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For other people with the name, see Ronaldinho (given name).

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is de Assis and the second or paternal family name is Moreira.

Ronaldinho

Ronaldinho in 2019

Personal information

Full name

\nRonaldo de Assis Moreira^[1]

Date of birth

\n21 March 1980 (age 44)^[1]

Place of birth

\nPorto Alegre, Brazil

Height

\n1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)^[1]

Position(s)

\nAttacking midfielder, left winger

Youth career

1987\u20131998

\nGr\u00eamio

Senior career\"

Years

\nTeam

\nApps

\n(Gls)

1998\u20132001

\nGr\u00eamio

\n89

\n(47)

2001\u20132003

\nParis Saint-Germain

\n55

\n(17)

2003\u20132008

\nBarcelona

\n145

\n(70)

2008\u20132011

\nAC Milan

\n76

\n(20)

2011\u20132012

\nFlamengo

\n56

\n(23)

2012\u20132014

\nAtl\u00e9tico Mineiro

\n58

\n(20)

2014\u20132015

\nQuer\u00e9taro

\n25

\n(8)

2015

\nFluminense

\n7

\n(0)

Total

\n511

\n(205)

International career

1997

\nBrazil U17

\n13

\n(3)

1998\u20131999

\nBrazil U20

\n17

\n(8)

1999\u20132000

\nBrazil U23

\n19

\n(15)

2008

\nBrazil Olympic (O.P.)

\n8

\n(3)

1999\u20132013

\nBrazil

\n97

\n(33)

Medal record

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Men's football\n
\n
Representing $\"\"$ Brazil\n
FIFA World Cup\n
Winner	2002 Korea/Japan	\n
FIFA Confederations Cup\n
Winner	2005 Germany	\n
Runner-up	1999 Mexico	\n
Copa Am\u00e9rica\n
Winner	1999 Paraguay	\n
Olympic Games\n
$\"Bronze$	2008 Beijing	Team\n
CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament\n
Winner	2000 Brazil	\n
South American U-20 Championship\n
$\"Third$	1999 Argentina	\n
FIFA U-17 World Cup\n
Winner	1997 Egypt	\n
South American U-17 Championship\n
Winner	1997 Paraguay	\n

\n\"Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ronaldo de Assis Moreira (born 21 March 1980), commonly known as Ronaldinho Ga\u00facho (Brazilian Portuguese pronunciation: [\u0281onaw\u02c8d\u0292\u0129\u0272u \u0261a\u02c8u\u0283u]) or simply Ronaldinho,^{[note 1]} is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or left winger. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, he won two FIFA World Player of the Year awards and a Ballon d'Or. He is the only player ever to have won a World Cup, a Copa Am\u00e9rica, a Confederations Cup, a Champions League, a Copa Libertadores and a Ballon d'Or.^[4] A global icon of the sport, Ronaldinho was renowned for his dribbling abilities, free-kick accuracy, his use of tricks, feints, no-look passes, and overhead kicks, as well as his ability to score and create goals. During his career he was one of the most valuable footballers in the world.^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8] He is known by the nickname \"O Bruxo\" ('The Wizard').^[9]^[10]\n

Ronaldinho made his career debut for Gr\u00eamio, in 1998. Aged 20, he moved to Paris Saint-Germain in France, where he won the UEFA Intertoto Cup, before signing for Barcelona in 2003. In his second season with Barcelona, he won his first FIFA World Player of the Year award as Barcelona won the 2004\u201305 La Liga title. The season that followed is considered one of the best in his career as he was integral in Barcelona winning the 2005\u201306 UEFA Champions League, their first in fourteen years, and another La Liga title, giving Ronaldinho his first career double, receiving the 2005 Ballon d'Or, and his second FIFA World Player of the Year in the process. After scoring two solo goals in the first 2005\u201306 El Cl\u00e1sico, Ronaldinho became the second Barcelona player, after Diego Maradona in 1983, to receive a standing ovation from Real Madrid fans at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u. Due to these successes, Ronaldinho is widely credited with changing Barcelona's history.^[11]\n

