Ronaldo de Assis Moreira is called as Ronaldinho means little Ronaldo to distinguish him from the Brazils great soccer player Ronaldo. Ronaldinho is best known football player in the world commonly known as Ronaldinho Gaucho because of his citizenship in the Rio Grande do Sul region of Brazil.
He was born on March 21, 1990 in the southern city of Porto Alegre. Like most of the other Brazilian soccer player he is also from a poor family. Ronaldinho's father Joao da Silva Moreira was a welder or guardian of the Gremio soccer stadium. But he loved sport and played in an amateur club when he wasn't working.
"I still have a video of my father, which I watch before every game I play for Brazil. It gives me strength, makes me determined."
Ronaldinho's elder brother Roberto was also a rising star in the Gremio club. His father realizes that Ronaldinho is also interested in playing football they saw a true champion in Ronaldinho.
From the childhood Ronaldinho started playing futsal and beach football at Brazil. He developed his skills and became a standardized football player. At the age of 13 he made 23 goals against local team and came in front of the people through the media.
He gained the popularity in his childhood only particularly he became a prolific goal-scorer at the under-17 world championship in Egypt. From that Ronaldinho's professional career begins he joined Gremio and played for them for four years from 1998-2001.
On June 26 1999, he made his first international goal against Venezuela and win the Copa America at Brazilian national debut. Up to that date he won 34 caps scoring 13 goals for Brazil. In 2001 he signed a contract for 5 year with PSG and started playing from the beginning of the season.
Brazil win the World Cup in 2002 with the help of Ronaldinho in which he scored 35 meter lob against England in the quarter finals. In 2003 he decided to leave the PSG and failed to qualify for European cups. On 19th July Barcelona invited him to join them for 27 million Euro rejecting Manchester United.
Ronaldinho lead them at the second place during 03/04 seasons in the Spanish first division. With the help of Samuel Eto'o, Deco, Henrik Larsson and Ludovic Giuly they led Barca to win the season 04/05 of Spanish first division. On December 20 2004, he named as best FIFA world player over Shevchenko and Henry.
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