Ronaldinho Gaucho

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It feels great to see him enjoying his football again. Go prove the critics wrong Ronnie!

within 20 minutes, he's had 2 assists vs sampdoria and barely missed a free kick! dunga would be stupid to not take him to the world cup!

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within 20 minutes, he's had 2 assists vs sampdoria and barely missed a free kick! dunga would be stupid to not take him to the world cup!

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they should have called him up by now for Brazil. And he played wonderful today with 2 assist and the free kick was amazing. He got subbed off because of an injury but hopefully it isn't nothing to serious. And also Dunga has annouced that he will drop out of being the Brazil national team coach after the world cup ends, even if they win. He wants to be a club manager.

He was voted as the best player in last ten years by magazine World Soccer!

DINHO !!!

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Thanks Mina for the info... I didn't even know this award existed! Well done Ronnie for the Best Player of the Decade Award...totally deserving!!!! Wohoooo!!! An award to end all Awards, congratulations R o n a l d i n h o 80...

I'll even say that World Soccer's nominees are even spot on than French Football's are, at least for this year... here's the lowdown from WS site...

WORLD PLAYER OF THE YEAR % of votes
1 Lionel Messi (Barcelona & Argentina) 43.2
2 Andres Iniesta (Barcelona & Spain) 21.5
3 Xavi (Barcelona & Spain) 11.2
4 Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United/Real Madrid & Portugal) 6.4
5 Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Internazionale/Barcelona & Sweden) 4.2
6 David Villa (Valencia & Spain) 2.5
7 Diego Forlan (Atletico Madrid & Uruguay) 2.1
8 Fernando Torres (Liverpool & Spain) 1.3
9 Wayne Rooney (Manchester United & England) 0.8
10 Didier Drogba (Chelsea & Ivory Coast) 0.5
Others 6.3

WORLD TEAM OF THE YEAR
1 Barcelona 75.9
2 Spain 8.3
3 Brazil 3.8
4 North Korea 2.7
5 Wolfsburg 1.5
6 Estudiantes 1.4
7 Manchester United 1.3
8 England 0.8
9 Real Madrid 0.6
10 Bosnia-Herzegovina 0.3
Others 3.4

WORLD MANAGER OF THE YEAR
1 Pep Guardiola (Barcelona) 62.1
2 Felix Magath (Wolfsburg/Schalke) 9.7
3 Alex Ferguson (Manchester United) 5.3
4 Laurent Blanc (Bordeaux) 4.8
5 Fabio Capello (England) 3.9
6 Marcelo Bielsa (Chile) 3.4
7 Carlos Dunga (Brazil) 2.9
8 Roy Hodgson (Fulham) 1.3
9 Alex Sabella (Estudiantes) 1.1
10 Jose Mourinho (Internazionale) 0.8
Others 4.7

YOUNG PLAYER OF THE YEAR
1 Sergio Aguero (Atletico Madrid & Argentina) 45.1
2 Alexandre Pato (Milan & Brazil) 25.2
3 Stevan Jovetic (Fiorentina & Montengro) 9.8
4 Karim Benzema (Lyon/Real Madrid & France) 4.6
5 Bojan Krkic (Barcelona & Spain) 3.6
6 Mesut Ozil (Werder Bremen & Germany) 2.5
7 Theo Walcott (Arsenal & England) 2.3
8 Alan Dzagoev (CSKA Moscow & Russia) 1.2
9 Sergio Busquets (Barcelona & Spain) 1.1
10 Dominic Adiyiah (Fredrikstad & Ghana) 0.6
Others 4.0

WORLD PLAYER OF THE DECADE points
1 Ronaldinho 781*
2 Lionel Messi 759
3 Cristiano Ronaldo 708
4 Thierry Henry 619
5 Kaka 567
6 Fabio Cannavaro 401
7 Pavel Nedved 394
8 Michael Owen 330
9 Luis Figo 290
10 Zinedine Zidane 270
11 Raul 261
12 Ronaldo 260
13 Andriy Shevchenko 230
14 Andres Iniesta 215
15 Michael Ballack 180
16 Xavi 163
17 Rivaldo 150
18 Fernando Torres 149
19= Samuel Eto'o 146
19= Frank Lampard 146
21 Steven Gerrard 134
22 Deco 130
23 Francesco Totti 107
24 Ruud Van Nistrelrooy 99
25 Oliver Kahn 90
26 Paolo Maldini 82
27 Didier Drogba 79
28 Juan Roman Riquelme 77
29 Adriano 73
30 Iker Casillas 59
31 Andrei Arshavin 54
32 Zlatan Ibrahimovic 53
33 Gianluigi Buffon 49
34 David Villa 46
35 Roy Makaay 40
36 David Beckham 37
37 Wayne Rooney 36
38 Diego Forlan 21
39= Gabriel Batistuta 20
39= Henrik Larsson 20

* Meanwhile, Ronaldinho, a former team-mate of Messi, was voted World Soccer's Player of the Decade. Based on the votes cast by readers in the 10 annual votes between 2000 and 2009, the Brazilian – who was our World Player of the Year in 2004 and 2005 – is the outstanding performer of the past 10 years.

I like the votes. It makes more sense than the Fifa World Player of the year. I agree with almost everything but I think Laurent Blanc shouldve been ranked higher

Highlights from Golden Foot awards... Ronnie speaks in fluent Italian !

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I'm so happy for Dinho!

He looks so tired this season, mind. Not in terms of fitness, I mean his eyes. Or is that just me?

I feel happy for Ronaldinho to win the player of the decade award, which I didn't know existed. His form with Milan right now is great, but not as great how he was playing when he was in his prime.

ronnie should go to MLS with henry then he could have some fun LA would be perfect for him

Awesome to see the man back in good form. He won't be able to be the player he once was but he's still pretty awesome. I always said he needed to adjust his game to run less and to put in more passes, now that he has he's got a new lease on life as a footballer.

Looking at the "Player of the decade" award it seems to show how short people's memories are with the list heavily biased towards players who have performed better in the second half of the decade.

Who would you have given it to personally?