The Tragic Tale of Ronaldinho 

i am Brazilian, most of the things you said are on point, for young kids from the favelas football is the only way they have to make it out the hood and growing up in poverty, financial literacy isn't a priority, that's why most brazilian players have a bad time after their careers, sometimes even when they still play, they can't manage their own income, overspend on parties, friends that don't have any consideration for them, women and booze, when they go to europe and get high wages it's all over for them, i live in the UK and every time i tell someone that i am Brazilian "RONALDINHO" is the first thing i hear (before bunda 😂😂) but unfortunately bad decisions are the only reason the Brazilian National Team isn't the best anymore, the day we see a Brazilian with CR7 work ethic and lack of injuries it's over.

Ronaldinho being on the face of Fifa 06 with Rooney was iconic

He definitely got the most cultural impact of any player this century during his prime

Ronaldinho, the only celebrity who tried to use a fake ID 😂

The fact this was posted 5 days after Ronaldinho gave a interview to a youtuber where he said Brazil will not win the 2024 Copa America.

It's kinda sad that a lot of Brazilian footballers are one of the most inspirational & idolized players of all time, But always have a bad downfall or end up on a bad note. Another big example would be Ronaldo Rivaldo. If it wasn't for that injury imagine how his legacy would hold up today.

It would be funnier if he had been advertising snickers, and the reason he was negative about the Brazil national team is because ‘you’re not you when you’re hungry’

Ronaldinho done things on the pitch h I never knew was possible His star ⭐️ burned bright but didn’t burn for long… The most entertaining player I’ve ever seen!

Ronaldinho was a beast in his prime, he can make the grand wall of Milan (Cafu, Stam, Nesta, and Maldini) scram to tackle the ball off of his magnificent dribbles, for a while it seems like he can dribble past anything that comes at his path, then came the bottle and everything crumbled so quickly

I was in Venezuela 2 weeks ago and watched him play for the local 7-side team, it was so bizarre 😅

I don't know why some Brazilians never live up to their full potentials. Ronaldinho, Neymar, Robinho.

he just straight up violated the brazil squad players😂😂

Ronaldinho was everything fun about football wrapped into one magnificent player. I was never a Brazil fan, and I've always had a bit of loathing towards Barcelona, but I watched him play whenever I could because he was almost a sure bet to do at least one thing per game that made you completely lose your mind in a fit of "How the f*** did he do that?!". Sad to see the state he's in now.

It sucks because if you take a *deeper* look, his brother is HIS manager so he's the one taking care of the deals with adverts, clubs and sponsorships. Ronaldinho wanted to be a footballer and he became one of the _greatest_ ever at his peak but his brother is tarnishing his legacy by them both going bankrupt and to jail ! Also nice video man 👌

Ronaldinho and Nadal made the 3/4 pants cool. I still own four pairs of the nike 3/4 soccer pants from the mid-2000s and those are my favorite summer weather pants.

Ronaldinho dancing with the ball made us smile, that's what mattered most.

Still remember a classmate of mine (we must've been around 9) dressing up as Ronaldinho for World Book Day because he'd "read" a biography of him. This would've been in around 2005.

Fun fact: Romario became a club president in Rio de Janeiro and actually returned to the pitch (for now).

Anyone from everywhere between 2000 and 2010 who knew anything about football was a Ronaldhino fan. Ronaldinho/Messi/Eto'o was my favourite Barcelona

Bro skipped the libertadores win and the game of the century against Neymar Santos (please look it up a 5-4 game full of magic)

Ronaldinho is still top 10 of all time…

Most naturally talented player to ever do it. Imagine what he could have done had he Messi mentality.

Idk man, Ronaldinho will be still be remembered in 50-100 years as an absolute world-beater. I already think of him as far more impactful than Neymar.

I still love dinho

I think it's hard for non-south americans to get it, but life comes first, dude won the Ballon D'or, World Cup, Champions League, Copa America, Libertadores and most important of all ENJOYING EVERY SINGLE DAY OF HIS LIFE, "oh but if he dedicated, drinked less, focused pure on football" he wouldn't be him and he did more than enough to live as a legend way beyond anyone who did better numbers than him

Ronaldinho is the reason I became a fan of football and the reason many became fans!

education in young age is important. the most enjoyable moments of football is ronaldinho for me then comes the others its sad. education is important.