Following a second-place La Liga finish to Real Madrid in the 2006\u201307 season and an injury-plagued 2007\u201308 season, Ronaldinho suffered a decline in his performances\u2014due to a decrease in dedication and focus towards football\u2014and departed Barcelona to join AC Milan, where he won the 2010\u201311 Serie A. He returned to Brazil to play for Flamengo in 2011 and Atl\u00e9tico Mineiro a year later where he won the 2013 Copa Libertadores, before moving to Mexico to play for Quer\u00e9taro and then back to Brazil to play for Fluminense in 2015. Ronaldinho accumulated numerous other individual awards in his career: he was included in the UEFA Team of the Year and the FIFA World XI three times each, and was named UEFA Club Footballer of the Year for the 2005\u201306 season and South American Footballer of the Year in 2013; in 2004, he was named by Pel\u00e9 in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players. In 2009, he was voted World Player of the Decade 2000s, ahead of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.^[12]\n

In his international career with Brazil, Ronaldinho earned 97 caps, scored 33 goals, and represented them in two FIFA World Cups. After debuting with the Sele\u00e7\u00e3o by winning the 1999 Copa Am\u00e9rica, he was an integral player in the 2002 FIFA World Cup winning team, positioned alongside Ronaldo and Rivaldo in an attacking trio, and was named in the FIFA World Cup All-Star Team. He captained his team to the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup title and was named man of the match in the final. He also captained the Brazil Olympic team to a bronze medal in men's football at the 2008 Summer Olympics.\n

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Club\n	Season\n	League\n	Regional league\n	Cup\n	Continental\n	Other\n	Total\n
Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals\n
Gr\u00eamio^[240]^[241]\n	1998\n	Brasileir\u00e3o\n	14	1	7^[a]	2	2^[b]	0	15^[c]	3	\u2014	38	6\n
1999\n	Brasileir\u00e3o\n	17	4	17^[a]	15	3^[b]	0	4^[d]	2	6^[e]	1	47	22\n
2000\n	Brasileir\u00e3o\n	21	14	13^[a]	11	3^[b]	3	\u2014	\u2014	37	28\n
2001\n	Brasileir\u00e3o\n	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	3^[f]	2	3	2\n
Total\n	52	19	37	28	8	3	19	5	9	3	125	58\n
Paris Saint-Germain^[242]\n	2001\u201302\n	Ligue 1\n	28	9	\u2014	6^[g]	2	6^[h]	2	\u2014	40	13\n
2002\u201303\n	Ligue 1\n	27	8	\u2014	6^[i]	3	4^[h]	1	\u2014	37	12\n
Total\n	55	17	\u2014	12	5	10	3	\u2014	77	25\n
Barcelona^[240]^[242]\n	2003\u201304\n	La Liga\n	32	15	\u2014	6^[j]	3	7^[h]	4	\u2014	45	22\n
2004\u201305\n	La Liga\n	35	9	\u2014	\u2014	7^[k]	4	\u2014	42	13\n
2005\u201306\n	La Liga\n	29	17	\u2014	2^[j]	1	12^[k]	7	2^[l]	1	45	26\n
2006\u201307\n	La Liga\n	32	21	\u2014	4^[j]	0	8^[k]	2	5^[m]	1	49	24\n
2007\u201308\n	La Liga\n	17	8	\u2014	1^[j]	0	8^[k]	1	\u2014	26	9\n
Total\n	145	70	\u2014	13	4	42	18	7	2	207	94\n
AC Milan^[240]^[242]\n	2008\u201309\n	Serie A\n	29	8	\u2014	1^[n]	0	6^[h]	2	\u2014	36	10\n
2009\u201310\n	Serie A\n	36	12	\u2014	\u2014	7^[k]	3	\u2014	43	15\n
2010\u201311\n	Serie A\n	11	0	\u2014	\u2014	5^[k]	1	\u2014	16	1\n
Total\n	76	20	\u2014	1	0	18	6	\u2014	95	26\n
Flamengo^[242]^[243]\n	2011\n	Brasileir\u00e3o\n	31	14	13^[o]	4	5^[b]	1	3^[p]	2	\u2014	52	21\n
2012\n	Brasileir\u00e3o\n	2	1	10^[o]	4	\u2014	8^[q]	2	\u2014	20	7\n
Total\n	33	15	23	8	5	1	11	4	\u2014	72	28\n
Atl\u00e9tico Mineiro^[242]^[243]\n	2012\n	Brasileir\u00e3o\n	32	9	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	32	9\n
2013\n	Brasileir\u00e3o\n	14	7	6^[r]	4	2^[b]	0	14^[q]	4	2^[s]	2	38	17\n
2014\n	Brasileir\u00e3o\n	2	0	4^[r]	0	\u2014	7^[q]	1	2^[t]	0	15	1\n
Total\n	48	16	10	4	2	0	21	5	4	2	85	27\n
Quer\u00e9taro^[242]\n	2014\u201315\n	Liga MX\n	25	8	\u2014	4^[u]	0	\u2014	\u2014	29	8\n
Fluminense^[242]\n	2015\n	Brasileir\u00e3o\n	7	0	\u2014	2^[b]	0	\u2014	\u2014	9	0\n
Career total\n	441	165	70	40	47	13	121	41	20	7	699	266\n

