La Liga – FC Barcelona Would he have had the same career?
Ronaldinho was a good teacher for Lionel Messi. The Brazilian educated Argentina from an early age Barcelona, and the current club captain has grown a lot under his supervision.
But that opportunity came close to not happening Joan Laporta followed by a move to draw Cristiano Ronaldo.
“We were about to sign Ronaldinho and Rafa Marquez,” Laporta said in an interview with Twitter account Iniestazo. ‘The people of Marquez introduced Cristiano Ronaldo to us. He was at Sporting Clube at the time.
‘One of his agents said they had a player to whom they sold [Manchester] United for 19 million, but they would sell him to us for 17 million.
“But we were already investing in Ronaldinho at the time. Cristiano played wider than in the center. We thought we were covered, so we rejected him and I’m not sorry.”
Modern football can be completely different than Laporta Cristiano signed.