Déjà vu, and requiem for Ronaldinho

It has been so long and yet, many already have Ronaldinho put in our album of great memories. A little over five years was the biggest star in the world, the player that all children wanted to imitate: dribbling, his beatings, his passes, celebrations ... up your look. Nobody could with him, as proved that night gave the Bernabeu. Nobody but himself. His immense talent found its own nemesis in his giddy head.

There came a time to remain the best player in the world is no longer as important to him. He began to prefer nightlife, dance, flirt, mazarse to mixed drinks ... And the great Ronaldinho, the most spectacular player we had seen many, became a shadow of himself, a shadow with flab and flawed smile. Then, a day like yesterday, you find that there in Brazil, someone had a goal Gaucho-style and suddenly you realize that was the same person who scored Ronaldinho in this tremendous goal. The feelings that are aroused are found.

First, one can not help but smile and applaud. Glad to see that to which both admired still able to do incredible things like that great goal: Get started! Like old times ... He looks forward with power and comes across as one, it breaks with a single gesture , with the same ease and indifference with which one departs a fly. And when you step on the defense area and had previously left behind seems to be shut, Ronaldinho paste this slowdown that not only the opponent passes by, we all go with him, slaves of inertia. Ronaldinho. When we want to account (I repeat: the defense and all of us), Ronaldinho is already shaping up to cross the ball with a subtle shot that kissed the side netting. Stand for. Like many Madridistas made that November 19, 2005.

After seeing the goal repeated a few times and when the excitement begins to return to the right place, other feelings emerge. Too bad, not compassion. Indulgence, but not condescending. Bitterness, resentment ... but not focused resentment, but to the disappointment. Ronaldinho was great and it could have been more. But he would not. Someday 2007 (possibly a night, actually), Ronaldinho stopped hunger for glory and entered the thirst for other purposes.

He transferred to AC Milan, where for a time it seemed that he could return to be the same as before. Not better, but at least as a few years ago. Nothing. It was a mirage. Was that last sunshine in the instant before definitely hiding. In 2011 he left to Milan in mid-season to return to Brazil. Saturated in CR Flamengo, which he left by the back door, accused of not caring as to professional and elite after the club published a video of the midnight lamp with a woman footballer in concentration of the team.

Atletico Mineiro then arrived, with which now leads the Brasileirão (19th round of 38), a competition that you have not won since 1971 Gauls. Ronaldinho is still an important part of this success. At 32 years old is in his best form in all five years. But make no mistake. Chances are that we are facing another mirage and soon, again, we will have to lament as Ronaldinho, one that could be one of the largest in history, has again carried away .

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