Ronaldinho red shirt and black! They had long dreamed. And see, in Rio de Janeiro, with the ball, they waited for this for several weeks. That evening, Feb. 2, the 40,000 fans of the venerable club Flamengo (the "Fla") does not shun pleasure. Cheers, banners immense, sparklers, firecrackers. "He is ours!" chanted the crowd.
In the stands, hundreds of fans wearing masks bearing the likeness of their idol smiling. Banners of welcome to the "R 10", legatee of the prestigious number 10, worn once, in this same club, with another crack legend Zico. When Ronaldinho gets the ball and starts running, pony tail wind, the stage on fire.
The player thanks to his jocular manner, with a hello or a few military no samba. There was a carnival atmosphere before the hour. Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, aka Ronaldinho, 31 years old soon, is back in Brazil, with great fanfare, after ten seasons with three clubs in Europe: Paris Saint-Germain, FC Barcelona and AC Milan.
In addition, he moved to Rio, the city that best suits his temperament hedonistic, frivolous and outgoing. Also saw one where, Joao, 6 years, the fruit of her union with dancer ephemeral carioca. Is there a footballer you want more? Flamengo addition, two major national clubs were in the running, the Palmeiras of Sao Paulo and especially Grêmio Porto Alegre, where the young team Ronaldinho, said the "Gaucho" - as they call people from the South - had revealed his fabulous talent.
Until the last minute, the agent and the player's elder brother, Sitting, formidable negotiator, was raising the stakes by suggesting at every club he was best placed. "We had confirmed that the case was sealed off," Pestera Chairman of Palmeiras. And that of Grêmio enraged: "We rewrote the contract seven times." But it is the "Fla" highest bidder, who won.
Ronaldinho would be well advised to wait a bit before seeing Porto Alegre, his hometown, where he grew up in a favela. Because there are still furious. Even before the victory at the finish of Flamengo, banners, deployed over an avenue, had warned the player: "If you do not come from love, we do not want you." Since then, a member of the State of Rio Grande do Sul has circulated a text, at the purely symbolic significance, saying Ronaldinho and his brother "undesirables" in Porto Alegre.
Then love? Love the shirt? "It's folklore, hypocrisy, lies a great player," slice a goldsmith in the matter, Leo Rabello, senior officials of Brazilian football. "Love the shirt belongs to mythology since the birth of professionalism in Brazil in 1933," said Professor Ronaldo Helal, University of Rio.
For, the repatriation of Ronaldinho, is primarily a big business. Very big money. The player will earn in salary and derivatives, 700 000 euros per month. Sixty times more than the President of the Republic, Dilma Rousseff. Even the "king" Pele, who was nevertheless greatly enriched in "selling" his name, seems shocked by the greed of his junior: "If he really loved the Grêmio, why has he not played there free? is what I did for a whole season with my club Santos when he was financially very ill.
" But Ronaldinho will yield much more than it will cost. In record ticket sales in advertising contracts, tons of No. 10 jerseys adorned with his name - 70 euros each. In 2007, the player, who played in Milan, had sponsored an advertising campaign financed by a big real estate agent in Rio.
All apartments were sold in a clock tower. The recruitment of Ronaldinho from Flamengo also gives a bit of gloss to a club in search of respectability: his former goalkeeper, Bruno, is charged with murder and two of his attackers are suspected of drug trafficking. The new employers' Gaucho "were still a fear, expressed by half-word several commentators to see it succumb to the delights of the dolce vita carioca.
Friendly and smiling, free electron in life and in the field, this exceptional footballer, twice crowned world's best player in 2004 and 2005, behind a solid reputation reveler who was in Milan, the joy of the paparazzi. Night owl who loved samba, barbeques and strong drink, he went until dawn trips in gallant company.
It is not for the festive Rio we'll throw a stone. Provided that his nocturnal excesses do not affect performance too much on the ground. What I fear all those who already hold a champion in decline, whose dribbling magicians of the past. Attention, "Gaucho"! In Brazil as elsewhere, football fans can burn their idols.
Ronaldo, another great champion returned home in 2009 to don the jersey for Corinthians of Sao Paulo, knows something. Silhouette thickened, puffy face, he faces the disenchantment of those who loved him and welcomed him to the stage with messages like "Out, damned Ronaldo. With your salary and your big fat belly!" Hurt by the insult, Ronaldo announced Monday, February 14, sobs in his voice, he was anticipating his retirement and finally hung up his cleats.
