The former Brazilian football star Ronaldinho is going to try at 46 to score ‘a 300th goal’ with Ravenna, an ambitious Italian third-division club that’s been organizing his unexpected return to the pitch, he explained on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The former Brazilian football star Ronaldinho will try at 46 to score “his 300th goal” with Ravenna, an ambitious third-division Italian club orchestrating his unexpected return to the pitch, he explained on Thursday. “I am very happy to be here with friends, we have a team to do something good,” said the 2005 Ballon d’Or on the sidelines of his official presentation on a beach in Ravenna (northeast), during a press briefing reserved for a few media selected by the club and the player’s entourage. “Will you see me play? I don’t know, only the coach knows. Being back in Italy is great, I am here to help my teammates win,” Ronaldinho continued, arriving on the Adriatic coast by private jet at midday, according to remarks reported by Gazzetta dello Sport. “As you can see, I am in shape, I feel good (…). If I could score my 300th goal, that would be even more beautiful,” added the former Paris SG player (2001).03), from FC Barcelona (2003-08) and AC Milan (2008-11). Ronaldinho, crowned world champion with Brazil in 2002 and selected 97 times (33 goals) for the Sele\u00e7\u00e3o, played his last official match in September 2015 with the Brazilian club Fluminense. His comeback had been announced in June on the sidelines of the World Cup in Miami by Ignazio Cipriani, an Italian-American businessman and club owner since 2024. “His goal is romantic: to try to score his last goal. His involvement isn\u2019t a fa\u00e7ade or a marketing stunt to get us noticed,” he defended, before admitting that the Brazilian would enter the club’s capital and wouldn\u2019t play against Reggiana on Monday in the opening of the Serie C season. At the end of a long ceremony, Ronaldinho, white cap on his head and sporting huge sunglasses,ended up taking the stage to greet his new teammates and pose alongside his leaders wearing a white jersey with his name and the number 10. He is set to take part in a public training session scheduled for Friday night. Ravenna finished 3rd in Group B of the last third-division championship and is aiming to return to Serie B, where they haven’t played since 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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