THERE was a moment in the second half of Brazil’s game against the Republic of Ireland, at the Emirates stadium on Tuesday, that showed what the team have become under their pragmatic coach Dunga. By then, Brazil were in control and when centre-back Juan won another challenge with Kevin Doyle, it seemed nothing more than a routine moment.
In challenging for possession Doyle lost a boot and after the ball had been cleared, he turned to retrieve it. Juan noticed the forlorn footwear and smashed it out into touch. Doyle couldn’t quite believe what he had seen.
Dunga’s Brazil are strong and committed, they work hard and defend well. As Juan crassly reminded us, making friends is not a priority. He took as much notice of Doyle’s annoyance as the coach did of the fan with the ‘Dunga, why not Ronaldinho?’ banner. They aim to win.
The feeling is that Dunga won’t take Ronaldinho to the World Cup, preferring the team-orientated creator, Kaka, and Dunga is in a Brazilian minority that believes a team can have too much creativity. Not only Ronaldinho but even Pato and Diego may not make Dunga’s World Cup squad. Brazil are not overloaded with brilliance but in Dunga’s scheme, the more prosaic qualities are valued.
They were well matched by the Republic in the first half but once the Irish began to tire, Brazil’s strength and skill began to tell and a two-goal victory could have been four or five.
With Spain, Brazil deserve to be World Cup favourites. What is certain is that they will be a very difficult side to beat. Equally certain is that Dunga’s way will not meet with unanimous approval, certainly not in his home country.
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Friday, December 11, 2009
Ronaldinho Named 'Player Of The Decade' By World Soccer Magazine
World Soccer magazine named Brazil forward Ronaldinho as 'Player of the Decade' on Thursday. The World Player of the Year was awarded to Lionel Messi of Barca.
Ronaldinho emerged as winner after 10 annual votes between 2000 and 2009 by the readers were converted into points. The Brazilian has been already named ‘World Player of the Year’ in 2004 and 2005.He again tops the footballer list followed by Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal and Real Madrid.
The European club champions Barcelona were named the Team of the Year.The 2009 Ballon D'Or award winner Messi is the first Argentine to win the prestigious World Soccer's World Player award since Diego Maradona in 1986.
Pep Guardiola who has had just a season with Barcelona was voted Manager of the Year. He left behind Wolfsburg coach Felix Magath and Manchester United's Alex Ferguson.
http://www.india-server.com/news/ronaldinho-named-player-of-the-decade-17677.html
Ronaldinho emerged as winner after 10 annual votes between 2000 and 2009 by the readers were converted into points. The Brazilian has been already named ‘World Player of the Year’ in 2004 and 2005.He again tops the footballer list followed by Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal and Real Madrid.
The European club champions Barcelona were named the Team of the Year.The 2009 Ballon D'Or award winner Messi is the first Argentine to win the prestigious World Soccer's World Player award since Diego Maradona in 1986.
Pep Guardiola who has had just a season with Barcelona was voted Manager of the Year. He left behind Wolfsburg coach Felix Magath and Manchester United's Alex Ferguson.
http://www.india-server.com/news/ronaldinho-named-player-of-the-decade-17677.html
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Global Soccer: Academy for Brazilians on the Fields of Italy
Before a ball was kicked in the Serie A season, the national coach, Marcello Lippi, expressed the wish that the Italian league would make the world sit up and notice its quality before the World Cup in 2010.
Maybe it will. But it might not be the Italians doing it.
The eye-catching performances in AC Milan’s 2-1 victory in Siena on Saturday night were Alexandre Pato and Ronaldinho in the attack and Alessandro Nesta and Thiago Silva in defense. Three of the four are Brazilians who are hoping the Italian league makes their national coach, Carlos Dunga, sit up and notice them.
The other, certainly, is pure Italian, Roman in fact. But Nesta, classy defender though he could once claim to be, is 33 and coming back gingerly from a back injury that many feared might finish his career.
In the hot and humid late summer Tuscan night, the dovetailing of Nesta and Thiago was exactly what Milan needed after the retirement of the club captain, Paolo Maldini.
“Thiago helps him, Nesta guides him,” Leonardo, the new Milan coach, said on television after the game. “They complete each other.
“Sandro had the possibility of not playing anymore. This gave him an incredible motivation to return the same player as before.”