No.\n	Cap\n	Date\n	Venue\n	Opponent\n	Score\n	Result\n	Competition\n	Ref.\n
1\n	2	30 June 1999	Est\u00e1dio 3 de Febrero, Ciudad del Este, Paraguay	$\"\"$ Venezuela	5\u20130	5\u20130	1999 Copa Am\u00e9rica	^[253]\n
2\n	6	24 July 1999	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico	$\"\"$ Germany	2\u20130	4\u20130	1999 FIFA Confederations Cup\n	^[253]\n
3\n	7	28 July 1999\n	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico	$\"\"$ United States	1\u20130	1\u20130\n	1999 FIFA Confederations Cup\n	^[253]\n
4\n	8	30 July 1999\n	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico	$\"\"$ New Zealand	2\u20130	2\u20130\n	1999 FIFA Confederations Cup\n	^[253]\n
5\n	9	1 August 1999\n	Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico	$\"\"$ Saudi Arabia	2\u20130	8\u20132\n	1999 FIFA Confederations Cup\n	^[253]\n
6\n	6\u20132\n
7\n	8\u20132\n
8\n	14	23 February 2000	Rajamangala Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand	$\"\"$ Thailand	3\u20130	7\u20130	2000 King's Cup	^[254]\n
9\n	19	3 March 2001	Rose Bowl Stadium, Pasadena, United States	$\"\"$ United States	1\u20130	2\u20131\n	Friendly\n	^[254]\n
10\n	24	17 April 2002	Est\u00e1dio da Luz, Lisbon, Portugal	$\"\"$ Portugal	1\u20131	1\u20131\n	Friendly	^[255]\n
11\n	27	8 June 2002	Jeju World Cup Stadium, Seogwipo, South Korea	$\"\"$ China	3\u20130	4\u20130	2002 FIFA World Cup\n	^[255]\n
12\n	29	21 June 2002	Shizuoka Stadium, Shizuoka, Japan	$\"\"$ England	2\u20131	2\u20131\n	2002 FIFA World Cup\n	^[255]\n
13\n	32	20 November 2002	Seoul World Cup Stadium, Seoul, South Korea	$\"\"$ South Korea	3\u20132	3\u20132	Friendly\n	^[255]\n
14\n	34	29 March 2003	Est\u00e1dio das Antas, Porto, Portugal	$\"\"$ Portugal	1\u20131	1\u20132\n	Friendly\n	^[255]\n
15\n	40	10 September 2003	Vivald\u00e3o, Manaus, Brazil	$\"\"$ Ecuador	1-0	1\u20130	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification\n	^[255]\n
16\n	43	28 April 2004	Ferenc Pusk\u00e1s Stadium, Budapest, Hungary	$\"\"$ Hungary	4\u20131	4\u20131	Friendly	^[256]\n
17\n	45	18 August 2004	Stade Sylvio Cator, Port-au-Prince, Haiti	$\"\"$ Haiti	2\u20130	6\u20130\n	Friendly\n	^[256]\n
18\n	4\u20130\n
19\n	5\u20130\n
20\n	46	5 September 2004	Est\u00e1dio do Morumbi, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil	$\"\"$ Bolivia	2\u20130	3\u20131	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification\n	^[256]\n
