in 1997 Brazil's under-17 national team would win the World Cup one of the players will rise above all as his nickname given to him when he played for gram News Academy as he was the shortest on the team would become notorious it was known as Ronaldinho the next year it will be called up to Grandma's main squad getting his debut in a couple Libertadores match against posh school his time at gram you will go by smoothly being its main highlight a game in which Ronaldinho would go up against Brazil's national team legend and eventually coach
Dunga Ronaldinho will embarrass him twice with a stupendous dribble and then with a magic flick these clips would be shown all across Brazil this among other incredible displays would lead Rinaldi to get called up for Brazil's main squad his first tournament would be the 1999 cap America this massive generation of Brazilian talent surely didn't disappoint as they brought the trophy own but Rinaldi who will truly shine just one week after as Brazil qualified for the Confederations Cup which they'd win as rinaldin collected the top scorer and best player Awards these events will push him into
a move to PSG after getting 18 goals in 25 games in the previous season for Graham you at PSG he would get his first taste of European football and of playing with some of its being names Anelka jayjay Okocha and Mauricio Pasha Tino among others he would have a tough time on his first season coming off the bench most times as he still managed to rack up some goals despite getting into a confrontation with a coach over whether or not he was focused on his game since this was the coach's conviction that he was too
caught up in the city's nightlife regardless of what troubles he was going to at club level he had assured himself as a first-team player from Brazil going into the summer focused as he got his first template World Cup glory Brazil moved on getting to the quarterfinals when they would start the game by conceding a goal that would put England in front Ronaldinho would step up creating the first goal of the match with an incredible run and an eventual assist for evolve to tie the match into an old dose of his talents it would score 40-yard
free-kick to win the match for Brazil two more matches were played and as Brazil got a of Germany they will become World Cup winners Ronaldinho was just 22 and had already lifted the three most significant international trophies truly the stuff of legends still it would come for a second season at PSG which would prove itself inferior to the first even if Rinaldi managed to score the league's goal of the season and even a standing ovation in the cup final which they lost since PSG will not manage to qualify for European football Rinaldi no with a
side to move away in the summer Brazil would massively disappoint being knocked out of the Confederations Cup in the group stage back at club level Barcelona would win the race for his signing as their president and promised to sign one of Beckham Henry and Ronald Engel and as the other two were unavailable it was forced what with all other clubs interested which led to the signing of rinaldin for 30 million euros at Barcelona is success was immediate Vasil the world of football as it seemed to have something special to show every time he touched the
ball and those are not my words but actually Frank Rijkaard after Ronaldinho's review after rinaldin picked up an injury Barcelona would drop to 11th place in the league this slump would prove insignificant next to Ronaldinho's impact on a team as he would come back to help the team secure a second place finish and a win at the bernabéu which haven't happened in seven years javi was credit this moment as the start of the Barcelona rise rinaldin wouldn't be called up to the Copa America as the coach decided to rest the team and use an experimental
reserve team that would still go on to win the tournament which goes to show how strong Brazil were at the start of the century the next season would have a very start in the last and as the year came to an end Rinaldi would be named FIFA Player of the Year once again he will receive massive praise from his teammates this time Puyol would credit him with bringing back smiles to the camp now after the disappointing seasons his arrival had followed regardless that same year they'd be knocked out of the Champions League by Chelsea this
wouldn't be enough to stop Rinaldi no from sharing his magic with a world as it's Korver of Barcelona's goals including his famous toe poke goal from outside the box domestically it out Barcelona finally win La Liga again which hadn't happened in six despite not participating in the previous cop Amerika it we called up for the Confederations Cup where it scored three goals becoming the all-time top scorer of the tournament in getting the finals man-of-the-match award once again it maintained his form as the season started earning himself a second consecutive little Player of the Year award
and even France football's Ballon d'Or this next season will be one of his best Ronaldinho was truly at its peak in El clásico it would score two beautiful goals to which the opposition fans had no other choice but to stand up in a plot this had only happened once in history and to no other then da guar mondo Maradona in the Champions League if prove himself as Barcelona star player being Eveleigh linked to its victory in a knockout stages of the tournament eventually beating Arsenal in the finals to give Ronaldinho is a weighted Champions League
trophy his performances would hurt him his third consecutive wife a player of the season and domestically they would lock the title once again being reeled by a staggering 12 points the 2006 World Cup would follow and in what can only be described as a team who had settled for their previous achievements Brazil would get knocked out by friends in a match where they only managed to get a single shot on targets to aggravate the situation rinaldin would join Adriano in a quest to prove their critics right as they would throw a gigantic party days after
disappointing their nation would not be kind to Ronaldinho as they ended up destroying one of his statues this would represent a massive turning point in Ronaldinho's career the men seem to have won it all and lost his hunger for competitiveness living out the rest of his career while only displaying glimpses of his brilliance but never achieving where he had previously done one of these glimpses would be a brilliant bicycle kick goal against Villarreal regardless the season would end with Barcelona only managing second place in La Liga and choking the Club World Cup final in what
