Roberto Carlos  And Ronaldinho  Test Strength Again

Roberto Carlos  And Ronaldinho  Test Strength Again

OpenLife Nigeria reports that Roberto Carlos da Silva Rocha, 49, commonly known as Roberto Carlos, who  was part of the Selecao U23 team that lost to Nigeria in the semi-final of the ever green 1996 Olympics Games which held Atlanta, Georgia,  United States of America, has tested his strength again with  42 years old Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, commonly known as Ronaldinho , a Brazilian retired professional footballer who played mostly as an attacking midfielder, but was also deployed as a winger.

The Brazilian football legends engaged in a historic  exhibition match titled ‘The Beautiful Game’ in Miami Heat Florida

Sports Football ‘The Beautiful Game’ exhibition took place at the DRV PNK Stadium, home of Major League Soccer (MLS) giants Inter Miami. The game featured some legends of the game and some of the present crop of superstars.

The exhibition game in the early hours of Sunday, June 19 featured two teams, one for Ronaldinho and the other for Roberto Carlos. The team by Ronaldinho were kitted in Gold while Roberto Carlos’ team wore blue.

The two teams wore the dominant colors of the Brazilian national team. There were a lot of Brazilian favor present at the game.

Nani speaking about the game said, “I’m enjoying this wonderful opportunity that these fútbol legends have given me. It’s been a great honor to be here and share the pitch with them.

“So, for that reason, at this moment, I am only thinking about what is happening right now because it’s a special moment and definitely one that I am enjoying.”

Roberto Carlos was also pleased with the game, he said, “For me, to play with them was the best.

“To be able to reunite the friends, players you always see on the TV, to be able to bring them here – which was difficult with every player having their own schedule, some on vacations, others thinking about their contracts.

“We’ve been asking for them to join us for a while and we’ve been able to get the majority. It’s been great.

“A full stadium to see these players like Ronaldinho, Mariano, Vinicius [Jr.], [Eder] Militao, and more. That’s very worth it.”

TEAM ROBERTO CARLOS stars Sébastien Frey, Roberto Carlos, Cafu, Éder Militão, Arturo Vidal, Hristo Stoichkov, Rivaldo Denis Zakaria,

Others are Radamel Falcao, Nani, David Trezeguet Ivan Zamorano Mariano -Steve Nash.

TEAM RONALDINHO stars Rafa Marquez, Diego Lugano, Ronaldinho, Deco, Paulo Dybala, Paul Pogba, Blaise Matuidi

Others are Ryan Babel, Vinicius Jr, Patrick Kluivert, Jimmy Butler.

Roberto Carlos started his career in Brazil as a forward but spent most of his career as a left-back and has been described as the “most offensive-minded left-back in the history of the game”.

A free kick specialist throughout his career, his bending shots have measured at over 105 miles per hour (169 km/h).

In 1997, he was runner-up in the FIFA World Player of the Year. Widely considered one of the greatest left backs in history, in 2004 was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world’s greatest living players.

At club level, Roberto Carlos joined Real Madrid from Inter Milan in 1996 to spend 11 highly successful seasons, playing 584 matches in all competitions and scoring 71 goals. At Real, he won four La Liga titles and the UEFA Champions League three times. In April 2013, Marca named him in their “Best Foreign Eleven in Real Madrid’s History”.

He is one of the few players to have made over 1,100 professional career appearances at club and international level.

Roberto Carlos made his debut for the Brazil national team in 1992. He played in three World Cups, helping the team reach the final in 1998 in France, and win the 2002 tournament in Korea/Japan.

He was named in the FIFA World Cup All-Star Team in 1998 and 2002.

With Brazil he is especially known for a bending 40-yard free kick against France in the inaugural match of Tournoi de France 1997. With 125 caps he has made the second most appearances for his national team.

He was chosen on the FIFA World Cup Dream Team in a 2002 FIFA poll.

He took up management and was named as the manager of Sivasspor in the Turkish Süper Lig in June 2013.

He resigned as head coach in December 2014. From January to June 2015, he was manager of Akhisarspor. Although Roberto Carlos announced his retirement from playing at the age of 39 in 2012, in July 2015 he was appointed player/manager of Indian Super League club Delhi Dynamos, with whom he would make three appearances.

On the other hand,   Ronaldinho, considered one of the best players of his generation and one of the most talented players ever, won two FIFA World Player of the Year awards and a Ballon d’Or.

A global icon of the sport and an exponent of the “Joga Bonito” style of play, he was renowned for his technical skills, creativity, dribbling ability and accuracy from free-kicks, his use of tricks, feints, no-look passes and overhead kicks, as well as his ability to score and create goals.

Ronaldinho made his career debut for Grêmio, in 1998. At age 20, he moved to Paris Saint-Germain in France before signing for Barcelona in 2003. In his second season with Barcelona, he won his first FIFA World Player of the Year award as Barcelona won the 2004–05 La Liga title.

The season that followed is considered one of the best in his career as he was integral in Barcelona winning the 2005–06 UEFA Champions League, their first in fourteen years, and another La Liga title, giving Ronaldinho his first career double, receiving the 2005 Ballon d’Or and his second FIFA World Player of the Year in the process. After scoring two spectacular solo goals in the first 2005–06 El Clásico, Ronaldinho became the second Barcelona player, after Diego Maradona in 1983, to receive a standing ovation from Real Madrid fans at the Santiago Bernabéu.

Following a second-place La Liga finish to Real Madrid in the 2006–07 season and an injury-plagued 2007–08 season, Ronaldinho suffered a decline in his performances—often put down to a decrease in dedication and focus having achieved so much in the sport—and departed Barcelona to join AC Milan, where he won the 2010–11 Serie A. He returned to Brazil to play for Flamengo in 2011 and Atlético Mineiro a year later where he won the 2013 Copa Libertadores, before moving to Mexico to play for Querétaro and then back to Brazil to play for Fluminense in 2015. Ronaldinho accumulated numerous other individual awards in his career: he was included in the UEFA Team of the Year and the FIFA World XI three times each, and was named UEFA Club Footballer of the Year for the 2005–06 season and South American Footballer of the Year in 2013; in 2004, he was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world’s greatest living players.

In his international career with Brazil, Ronaldinho earned 97 caps and scored 33 goals and represented his country in two FIFA World Cups. After debuting with the Seleção by winning the 1999 Copa América, he was an integral part of the 2002 FIFA World Cup-winning team, starring alongside Ronaldo and Rivaldo in an attacking trio, and was named in the FIFA World Cup All-Star Team. As captain, he led his team to the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup title and was named man of the match in the final. He also captained the Brazil Olympic team to a bronze medal in men’s football at the 2008 Summer Olympics.