Ronaldinho Gaucho, a Brazilian soccer player, was born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil in 1980.
Ronaldo de Assis Moreira (born March 21, 1980), popularly known as Ronaldinho Gacho or just Ronaldinho, is a retired Brazilian professional footballer who mostly played as an offensive midfielder but was sometimes used as a winger. Ronaldinho, recognised as one of the finest players of his generation and by many as one of the greatest of all time, earned two FIFA World Player of the Year honours as well as a Ballon d'Or. He was a global soccer star known for his technical prowess, inventiveness, dribbling ability and accuracy from free kicks, use of trickery, feints, no-look passes, and overhead kicks, and ability to score and create goals.
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