will be Renauld in his first season at Spain with no trophies to make matters worse the next season will be plagued by injuries being by far his worst and it tearfully leave for AC Milan as he told the fence his time at Barcelona had been best time of his life it would find AC Milan in the process of rebuilding their team as the players who were left from their start of the century success were adding towards retirement such as Maldini Nesta Gattuso Inzaghi and Shevchenko regardless this team would still include lots of players in good
form such as Kaka Beckham Alessandro Pato and Andrea Pirlo who despite his age still had a long career ahead of him this wouldn't be enough to propel Rinaldi know to find his form once again as he still struggled with fitness and his results would disappoint despite the few moments where his talent shined through his second season in Italy would be his best there as the coach moved him to a new role on the wing it would manage to finish as top assist maker in the Syria even getting a net streak midway in the season which
followed an aerobic performance against Juventus in which he scored twice leading some to believe his form was back despite this AC Milan would finished earth in the summer it would not be called up to the World Cup to this day many Brazilians feel like it was due to some animosity between em and dongha who was the Brazilian coach at the time his last season would see new signing Abramovich we've covered on this series already and who bingo coming to the team but Ronaldinho decided to retire from European football midway through the season leaving AC Milan
for Flamengo which would lead the fans of his childhood club grêmio to resent him for a long time in his first and single season there it would only win some regional trophies and would eventually leave for another Brazilian club this time athletic my NATO as Fleming who failed to be able to pay him his salary for four months his time there will be far more successful as the club finished second in his first year and he won the player of the season award the second season will be even better as he led the club to
their first ever copa de Libertad worth being involved in eleven goals throughout the tournament as they managed their way through two consecutive to nil comebacks in both the semi-final and final for this youth win South American Player of the Year it played third season there which would be most notable for winning hey Copa Sudamericana before retiring it would play for two more clubs for very short periods of time first one season at the mexican league before coming back to brazil where this time he would play for Fluminense where he failed to impress slowly fading being
dropped from the team which would make it clear this would lead to his official retirement Rinaldi who is probably the most widely admired player of all time you rarely hear a single piece of criticism being delivered this way despite this is also a great example that talent isn't enough in the battle to becoming the greatest of all time dancing through defenses as if they were random kids from his hometown fearlessly taking risks and delivering magic to the audience Ronaldinho is closer to being a myth a part of football itself than an actual living breathing player
the name has preceded the human in what has become the symbol of a generation using football to get some magic into their lives getting into our ranking system it will first be judged on his finishing which was wildly impressive especially from set-pieces despite this he never focused his game on this aspect so he will fall short of the perfect score getting a nine out of ten then we should get into his playmaking where he's surely shined but once again fell short of becoming known as one of the greatest so he gets another nine out of
ten when it comes to dribbling there's absolutely no arguing I thought a single person will think otherwise he should get a ten out of ten in terms of speed and physicality it was very fast but he was constantly having injury problems in he surely wasn't the strongest of players which should get him a six out of ten finally his mentality arguably the worst part of his game he had no determination no professionalism but he did have a childlike fearlessness to him that made him dangerous for this it will get a four out of ten the
second part will focus on his legacy being its first attribute consistency which gets him a 9 out of 10 as he always played magnificently regardless of the stage despite this it did drop off significantly in the second part of his career the second attribute is flair which is simply the greatest of all time in his attributes it was brilliant every touch was pure art and he gets another ten out of ten getting into his magnificent trophy cabinets he won every major trophy possible in his career even if he only won most of them once but
the University is off the charts and he gets another ten out of ten this leads us to another of his worst traits when it comes to longevity he massively disappointed only staying at the top of European football for seven seasons in which he failed to perform up to standard in about F as he seemed to lose his anger he gets a three out of ten finally the icon factor and I will put this one simply every single kid wanted to be Ronald Engle I had his shirt I begged my parents for his cleats and of
all that had his name on it I spent days on my back yard trying to learn out drivel like him is in the highest tier of iconic and he gets a ten out of ten this means that he will become our new number one ranked player with a total of 80 out of a hundred which proves how much he really does disappoint in certain aspects and it is a very low score for someone who just got four perfect scores in four different rates regardless ears how he ranks up next to the other players we've judged
so this is it the Ronaldinho episode I've been really looking forward for this one I think I did a really good job I managed to keep it shorter I've been really trying to do that the thumbnail looks pretty great I really like what I did with the thumbnail I hope you enjoyed everything as much as I did and that she'll be here for the next episode see you next time you
