Ronaldinho’s 2am bongo classes at Barcelona nearly led Lionel Messi astray
Ronaldinho’s late evening bongo drums classes nearly had an affect on Lionel Messi, based on officers at Barcelona.
The Brazilian magician continues to be thought of to be certainly one of the best footballers of his technology, dazzling followers and defenders together with his chic abilities and devastating objectives on the pitch. However, in his later years, the World Cup and Champions League winner’s actions away from the sector started to meet up with him on the Nou Camp.
As the Catalans stagnated within the remaining years of Frank Rijkaard’s reign, Ronaldinho’s late evening samba raves together with his team-mates began grating with senior figures on the Nou Camp. While his particular person brilliance meant the membership forgave and tolerated his partying, their endurance disappeared after they allegedly noticed Messi, who was solely a teenager on the time, was getting swept into the get together life-style.
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Xavier Sala-I-Martin, Barcelona treasurer between 2006 and 2010, opened up in regards to the frustrations they’d with the sliky midfielder within the later years of his time on the membership. Speaking as a part of the BBC documentary ‘Pep Guardiola: Chasing Perfection’ Martin mentioned: “Ronaldinho performs bongos till two within the morning each evening.
“Everybody sees that. Everybody has cellular phones and takes pictures of him so everybody knows. We had a discipline problem.”
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The ex-Barcelona official then made a particularly daring declare, saying: “The quantity of issues we had on the time. Ronaldinho was getting previous, he’s partying on a regular basis, making an attempt to suck Messi into his life-style.”
It was this dressing room culture which eventually led to Rijkaard departing the club. The Dutch legend won the Champions League, two La Liga titles and two Spanish Super Cups during his five year spell between 2003 and 2008.
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He would go on to get replaced by Guardiola, who was managing the Barcelona B-team on the time. However, if Martin had acquired his approach, the now Manchester City supervisor wouldn’t have taken up place within the Barcelona dugout.
“[We thought] ‘How do you stop it,” Martin mentioned. “‘Well, we want a sergeant, we want a basic. Who is the best basic on the earth? Jose Mourinho.” As folks wish to say on a regular basis, the remainder is historical past.