They are ither done by 28 or still world class at 40 there really is no inbetween

My absolute all time favourite to watch

Ronaldinho is the GOAT 🐐!

All love stories are a tragedy and nobody made us love football more than Ronaldinho.

Ronaldinho at 50 years old is still better than any Burnley player in history

Ronaldinho is always gonna be my idol and the player that made me love the game will always be my idol

Im 31 years old german football fan since 2003. Next to my Team Werder Bremen it was guys like Ronaldinho and Eto'o who made me a Barca and Inter Fan too. If we didnt play Nintendo we were outside, playing football and wanted to be like Ronaldinho, Eto'o, Milito, Kaka, all the stars at the time. Its very sad what happens to some stars from south America and the massive gang problems. Im grateful for the pre CR7 and Messi era as well as I am for CR7/Messi era and that I could enjoy both those great times for football

best of his era

I just want to point out that, while it is the case for the overwhelming majority of Brazilian players, Ronaldinho didn't grow up in poverty. His older brother Assis was a football player at Gremio. And a good one. So he had a good financial situation. It was true that they came from poverty as a family but the situation was far better at Dinho's time. On that note, here in Brazil is well known that Ronaldinho is the Naive one, had he been protect as mention from a very young age, and the real shady one is his brother. He is the one managing Ronaldinho's carerre since the star and responsible for all the decisions. The situation in Paraguay was his arrangement and, the worst part is that you don't even need a passport to enter Paraguay as a Brazilian. Kind of a similar situation happens with Neymar. Neymar Sr was a professional football player and manages neymar's career since he was a child.

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Dinho the Wise? I thought not. It's not a story FIFA would tell you.

i was really sad when he went to ac milan i knew that it was over it wasnt the same anymore

Ronaldinho has a PhD in yappanomics

Top 5 Barca players all time & also he has every right to say those comments.

Now Ronaldinho should not be taken seriously

please make a video about the Welsh premier league. the league is ignored and underfunded despite the success of the welsh national team in recent years

Sad that ronaldinhos career peaked so early imagine how good dinho could've been if he didn't enjoy partying so much

I think you just highlighted it without noticing, he's a businessman now more than when he was player, you showed his Nike Barca ad and the only difference between then and now is Ronaldinho has limited media access, back then he was a walking highlight reel.

The intro was brilliant😂😂😂

The look in his eyes on that thumbnail.. 😢

I like Ronaldinho when he is on the pitch. Outside football ? Nahh

The true GOAT

Tragic insofar as it was completely avoidable. It was his fault. Also, he gets compared to legends in the game that have similar credentials but had primes much longer than only 3 years as he did.

0:56 Bro is NOT Vizehinho

It could be mental health

Wtf? Why a Tragic Tale??? Ronaldinho CHOSE to have a short prime, he reached the top of the world and after that he just went partying and living his life. Btw he is right about the current Brazil squad

Oh yeah his life is tragic. wtf. Best player in the world for 3 seasons then Father Time caught up. Real tragic

Not as tragic as burnley 23/24

The amount of people here in brazil agreeing with the first statement is nuts, it kinda of makes sense looking at it this way, many brazilian fans say stuff like this on a regular

Wow

loads of brazilians live around Turf moor area

Yo fizzeh you done Ronny dirty with that thumbnail.

Such a shame, money can destroy everything but I'm sure it's more than money...fame, women and yes men play there part too

Beans

he was better than cr7

Omg RonaALdinho.

He was right

The real question is this, why did anyone in Unilever's Brazilian Marketing Department think this stunt was a good idea?

But tbh Neymar is better looking at the stats

That was not Neymar in 2010 😂 He was playing for Santos then. He’s like 10-11 in that picture.