Thiago, almost a decade younger, tall and strong but also quick because he started his career as a winger with Fluminense, is, of course, a Brazilian, like his new coach.
Before Saturday, Leonardo had never coached in competitive sports. Now he is entrusted by Silvio Berlusconi, Milan’s president and Italy’s prime minister, to take care of his team. A player at the highest level, a World Cup winner with Brazil, but, before this summer, more of an aide, a talent scout to the president, Leonardo has replaced Carlo Ancelotti who had five years as a Milan player and eight as its coach.
The first player Ancelotti tried to take with him when he decamped to Chelsea in June was Milan’s “baby,” another Brazilian, Pato. Ancelotti had called Pato a phenomenon of youth — swift, with a powerful shot, superb balance and, something that nobody can coach, that extra sense of where the goals are.
Berlusconi said yes to selling Kaká, his Brazilian playmaker, to Real Madrid soon after Ancelotti left. He said no, at any price, to letting Pato go.
Those who have followed this remarkable youngster can sense why. But he looks a youth no longer. His birth certificate says he was born in Pato Branco, in the south of Brazil, 19 years ago, but the growth of beard, the possibly still-growing stature, the sometimes almost calloused expression, makes him a man before his time.
Pato, whose real name is Alexandre Rodrigues da Silva, slipped back to Brazil to marry the actress Sthefany Brito last month. Their honeymoon was short; Milan, like many a top European club, had scheduled a summer tour to make dollars in the United States.
It had lost eight out of 10 matches leading up to the Serie A start on Saturday. Leonardo claimed he was little troubled by that because he had seen the form and the pride being primed by his players for the real thing.
“I’m in the role now of thinking about others’ emotions, not mine,” said the coach. “My rapport with Berlusconi is very good. Berlusconi is in love with Ronaldinho. He thinks he has a pearl at home that needs to be used at its best.
“I have known Ronaldinho forever. I know his story, I played for years with his brother, I’m Brazilian. With Ronaldinho, it’s now or never with Milan and with the national team. Pato is an incredible talent who must affirm himself in the national team. I think they and Thiago will soon return to Brazil’s lineup.”
They are not on the squad named for the Sept. 5 crunch qualifying match in Rosario, Argentina. But five Serie A players are on the squad, as are Kaká and Adriano, who recently left AC Milan and Inter. As Lippi wished, the Italian league is being noticed, if only as a major part of a Brazilian renaissance.
What illuminated the tough opening fixture in Siena on Saturday was hugely Brazilian. Ronaldinho, pulling the strings of imagination behind the running of Pato and Marco Borriello, has some way to go to recapture the magical Ronaldinho of three or four seasons ago with Barcelona.
But little by little, the passes of Ronaldinho, the timing, the spontaneity split Siena’s rugged, he-man back line. There were men there who tried to kick Pato from the thighs down, but Ronaldinho knew where to put the ball, in places where those pack dogs would not snap at the younger Brazilian.
Each goal that Pato scored and at least four other chances emanated from Ronaldinho’s exact passes and Pato’s intuitive running. Add to that Borriello’s willingness to be the selfless foil and the pace of Marek Jankulovski down the left, and the two goals might well have been five.
Milan, despite six players missing through injury and its new striker, Klass-Jan Huntelaar, suspended, did just enough to win. Siena leveled after Pato’s first goal, but never looked likely to do so twice.
Pato turns 20 next month. He was sadly, almost comically, pursued by a pack of Siena players angry with him for teasing and wasting time at the end — but Pato has been upsetting older players since he was 3.
That is when he was spotted, and he then played futsal, indoor soccer. By 11 he had moved in with 83 boys and youths in the training academy of Internacional in Porto Alegre. After 10 games for that club, Pato, then 17, was sold to Milan.
Italy has been preparing him for Brazil ever since.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/sports/soccer/24iht-SOCCER.html
Maybe it will. But it might not be the Italians doing it.
The eye-catching performances in AC Milan’s 2-1 victory in Siena on Saturday night were Alexandre Pato and Ronaldinho in the attack and Alessandro Nesta and Thiago Silva in defense. Three of the four are Brazilians who are hoping the Italian league makes their national coach, Carlos Dunga, sit up and notice them.
The other, certainly, is pure Italian, Roman in fact. But Nesta, classy defender though he could once claim to be, is 33 and coming back gingerly from a back injury that many feared might finish his career.
