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Ronaldinho: Does his Legend still Stand?

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Background: Ronaldo de Assis Moreira is a  former  Brazilian professional footballer and is now an ambassador for the Spanish club FC Barcelona.  He was born on the 21 March 1980 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He mostly played as an attacking midfielder but was also deployed as a winger or a forward.  At the tender age of eight, Ronaldo's football skills began to get color and he was given the nickname "Ronaldinho" just because he was often the youngest player in youth club matches. His first limelight moment came at the age of 13 when he scored all 23 goals in a 23–0 victory against a local team. Achievements As highlighted above, Ronaldinho's first taste of the limelight was when he scored 23 goals in one goal. He went on to make his debut in football in  the 1998 Copa Libertadores.   1999 saw the entrance of Ronaldinho having scored 23 goals in 48  matches,  and from there, his career only went higher.  the start of the 1999 Copa América, o...
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Pele Vs Maradona

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Pele Origins Pelé , byname of  Edson Arantes do Nascimento , (born October 23, 1940, Três Corações, Brazil—died December 29, 2022, São Paolo, Brazil), Brazilian  football  (soccer) player, in his time probably the most famous and possibly the best-paid athlete in the world. He was part of the Brazilian national teams that won three  World Cup championships (1958, 1962, and 1970).  Pelé (whose nickname apparently is without significance) was rejected by major club teams in the city of São Paulo. In 1956, however, he joined the Santos Football Club, which, with Pelé as an inside left forward, won nine São Paulo league championships and, in 1962 and 1963, both the Libertadores Cup and the Intercontinental Club Cup. Sometimes called “Pérola Negra” (“Black Pearl”), he became a Brazilian national hero. He  combined  kicking power and accuracy with a remarkable ability to anticipate other players’ moves. After the 1958  World Cup , Pelé was declared a na...
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