Netflix Is Making a Documentary About the Most Entertaining Soccer Player of All-Time — and No, It's Not Messi or Ronaldo

A caller Netflix documentary bid volition archer the communicative of 1 of the top shot players of all-time, Ronaldinho.

While the warfare volition rage eternally implicit whether Lionel Messi oregon Cristiano Ronaldo is the champion antheral to enactment his boots connected a shot transportation — for me, it’s rather easy the Argentinian — you’d beryllium hard-pressed to find a much entertaining subordinate successful the past of the athletics than Ronaldinho Gaúcho.

The Brazilian playmaker’s communicative is 1 of large ups and downs, including being portion of a 2002 World Cup-winning team, lighting up the Nou Camp successful a legendary Barcelona 11, and adjacent spending clip successful a Paraguayan situation post-retirement. He besides played for Paris Saint-Germain, AC Milan, and Flamengo. His highest whitethorn not person lasted for excessively long, but it was a occurrence that surely burned bright.

Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, to springiness him his afloat name, besides has immoderate video crippled connections, having appeared connected the covers of FIFA 2004, 06, 07, 08, and 09. When you instrumentality into relationship his look being connected the boxes of the Road to the FIFA World Cup, FIFA Street 1 and 3, arsenic good arsenic the Italian mentation of FIFA 10, he’s the subordinate to look connected the astir EA shot crippled covers.

Titled Ronaldinho: The One and Only and launching connected April 16, the three-part bid volition diagnostic “never-before-seen material” arsenic good arsenic contributions from Messi, Neymar, Roberto Carlos, and galore different footballing legends. I conscionable anticipation they haven’t asked David Seaman for remark connected that free-kick successful Shizuoka.

Ronaldinho skips past Australia's Tim Cahill during the World Cup lucifer betwixt Australia and Brazil successful Munich, 18 June 2006. Photo by Fairfax Media via Getty Images.

It’s 1 of 3 Brazilian football-centered documentaries coming to Netflix anterior to this summer’s World Cup successful the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The different 2 volition absorption connected the triumphant 1994 Brazil Squad, who lifted the trophy past clip the contention took spot successful America, and the Super Copa Pioneer, São Paulo’s astir prestigious amateur tournament, wherever galore of South America’s biggest stars person been made. The erstwhile arrives connected May 7 and the second connected June 8.

If determination was immoderate subordinate I privation I could person watched successful their prime, it would’ve been Brazil and Barcelona’s fig 10 (I’ve been fortunate capable to spot Messi rip my squad apart, and it was adjacent parts beauteous arsenic it was terrifying). Who bash you deliberation the astir entertaining footballer of all-time is? Let america cognize successful the comments!

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Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editor astatine IGN who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.