In the hot and humid late summer Tuscan night, the dovetailing of Nesta and Thiago was exactly what Milan needed after the retirement of the club captain, Paolo Maldini.
“Thiago helps him, Nesta guides him,” Leonardo, the new Milan coach, said on television after the game. “They complete each other.
“Sandro had the possibility of not playing anymore. This gave him an incredible motivation to return the same player as before.”
Thiago, almost a decade younger, tall and strong but also quick because he started his career as a winger with Fluminense, is, of course, a Brazilian, like his new coach.
Before Saturday, Leonardo had never coached in competitive sports. Now he is entrusted by Silvio Berlusconi, Milan’s president and Italy’s prime minister, to take care of his team. A player at the highest level, a World Cup winner with Brazil, but, before this summer, more of an aide, a talent scout to the president, Leonardo has replaced Carlo Ancelotti who had five years as a Milan player and eight as its coach.
The first player Ancelotti tried to take with him when he decamped to Chelsea in June was Milan’s “baby,” another Brazilian, Pato. Ancelotti had called Pato a phenomenon of youth — swift, with a powerful shot, superb balance and, something that nobody can coach, that extra sense of where the goals are.
Berlusconi said yes to selling Kaká, his Brazilian playmaker, to Real Madrid soon after Ancelotti left. He said no, at any price, to letting Pato go.
Those who have followed this remarkable youngster can sense why. But he looks a youth no longer. His birth certificate says he was born in Pato Branco, in the south of Brazil, 19 years ago, but the growth of beard, the possibly still-growing stature, the sometimes almost calloused expression, makes him a man before his time.
Pato, whose real name is Alexandre Rodrigues da Silva, slipped back to Brazil to marry the actress Sthefany Brito last month. Their honeymoon was short; Milan, like many a top European club, had scheduled a summer tour to make dollars in the United States.
It had lost eight out of 10 matches leading up to the Serie A start on Saturday. Leonardo claimed he was little troubled by that because he had seen the form and the pride being primed by his players for the real thing.
“I’m in the role now of thinking about others’ emotions, not mine,” said the coach. “My rapport with Berlusconi is very good. Berlusconi is in love with Ronaldinho. He thinks he has a pearl at home that needs to be used at its best.
“I have known Ronaldinho forever. I know his story, I played for years with his brother, I’m Brazilian. With Ronaldinho, it’s now or never with Milan and with the national team. Pato is an incredible talent who must affirm himself in the national team. I think they and Thiago will soon return to Brazil’s lineup.”
They are not on the squad named for the Sept. 5 crunch qualifying match in Rosario, Argentina. But five Serie A players are on the squad, as are Kaká and Adriano, who recently left AC Milan and Inter. As Lippi wished, the Italian league is being noticed, if only as a major part of a Brazilian renaissance.
What illuminated the tough opening fixture in Siena on Saturday was hugely Brazilian. Ronaldinho, pulling the strings of imagination behind the running of Pato and Marco Borriello, has some way to go to recapture the magical Ronaldinho of three or four seasons ago with Barcelona.
But little by little, the passes of Ronaldinho, the timing, the spontaneity split Siena’s rugged, he-man back line. There were men there who tried to kick Pato from the thighs down, but Ronaldinho knew where to put the ball, in places where those pack dogs would not snap at the younger Brazilian.
Each goal that Pato scored and at least four other chances emanated from Ronaldinho’s exact passes and Pato’s intuitive running. Add to that Borriello’s willingness to be the selfless foil and the pace of Marek Jankulovski down the left, and the two goals might well have been five.
Milan, despite six players missing through injury and its new striker, Klass-Jan Huntelaar, suspended, did just enough to win. Siena leveled after Pato’s first goal, but never looked likely to do so twice.
Pato turns 20 next month. He was sadly, almost comically, pursued by a pack of Siena players angry with him for teasing and wasting time at the end — but Pato has been upsetting older players since he was 3.
That is when he was spotted, and he then played futsal, indoor soccer. By 11 he had moved in with 83 boys and youths in the training academy of Internacional in Porto Alegre. After 10 games for that club, Pato, then 17, was sold to Milan.
Italy has been preparing him for Brazil ever since.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/sports/soccer/24iht-SOCCER.html
Monday, April 13, 2009
Pato Sure Kaka And Ancelotti Will Remain At Milan
The Rossoneri starlet is fairly certain that his fellow countryman and coach will both remain at the club.
