Signature move: Elastico/Flip Flap
Full name: Ronaldo de Assis Moreira Date of birth: 21 March 1980
Place of birth: Porto Alegre, Brazil
Height: 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position: Forward / Winger
Current club: Flamengo
Number: 80
Ronaldinho
Ronaldinho was and maybe still is one of the best football players in the world. When you think of football tricks Ronaldinho is the first player that comes up in your mind. He has great skills and did some awesome tricks throughout his career, especially during his time at Barcelona when he was probably the best player in the world.
Biography of Ronaldinho
Ronaldinho´s youth
Ronaldinho was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Ronaldinho started playing futsal as a young child. At age 7 he joined Gremio one of the major teams in Brazil. He scored 21 goals in 44 matches for Gremio. In 2001 Ronaldinho signed at French club PSG where he would stay until 2003. In 2003 many clubs were interested in Ronaldinho, who had just won the world up in 2002 with Brazil and scored a famous free-kick goal against England. It was FC Barcelona who signed Ronaldinho for 27,5 million euro.Barcelona
Ronaldinho scored his first goal for Barcelona in a match against AC Milan on 30 July 2003. At his first season with Barcelona Ronaldinho didn't win any prices but this would change soon. In his second season Barcelona with the help of Ronaldinho won the Spanish Championship and Ronaldinho was named FIFA World Player of the Year 2004. In the following 2005-2006 season Barcelona won La Liga again and Ronaldinho was awarded FIFA World Player of the Year 2005. In the same season Barcelona won the UEFA Champions League by beating Arsenal in the final with 2-1. After this year Ronaldinho didn't win anymore prices with Barcelona and he was going to leave Barcelona at the end of the 2007-2008 season. At Barcelona Ronaldinho had the best period of his career. He scored 70 goals in 145 appearences for Barcelona and was widely seen as the best player of the world at that time. During his stay at Barcelona he won La Liga twice. He also won the UEFA Champions League in 2005-2006 by beating Arsenal in the final.AC Milan
In July 2008 Ronaldinho signed at AC Milan in Italy. Ronaldinho scored his first goal for Milan in a 1-0 victory against rival Internazionale. Ronaldinho was still a great player at AC Milan but never got his level back of his Barcelona period. Ronaldinho has done amazing tricks throughout his career and remains one of the best players of the last decade.Flamengo
On 11 January 2011 Ronaldinho signs a contract with Flamengo and returns back to Brazil. With his come back to Brazil he hopes to have a greater chance to play the World Cup 2014 in Brazil.
Diego Armando Maradona was born on 30 Ocotber 1960 in Lanus Argentina. At age 10 while playing at his neighborhood club Estrella Roja he was scouted for Argentinos Juniors. He played in the youth of Argentinos and made his debut for the first team at age 15 He played 5 years for Argentinos after he went to Boca Juniors in 1981. He had impressive dribbles and scored amazing goals, he won the primera divison with Boca Juniors that year and earned a transfer to European topclub FC Barcelona.
Maradona signs for Napoli for a transfer record of £6.9m it will be the best period of Maradona. At Napoli Maradona leads the club to its first championship in the Serie A in 1986/1987 and repeats this at 1989/1990. In 1989 Napoli wins the UEFA Cup Maradona scores a goal in the 2-1 vicotry against VfB Stuttgart.
At the 1986 Fifa World Cup Argentina gets World Champion. Maradona had a great influence in the victory scoring 5 goals and making 5 assists. One of the most famous matches is against England in the quarter final. Six minutes into the second half with a score of 0-0 Maradona gets the ball, he passes some defenders and gives a pass to one of his teammates an England defender tries to clear the ball but miscues and the ball gets high into the penalty area. Then Maradona comes and touches the ball with his left hand over goalkeeper Peter Shilton, the ball gets into the goal and the referee allows the goal. After the match Maradona said it was''The hand of god''. Four minutes after this goal Maradona scores another goal, this time after an amazing dribble passing five defenders. In 2002 the goal was voted `Goal of the Century´. Argentina won with 2-1 against England and reached the semi-finals in which they defeated Belgium with 2-0 and both goals from Maradona. Argentina won the final of the tournament against West Germany with 3-2. Maradona won the Golden Ball for best player of the tournament.
After the 1990 Fifa World Cup in which Argentina lost the final against West Germany maradona was banned for 15 months for failing a drug test for cocaine. Maradona left Napoli in 1992 and joined Sevilla in 1993 he left Sevilla already and joined Newell's Old Boys in Argentina. At the 1994 Fifa World Cup Maradona was back for a moment by scoring a goal against Greece in the group stage. After the match he was sent home for failing a drug test. In 1995 Maradona returned to Boca Juniors for the last 2 years of his career.
After the 1994 World Cup Ronaldo signed at PSV Eindhoven from The Netherlands. He scored 54 goals in 57 appearences won the Dutch Cup in 1996 and became Eredivisie top scorer in 1995. In 1996 Ronaldo made the tranfer to FC Barcelona where he did well by scoring 47 goals in 49 appearences. Barcelona won the UEFA Cup Winners´Cup, Copa del Rey and Supercopa de España that year. Ronaldo became topscorer of the Spanish league with 34 goals and became FIFA World Player of the Year 1996. He was the youngest player ever to win the Fifa World Player of the Year with age 20. After just one year at Barcelona Ronaldo left and signed at Inter Milan for a world record fee of £19 Million. At his first season at Inter he scored 25 goals and was again awarded Fifa World Player of the Year.
In 2002 Ronaldo was just recovered from a knee injury so he could play at the World Cup 2002 in South Korea and Japan. Ronaldo scored 8 goals and won the tournament with Brazil by a 2-0 win in the Final against Germany in which he scored both goals. Ronaldo won the Golden Shoe that tournament and was runner-up for the Golden Ball.
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