Ronaldinho confirmed his return to football to play in the Kings League: the cinematographic presentation with Piqué and Ibai Llanos

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Ronaldinho will play football again and it will be in the Kings League. He was presented by Gerard Piqué and Ibai Llanos

Retired from professional practice since 2015, this Thursday the return of Ronaldinho to play in the Kings League, the 7-a-side football championship organized by Kosmos, the company Gerard Piqué and that in their twelve teams they have some former players. One of the teams is Porcinos FC from River Llanoswho leads the table and will have a luxury reinforcement with the former striker who knew how to stand out for his magic, charisma and forcefulness in the area.

Dinho, 42, was introduced by Piqué and Llanos, who starred in a brief sketch in a restaurant and at the end the Brazilian joined. The former Barcelona defender and the streamer talked about the next date and Ibai reported that he was missing a player to which Piqué told him that he had to grab the first one that came his way. That was the former striker who turned around and told them “if you want, I’ll play”, with his contagious smile.

Then they did a brief interview together in which Piqué confessed to Dinho that “as a boy I dreamed” of being like him. Regarding the Kings League, the former attacker who emerged from Gremio de Porto Alegre said: “I see it very well, I already know everything. Let’s have fun. I am very happy to be here with you and to enjoy”.

In addition, he said: “Soccer 7 plays a lot in Brazil. Now I’m playing soccer on the beach and it’s what I like the most, better than spending all day in the gym”.

Ronaldinho will play football again and it will be in the Kings League. He was interviewed by Gerard Piqué and Ibai Llanos

Lastly, he recalled his debut at Barcelona in September 2003, which was a game played at dawn in the Camp Nou Stadium and in which the Brazilian scored the goal for the 1-1 draw against Sevilla. “It was beautiful and unforgettable,” he said.

After his beginnings in his country playing for the Gremio, Dinho He emigrated to France in 2001 and spent two seasons at PSG. He spent five years at Barcelona and won the Champions League in 2006. He was the partner of a young Lionel Messi, who hugged him in the celebration of the first official goal. Later he went to Milan, where he spent three years, before returning to Brazil to play for Flamengo and Atlético Mineiro, with whom he won the Copa Libertadores in 2013. His epilogue at the club level was at Querétaro in Mexico and a brief stint for Fluminense.

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A piece of information that shows his collective work are his statistics in the teams in which he played with a total of 543 games, 197 goals and 163 assists. Despite being a forward, he liked to throw himself back and start the play from three quarters of the field. In the beginning he broke lines with his speed and then he immortalized the pass without looking (“no look pass”).

With his country’s national team, he was champion in the 1999 Copa América in Paraguay, in the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup and the 2005 Confederations Cup in Germany. With the Yellow green he played 97 games and scored 33 goals. At the youth level, he was the Under 17 world champion in Egypt in 1997.

With its incorporation, the Kings League adds a luxury reinforcement and there is a lot of expectation for the debut that will be this Sunday against PIO FC, the penultimate team in the tournament. It will be played from 17 in Argentina.

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