Langellier @ bbc. en Jean-Pierre Langellier Article published in the edition of 17.02.11 
In the stands, hundreds of fans wearing masks bearing the likeness of their idol smiling. Banners of welcome to the "R 10", legatee of the prestigious number 10, worn once, in this same club, with another crack legend Zico. When Ronaldinho gets the ball and starts running, pony tail wind, the stage on fire.
The player thanks to his jocular manner, with a hello or a few military no samba. There was a carnival atmosphere before the hour. Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, aka Ronaldinho, 31 years old soon, is back in Brazil, with great fanfare, after ten seasons with three clubs in Europe: Paris Saint-Germain, FC Barcelona and AC Milan.
In addition, he moved to Rio, the city that best suits his temperament hedonistic, frivolous and outgoing. Also saw one where, Joao, 6 years, the fruit of her union with dancer ephemeral carioca. Is there a footballer you want more? Flamengo addition, two major national clubs were in the running, the Palmeiras of Sao Paulo and especially Grêmio Porto Alegre, where the young team Ronaldinho, said the "Gaucho" - as they call people from the South - had revealed his fabulous talent.
Until the last minute, the agent and the player's elder brother, Sitting, formidable negotiator, was raising the stakes by suggesting at every club he was best placed. "We had confirmed that the case was sealed off," Pestera Chairman of Palmeiras. And that of Grêmio enraged: "We rewrote the contract seven times." But it is the "Fla" highest bidder, who won.
Ronaldinho would be well advised to wait a bit before seeing Porto Alegre, his hometown, where he grew up in a favela. Because there are still furious. Even before the victory at the finish of Flamengo, banners, deployed over an avenue, had warned the player: "If you do not come from love, we do not want you." Since then, a member of the State of Rio Grande do Sul has circulated a text, at the purely symbolic significance, saying Ronaldinho and his brother "undesirables" in Porto Alegre.
Then love? Love the shirt? "It's folklore, hypocrisy, lies a great player," slice a goldsmith in the matter, Leo Rabello, senior officials of Brazilian football. "Love the shirt belongs to mythology since the birth of professionalism in Brazil in 1933," said Professor Ronaldo Helal, University of Rio.
For, the repatriation of Ronaldinho, is primarily a big business. Very big money. The player will earn in salary and derivatives, 700 000 euros per month. Sixty times more than the President of the Republic, Dilma Rousseff. Even the "king" Pele, who was nevertheless greatly enriched in "selling" his name, seems shocked by the greed of his junior: "If he really loved the Grêmio, why has he not played there free? is what I did for a whole season with my club Santos when he was financially very ill.
" But Ronaldinho will yield much more than it will cost. In record ticket sales in advertising contracts, tons of No. 10 jerseys adorned with his name - 70 euros each. In 2007, the player, who played in Milan, had sponsored an advertising campaign financed by a big real estate agent in Rio.
All apartments were sold in a clock tower. The recruitment of Ronaldinho from Flamengo also gives a bit of gloss to a club in search of respectability: his former goalkeeper, Bruno, is charged with murder and two of his attackers are suspected of drug trafficking. The new employers' Gaucho "were still a fear, expressed by half-word several commentators to see it succumb to the delights of the dolce vita carioca.
Friendly and smiling, free electron in life and in the field, this exceptional footballer, twice crowned world's best player in 2004 and 2005, behind a solid reputation reveler who was in Milan, the joy of the paparazzi. Night owl who loved samba, barbeques and strong drink, he went until dawn trips in gallant company.
It is not for the festive Rio we'll throw a stone. Provided that his nocturnal excesses do not affect performance too much on the ground. What I fear all those who already hold a champion in decline, whose dribbling magicians of the past. Attention, "Gaucho"! In Brazil as elsewhere, football fans can burn their idols.
Ronaldo, another great champion returned home in 2009 to don the jersey for Corinthians of Sao Paulo, knows something. Silhouette thickened, puffy face, he faces the disenchantment of those who loved him and welcomed him to the stage with messages like "Out, damned Ronaldo. With your salary and your big fat belly!" Hurt by the insult, Ronaldo announced Monday, February 14, sobs in his voice, he was anticipating his retirement and finally hung up his cleats.
Langellier @ bbc. en Jean-Pierre Langellier Article published in the edition of 17.02.11
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