Apr 8, 2009 7:39:40 PM
Kaka-Ronaldinho-Pato Torino-Milan Serie A (Grazia Neri)
Milan are currently well-positioned in the league in third place and are looking extremely likely to qualify for next season’s UEFA Champions League, after missing out to Fiorentina this term.
With their season all but over, much of the news coming from the Rossoneri camp of late has centred on transfer news, mainly concerning Kaka and coach Carlo Ancelotti.
Both have been linked with moves away from the club at the conclusion of the season, with the likes of Real Madrid and Chelsea linked as possible destinations. Despite this, the club’s top scorer this season, Alexandre Pato, believes that both the trainer and the Brazilian playmaker will remain with the club next term.
“In January I was very scared with everything I read in the newspapers about the possible departure of Kaka,” Pato admitted in an interview with Milan Studio Sport.
“He made the right choice in deciding to stay here though, as this is, and will always be, his home. With him by my side I can learn so many things, and hopefully become a great player too.
“Ancelotti is another who always helps me, both in matches and in training. With this in mind, I will not be happy if he leaves either, and I don’t think he will, as he has a close bond with the club.”
The 19-year-old star went on to discuss his international future with Brazil, and the recent dramas surrounding his snub from Dunga’s starting line-up despite his outstanding form with Milan.
He said, “I am very happy to be called up to the Brazilian national team, so I do respect all those who stand before me in Dunga’s eyes.
“I will keep working hard, and do my best to ensure that in eighteen months time I am at the World Cup in South Africa.”
http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/86/italy/2009/04/09/1199666/pato-sure-kaka-and-ancelotti-will-remain-at-milan
Friday, February 13, 2009
Friendly demonstrations of sheer skill
Playing for points is one thing, putting on an exhibition of the skills of soccer quite another. In London, in Marseille and in Seville this midweek there were so-called friendly international games that left packed audiences in no doubt about who are the modern masters of the sport.
With goals from Elano and Robinho, with a stunning reminder of how great Ronaldinho can still be if he has the desire, Brazil eclipsed Italy, 2-0, in a friendly match before an audience of 60,000 at Arsenal's London stadium. It was samba on a frigid night.
The game featured the same color combination - one team in golden yellow, the other in blue - as with Australia and Japan. Yet so fluid was the Brazil display, so appealing to the eye, that it looked like a different game, on a different planet, from the dull stalemate played out in Japan.
Television brings as many of the games to us as we have time to consume. When Brazil shows off like this, on a pitch that is world-class to complement the flair of its players, we wonder why Dunga, the present Brazil national coach, constrains his men on other occasions. Italy had almost a full squad of its finest players, yet couldn't come near to disrupting Brazil's rhythm.
The French suffered similar problems with Lionel Messi. He carried his Barcelona club form into Argentina's 2-0 victory in Marseille, and after Messi scored a marvellous solo goal, the home crowd of Frenchmen stood in applause to his talents. Diego Maradona - his countryman, coach and, in his time, fellow genius - praised Messi's quality, but also his work ethic.
In Seville, Spain demonstrated just why it won Euro 2008, and why England was not even in that tournament. A goal on the ground by David Villa, and one in the air from substitute Joseba Llorente, showed England what finishing is all about.
But the difference was in passing, awareness, movement. Even David Beckham, who earned another cheap cap as a second-half replacement and who was lucky to stay on the pitch after a wild tackle and a yellow card for dissent, came close to acknowledging that England had been outclassed.
On the night when he equaled the record of 108 appearances for England, Beckham also learned that American soccer is running out of patience with his feckless attitude. He is contracted to the Los Angeles Galaxy, but he wants now to break that contract so that he can play a higher grade of soccer, with AC Milan.
Don Garber, the commissioner of the Major League Soccer, on Wednesday gave an ultimatum to Beckham and Milan: Make the Galaxy an acceptable offer and take him, or send him back to California. The deadline Garber gave is Friday.
Ancelotti rules out Chelsea
Carlo Ancelotti of AC Milan says he has no intention of becoming Chelsea's manager, The Associated Press reported from Milan.
