countless legal problems half a year in prison and a bank account holding less than $7 sadly Ronald Dano's golden retirement has instead been a total train wreck he was worth $90 million when he retired in 2015 although despite having a salary of nearly 300K per week ronaldino showed through a Coca-Cola sponsorship he was absolutely atrocious at handling his money Koke paid him 750k per year under one condition that Walston public had only drink their beverage well just a couple of months after signing the deal ronaldino instead promoted Coke's biggest competitor the Coca-Cola Ambassador shot himself in the foot when he rocked up to a press conference sipping on a can of Pepsi as a result Coke dropped him and stated the sponsorship had become embarrassing assisted by Ronaldinho's poor performances on the pitch as he'd become more interested in wild parties in one example he was scheduled to play against man united but instead the night before partied in a bar until 3:00 a. m. a Barcelona board member added ronaldino plays Bongos until 2: in the morning every night everyone knows we have a discipline problem ronaldino is getting older partying all the time how do we stop it well stopping Ronaldinho's partying was basically impossible as he even negotiated a nightclub Clause into one of his cont contracts allowing him to party at least two nights per week incredibly he wound up breaking the contract as two nights of partying simply wasn't enough justifying his actions by stating a football player has to have a normal life as a person and as a sportsman but according to his teammate Jerome looy this lifestyle was seriously hurting his skills ronaldino didn't train any day of the week and would just turn up on a Friday for the game on Saturday I think he was trying to follow in the steps of Roy Mario who would also go out every night but he didn't have the same success without a consistent training regiment ronaldino began to experience constant injuries beginning in March 2008 he was off the field for one full year missing 30 different games coming from four different injuries in the meantime ronaldino started gaining weight for which he was clowned on by the media one article wrote over the past year Ronald hasn't looked like the player who led Barcelona to two straight League titles another article mentioned the former best player in the universe has already become an increasingly distant memory for the Brazilian national team and true or not gets frequently described as past it without much debate in 2002 Ronaldinho helped carry Brazil to a World Cup win but by 2010 he wasn't even chosen to play on the team at all understandably Ronald Ino wasn't happy believing he was now better than ever stating I am back now to how I was in fact I think I'm even stronger now everything seems easier now I want to play in a further two World Cups his harsh World Cup rejection forced Ronaldinho to get back into shape a foreign post from 2012 titled ronaldino goes back to 2004/05 weight explained apparently he's now gone back to his ideal weight of 80 kilos on top of this a gold do article proclaimed Ronaldinho is officially back among the world's best although as you might expect this didn't last long throughout 2013 Ronaldinho missed another 24 games resulting from two separate injuries he therefore again wasn't selected for Brazil's 2014 World Cup team and by 2015 at the age of 35 Ronaldinho's career was pretty much finished he signed an 18-month contract with flu men although after failing to score in nine games and being booed by his own fans during a league game Ronaldinho's contract was terminated after only 2 months the club publicly announced we were straight with him and told him it wouldn't work for us so we decided releasing him was the right thing to do we are somewhat frustrated when he arrived we expected he could do for us what he did for so many other clubs that's what you think when you sign a player he didn't do well in Mexico but we took our chances by bringing him back to to Rio thinking he would do well again ronaldino clearly didn't but he now had $90 million to retire very comfortably he'd hire his brother Roberto to be his manager who confirmed Ronaldinho's retirement stating he has stopped it is ended let's do something pretty big and nice after the Russia World Cup where ronaldino was spotted looking extremely happy behind the scenes however his life had already begun to fall apart Ronaldinho used his earnings to purchase 57 properties one of which being a Lakehouse in the Riverside City of Porto alra from the house he built a waren dock without realizing it was totally illegal as a result he was fined 1.
7 million us although ronaldino refused to pay it was then revealed he also owed a further $2 million in unpaid property taxes and as a result ronaldino has had 57 prop he seized and his Brazilian and Spanish passports confiscated over unpaid taxes and fines Ronaldinho haggled the fishing fine down to 1. 5 million But ultimately still failed to pay leading the Brazilian government to permanently take he and his brother's passports now this was extra inconvenient as they wanted to take a holiday down at Paraguay so they devised a genius plan create a fake Paraguay passport for one of Brazil's most famous people known for playing on the Brazilian national team as he tried to enter Paraguay border a protection obviously noticed him instantly placing Ronaldinho in jail awaiting trial imagine not only being one of the most famous footballers in the world but also one of the most unique looking ones and trying to use a fake passport in South America Bravo Ronnie but wait it still gets Dumber it is unclear why the former footballer entered Paraguay using the passport considering Brazilians can enter the neighboring country using their national ID card basically Ronaldinho could have gone to Paraguay without using a passport at all to had a cherry on top of the cake ronaldino claimed he didn't know the passport was fake and believed he had been given his paraguayan passport as a gift assuming it was an honorary type document of no real value and gave it to an official without thinking when he reached Paraguay because it was the first thing he got out of his bag he was therefore even roasted by his own lawyer ronaldino wasn't aware that he was committing a crime because he didn't know they were fake documents he's stupid but the court didn't buy it for a second and ronaldino was jailed for almost half a year whilst inside the prison hosted a footall tournament leading teams across the prison to rail with one another over which would have ronaldino on their team he'd win the final game by scoring 11 goals eventually leading a judge to conclude there is no indication that he has any personal characteristics or criminal behavior that would put Society at risk and Ronaldinho was therefore released from prison with a $200,000 fine however he had no hope of paying this in fact the reason he and his brother initially had their passport seized was because an investigation into their bank accounts revealed a balance of just 24.
