November 19, 2005 - The first time I ever saw a Soccer/Football match and guess who it was? This is the reason I watch Soccer, I love Ronaldinho and I love FC Barcelona!!! Rate and Subscribe :) Song 1 = Rise Against - Behind Closed Doors Song 2 = Rise Against - Ready To Fall Song 3 = Rise Against - Hairline Fracture Ronaldo de Assis Moreira (born March 21, 1980 in Porto Alegre), commonly known as Ronaldinho or Ronaldinho Gaúcho,[3] is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Italian Serie A club A.C. Milan and the Brazil national team. He has played for Paris Saint-Germain FC, and FC Barcelona, with whom he won his first Champions League in 2006. He became a Spanish citizen in January 2007. Early career Ronaldinho's career began with the Grêmio youth squad under head coach Celso Roth, who only played him due to immense pressure from team supporters. He made his senior side debut in 1998 He considered playing on loan with Scottish Premier League side St Mirren F.C., which never happened due to his involvement in a fake passport scandal in Brazil.[15] Ronaldinho ultimately signed a five-year contract with Paris Saint-Germain FC. During the 2001-02 season, PSG manager Luis Fernandez claimed that Ronaldinho was too focused on the Parisian nightlife rather than football, and complained that his holidays in Brazil never ended at the scheduled times.[13] In 2003, less than two years into his PSG stint, Ronaldinho made it clear he wanted to leave after PSG failed to qualify for any European competition. Originally, Barcelona president Joan Laporta had promised to bring David Beckham to the club, but following his transfer to Real Madrid, Barcelona entered the running for Ronaldinho and outbid Manchester United for his signature. The magazine Brazilian soccer daily called him the most likely to be mistaken as a horse because of his ugly teeth and they said that he looked Jamacan because of his hair. He made his team debut in a friendly against A.C. Milan at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C, scoring one goal in a 2-0 victory. After suffering from injury during the first half of the campaign, he returned and helped lead Barcelona to a second-place league finish. Ronaldinho won his first league title in 2004-05, and was named FIFA World Player of the Year on December 20, 2004. On March 8, 2005, Barcelona were eliminated from the Champions League by Chelsea F.C in the first knockout round, with Ronaldinho scoring both goals in a 4-2 loss.With Ronaldinho's contract expiring in 2008, he was offered an extension until 2014 that would have net him £85 million over nine years,[17] but he turned it down. In September 2005, he signed a two-year extension that contained a minimum-fee release clause that allowed him to leave should a club make an offer to Barcelona of at least £85 million for him Ronaldinho with Frank Rijkaard at NASA's Johnson Space Center.By the end of the 2004-05 season, Ronaldinho had started to accumulate a host of personal awards. He won the inaugural FIFPro World Player of the Year in September 2005, in addition to being included in the FIFPro World XI. He was named as both the European Footballer of the Year . He was again named FIFA World Player of the Year with 956 points, more than triple the amount (306) of runner-up Frank Lampard.World Cup-winning captain Fabio Cannavaro and Zinedine Zidane.Ronaldinho was named among the UEFA Team of the Year for the third straight time in January 2007, receiving the highest number of votes in over 290,000 nominations. He was forced to miss a charity match on March 13 due to an injury he had picked up several days earlier in Barcelona's 3-3 El Clásico draw with Real Madrid. 1980 births | Living people | 1999 Copa América players | 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup players | 2002 FIFA World Cup players | 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup players | 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup players | 2006 FIFA World Cup players | Brazilians of Black African descent | Afro-Spaniards | Brazil international footballers | Brazilian expatriate footballers | Brazilian expatriates in France | Brazilian footballers | Expatriate footballers in France | European Footballers of the Year | FC Barcelona footballers | FIFA 100 | People of mixed Black African-European ethnicity | FIFA World Cup-winning players | FIFA World Players of the Year | Football (soccer) strikers | Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics | Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense players | La Liga footballers | Brazilian Spaniards | Olympic footballers of Brazil | Paris Saint-Germain players | People from Porto Alegre | People from Rio Grande do Sul | A.C. Milan players | Footballers at the 2008 Summer Olympics | Olympic bronze medalists for Brazil all highlights watch live serie a cristiano messi tv ritter australia cinema nicole kidman music pirates of the caribbean justin timberlake rihanna dribble udinese vs pato kaka shevshenko gabriella queensberry smoke

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