Ronaldinho Gaúcho

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... is that a lot of people immediately were thinking of Ronaldinho, and I, I had to deal with the accusation.

So as I said, a lot of people thought I was talking about Ronaldinho, who I wasn't necessarily talking about.

[laughs] There's, remember, a ton of Brazilians that have played for Barcelona, and now with Raphinha, I, I'm just gonna add a, a few little things here, then we'll talk about legacy.

He is already for Barcelona-

...

Raphinha has, has, has been excellent.

So again, I did not intend for everyone to say, "Hey, he's not better than Ronaldinho.

But I'm going for, for me, who is my favorite player of all time since I've been watching football.

Didn't have the greatest of finals against Arsenal, but undoubtedly one of the best players to ever do it, and that is Ronaldinho

Pooh

Straight

Done it many, many, millions of times.

Marcs, can you read out my team, please?

So like I said, a midfield three of Rodri, Iniesta, and Totty, and a front three of Didier Drogba in the nine, Ronaldinho off the left, and Wayne Rooney off the right.

[laughs]

Creativity, definitely.

Not like Ronaldinho, but he's the one, a bit like Guimarães in some ways, I would say.

More of that type, like he can tackle, he can heal, but

he

Mm-hmm.

Is Ronaldinho Jr. the biggest what-if? Like, is he one of the biggest what-ifs in baseball history?

He's on track to

be.

I mean, the defence were absolutely horrendous.

Cole Palmer came on and looked like prime Ronaldinho.

He just absolutely run the show when he came on.

And that begs the question, how on earth did Cole Palmer not go to the World Cup? I don't care what anybody said, he's formal Paul at the end of the season.

Neymar.

No. Ronaldinho.

No.

No, he's bigger than Ronaldinho.

Ronaldinho is mythic.

R9.

R9.

Yeah, you're talking your Barrages and your Albeidas, you know, very, very talented football players, but they'll never be the ones that you immediately go out and think of when you think of this team, unlike your Imars or even for me, you know, your Vicente, you know, he...

Again, Polly gets lost in the noise a bit around this age because the emergence of the winger as a role You know, he's very much dominated in this area by, you know, the likes of your Ryan Giggs, your Ned Fed, your, you know, latterly your Ronaldinho's and such and such.

But for me, he was up there, you know, as one of the best in the world at doing this and, you know, not just been able to be a brilliant attacking outlet, but also, again, similar to Aymar, defensively really solid, really strong and very reliable, wasn't he?

Yeah, it was two things.

the way? I did not see the halftime show, but that looked like it was some old lady being driven to the beach by her grandsons,

right? But it was like Ronaldinho and Ronaldo.

Yeah, yeah.

In a little weird beach buggy.