0:58 *You are a pro footballer do not downplay that FACT*

Yeah but don't forget Viz I know you're a Burnley fan but you must remember okocha mentored and trained ronaldinho who then trained Messi. So therefore, Messi is only possible because of okocha , the true GOAT (yes this a Bolton fan yes this is a meme) 🤣

why is brudda suddenly replying to all the comments

What's a Porto Al Ghair? Does he Meant Porto Alegre?

His downfall was sad Was i first???

If half of brazils footballers had a quarter of Ronaldos workrate then the world is doomed

It was Ronaldinho’s brother that was doing a lot of the business decisions and scams doing shady business

PORTO OQUE?!!!!

Is it sad I saw the title and my first thought was: "Did he lose another huge parlay AGAIN?!" But yeah, uh...he was kind of like Icarus. Flew too close to the Sun and burned out FAST.

He's not wrong about Brazil though. What happened to the Brazil that made us love football?

yo what about the tragic tale of belgium? 😏

I feel like a lot of people keep focussing on what he could have been instead of what he was and is. Despite not having the mentality to be the best it was enough for him to still be one of the best players in history. Not only with what he won, the things he did on the field are things I've never seen from other players, he was simply magical, and a guy that could make you smile by just touching a ball. He might not have been the greatest of all time, but he became one if not my favorite player, and the one who made me love the sport. And i say this being Argentinian too.

wtf is this. This wasn't a surprise at all. Brazilian youths are over played, he isn't the only one this happened to. The dude blew out his knees a few years before they had perfected the surgery. Every athlete before him face similar career altering injury risk at all times.

When Ronaldinho said he will not watch Brazil ganes because they will not win the copa america he was absolutely correct: Brazil lost their soul. Modt of the team left Brazil soo early they are playing like Europeans. South American football requires guts, and perseverance. In the qualifiers for the WC and lastest friendlies Brazil is playing wayy to delicate, there is a lot of diving, and they are too involce into European politics that do not apply to US. When you look at Uruguay playing peak Bielsaball, Argentina being Argentina, and Colombia not loosing a game in almost 3 years, yes Brazil's probability of winning are just not that good.

Liam was a footballer for Burnley Football club.

the brasilian magic is truly dead with neymar being the last wizard. players like vini have a more european play style and not brasilian.

When was Dinho the best in the world? He's always been a really entertaining player to watch, but was he ever the best? He does have a ballon d'or so you can say then but is that not because R9 (arguably the best Brazilian player of all time who only has 1 WC less than Pele) struggled with fitness and Premier League Players tend to not be rated as high for the ballon d'or (only 4 premier league players have ever won it)? Zidane, Kaka, young Neymar, young Messi, and young Cristiano Ronaldo all at different points also outshined Dinho. None of that is to say Dinho wasn't world class, but was he ever the best? He can very much be your personal goat and your favorite player of all time, but that's not what I am asking

Dinho is a footballer, not a business man/footballer. He is only smart football wise, anything else, shaky.

Maybe more focus on the rexona post to get the context of his original post shitting on Brazil. Love your stuff but this is silly.

Brazilians are weird when it comes to football. Weird mentality that is. For me Neymar is the biggest waste of potential of all time. Someone who could have been top 5 best players of all time fell so hard. And the biggest parameter that led to that is his mentality, not his football skills. I think his biggest mistake was moving from a romantic cult like club Barcelona to PSG just for the money and to be in the center of attention where he could be the main star of the team when he could have been Barcelona's legend with Messi as his friend and mentor. But it's sad how one of the best players in the world fell into irrelevancy. Last few years its been just constant injuries and parties with a few exceptions. I'm pretty sure out of all PSG matches where he was a part of the club after he joined them he played in about 50% of them which shows how injury prone he is and I think one of the reasons why that happened is because he left Barcelona when he was used to train in their own way and joined PSG that's a radically different club than Barcelona is.

Super early

Jesus Christ loves you

Early

First

first

Ronaldinho > Vini

hes washed and should retire

Ronaldinho was right about the national team tho they soft

Most naturally talented player to ever do it. Imagine what he could have done had he Messi mentality.

I don't know why some Brazilians never live up to their full potentials. Ronaldinho, Neymar, Robinho.