Ronaldinho
Ronaldinho
Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, commonly known as Ronaldinhoor Ronaldinho Gaúcho, is a Brazilian footballer. His main playing position is as an attacking midfielder or forward. He won the FIFA World Player of the Year award in 2004 and 2005. Renowned for his technique, tricks, dribbling, overhead kicks, no-look passes and free kicks, Ronaldinho is regarded to be one of the best players of his generation...
NationalityBrazilian
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth21 March 1980
CityRio Grande Do Sul, Brazil
CountryBrazil
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.
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.
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.
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.
Football is about joy. It's about dribbling. I favour every idea that makes the game beautiful. Every good idea has to last.
I learned all about life with a ball at my feet
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.
They are three very important competitions. I am trying to take each one at a time. My priority is to win the Champions League which is the top club football competition, something that any player wants to win,
Brazil go 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. Not just the fans and players, but everybody in Brazil lets us know that they expect it. Our president, people in politics, all tell us to come back with the World Cup.
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 remember seeing Eric Cantona play for Manchester United. The way he used to control games was special to watch.
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.
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 come from a family where soccer has always been very present. My uncles, my father and my brother were all players.