21\n	47	8 September 2004	Olympiastadion, Berlin, Germany	$\"\"$ Germany	1\u20131	1\u20131	Friendly\n	^[256]\n
22\n	51	9 February 2005	Hong Kong Stadium, So Kon Po, Hong Kong	$\"\"$ Hong Kong	4\u20130	7\u20131\n	2005 Lunar New Year Cup\n	^[256]\n
23\n	54	5 June 2005	Est\u00e1dio Beira-Rio, Porto Alegre, Brazil	$\"\"$ Paraguay	1\u20130	4\u20131	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification\n	^[256]\n
24\n	2\u20130\n
25\n	58	22 June 2005	RheinEnergieStadion, Cologne, Germany	$\"\"$ Japan	2\u20131	2\u20132	2005 FIFA Confederations Cup\n	^[256]\n
26\n	59	25 June 2005	Frankenstadion, Nuremberg, Germany	$\"\"$ Germany	2\u20131	3\u20132\n	2005 FIFA Confederations Cup\n	^[256]\n
27\n	60	29 June 2005	Waldstadion, Frankfurt, Germany	$\"\"$ Argentina	3\u20130	4\u20131	2005 FIFA Confederations Cup\n	^[256]\n
28\n	72	24 March 2007	Ullevi, Gothenburg, Sweden	$\"\"$ Chile	1\u20130	4\u20130	Friendly	^[257]\n
29\n	3\u20130\n
30\n	76	22 August 2007	Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier, France	$\"\"$ Algeria	2\u20130	2\u20130\n	Friendly\n	^[257]\n
31\n	77	9 September 2007	Soldier Field, Chicago, United States	$\"\"$ United States	3\u20132	4\u20132\n	Friendly\n	^[257]\n
32\n	80	17 October 2007	Est\u00e1dio do Maracan\u00e3, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	$\"\"$ Ecuador	2\u20130	5\u20130	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification\n	^[257]\n
33\n	93	11 October 2011	Estadio Corona, Torre\u00f3n, Mexico	$\"\"$ Mexico	1\u20131	2\u20131	Friendly	^[258]\n

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Early life

Club career

Gr\u00eamio

Paris Saint-Germain

2001\u201302 season

2002\u201303 season

Barcelona

2003\u201304 season

2004\u201305 season

2005\u201306 season

2006\u201307 season

2007\u201308 season

AC Milan

2008\u201309 season

2009\u201310 season

2010\u201311 season

Flamengo

Atl\u00e9tico Mineiro

Quer\u00e9taro

Fluminense

Futsal in India

Retirement

International career

Youth teams

Early success

2002 World Cup glory

2005 Confederations Cup title

2006 World Cup

2008 Olympic medal

2010 and 2014 World Cup absence

Player profile

Style of play

Reception

Outside football

Ronaldinho Ga\u00facho (comic strip)

Legal troubles

Personal life

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

See also

References

External links

Ronaldinho

Talks

11 January, 2011