better known as Ronaldinho was born on March 21, 1980 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Brazilian player occupies the position of attacking midfielder.
Ronaldinho is Portuguese for Little Ronaldo. He is known in Brazil known as Gaucho, to distinguish it from Ronaldo, who has been called by Ronaldinho in Brazil. Ronaldo Ronaldo finally over her name in Europe, which makes Ronaldinho Gaucho unnecessary wear and keep Ronaldinho alone.
Ronaldinho started playing football ability seen since childhood, and he was given the nickname Ronaldinho because he was often the youngest and smallest player in the match between the youth teams. His ability to attract media first, when he scored all 23 goals in a 23-0 victory against local teams. He was regarded as a potential star to shine in the arena after the U-17 World Championship 1997 in Egypt, where he scored 2 goals.
Ronaldinho's career began with a young team Gremio in the direction of coach Liam Higgins. Senior team debut in 1998 in the Copa Libertadores. In 2001, Arsenal almost recruited him, but the move failed because the license did not work out because he was not a European Union player and the number of international matches is not enough. He plans to join the Scottish club, St. Mirren, on loan. But failed because he was involved in fake passport case in Brazil. Finally in 2001 he also joined Paris Saint-Germain.
During the 2001-2002 season, PSG manager Luis Fernandez criticized Ronaldinho preferring to spend time in nightclubs than football. In 2003, he decided to leave because of PSG failed to enter the European level competition.
Initially Barcelona president, Joan Laporta, promising to buy David Beckham. But because he had bought Real Madrid, Barcelona finally switched to Ronaldinho. Debut occurs when a friendly against Milan and scored 1 goal. Ronaldinho earned his first league in the 2004-05 season and became the FIFA best player on December 20, 2004.
Ronaldinho played his 200th game with Barcelona against Osasuna on February 3, 2008. But the 2007-08 season with plenty of time for him through injury. On May 19, 2008, Laporta said Ronaldinho needed a new challenge.
Ronaldinho finally rejected the offer 25.5 million pounds from Manchester City to join Milan, who bought it for 21 million Euros. Because of the number 10 shirt has been worn Clarence Seedorf, he finally chose the number 80 as a symbol of his birth year. Ronaldinho scored his first goal with Milan derby against Inter on September 28, 2008.
On June 26, 1999, three days before the start of the Copa America in 1999 he started his first debut with the Brazilian national team against Latvia.
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