The London club fired Luiz Felipe Scolari on Monday, and has hired Russia coach Guus Hiddink as his replacement until the end of the season. Ancelloti has been considered Chelsea's top choice to take over full-time. "The only club that has made a move to sign me has been Chelsea," Ancelotti was quoted Thursday by La Stampa as saying. He added, "I am not thinking about leaving."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/12/news/CUP.php
With goals from Elano and Robinho, with a stunning reminder of how great Ronaldinho can still be if he has the desire, Brazil eclipsed Italy, 2-0, in a friendly match before an audience of 60,000 at Arsenal's London stadium. It was samba on a frigid night.
The game featured the same color combination - one team in golden yellow, the other in blue - as with Australia and Japan. Yet so fluid was the Brazil display, so appealing to the eye, that it looked like a different game, on a different planet, from the dull stalemate played out in Japan.
Television brings as many of the games to us as we have time to consume. When Brazil shows off like this, on a pitch that is world-class to complement the flair of its players, we wonder why Dunga, the present Brazil national coach, constrains his men on other occasions. Italy had almost a full squad of its finest players, yet couldn't come near to disrupting Brazil's rhythm.
The French suffered similar problems with Lionel Messi. He carried his Barcelona club form into Argentina's 2-0 victory in Marseille, and after Messi scored a marvellous solo goal, the home crowd of Frenchmen stood in applause to his talents. Diego Maradona - his countryman, coach and, in his time, fellow genius - praised Messi's quality, but also his work ethic.
In Seville, Spain demonstrated just why it won Euro 2008, and why England was not even in that tournament. A goal on the ground by David Villa, and one in the air from substitute Joseba Llorente, showed England what finishing is all about.
But the difference was in passing, awareness, movement. Even David Beckham, who earned another cheap cap as a second-half replacement and who was lucky to stay on the pitch after a wild tackle and a yellow card for dissent, came close to acknowledging that England had been outclassed.
On the night when he equaled the record of 108 appearances for England, Beckham also learned that American soccer is running out of patience with his feckless attitude. He is contracted to the Los Angeles Galaxy, but he wants now to break that contract so that he can play a higher grade of soccer, with AC Milan.
Don Garber, the commissioner of the Major League Soccer, on Wednesday gave an ultimatum to Beckham and Milan: Make the Galaxy an acceptable offer and take him, or send him back to California. The deadline Garber gave is Friday.
Ancelotti rules out Chelsea
Carlo Ancelotti of AC Milan says he has no intention of becoming Chelsea's manager, The Associated Press reported from Milan.
The London club fired Luiz Felipe Scolari on Monday, and has hired Russia coach Guus Hiddink as his replacement until the end of the season. Ancelloti has been considered Chelsea's top choice to take over full-time. "The only club that has made a move to sign me has been Chelsea," Ancelotti was quoted Thursday by La Stampa as saying. He added, "I am not thinking about leaving."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/12/news/CUP.php
Monday, January 26, 2009
Soccer-Ronaldinho recalled by Brazil, Amauri overlooked
Ronaldinho, dropped by Brazil last year following a loss of form, has been recalled by coach Dunga for next month's friendly against Italy in London.
However, there was still no place for Juventus striker Amauri who is embroiled in a controversy over whether he should play for his native Brazil or for Italy, where he has spent most of his career.
Dunga said he was spoilt for choice when it came to choosing forwards.
"We have got Luis Fabiano, who has hit a purple patch, Adriano, Pato, who was in the Olympic team, and Robinho, who has been a regular for a while," Dunga told reporters.
"I have all these to choose from so anyone else is going to have to wait his moment.
"Amauri is a good player and I've been watching him. But in his last two games, maybe because of all the fuss, he hasn't done so well."
Amauri, 28, is applying for an Italian passport and had previously said he would like to play for the world champions if he continues to be overlooked by his home country.
He has scored 11 Serie A goals this season after joining from Palermo.
Forward Ronaldinho, who has been inconsistent for AC Milan, was left out of Brazil's last three games following a dismal display in their goalless draw at home to Bolivia in September.
He missed the World Cup qualifiers against Venezuela and Colombia in October and the friendly against Portugal in November.
The squad also included a call-up for uncapped Fiorentina midfielder Felipe Melo.
Forward Adriano, banned for three domestic matches on Monday for punching an opponent during an Italian Serie A game on Sunday, was also included.
Brazil face the Italians at Arsenal's Emirates stadium on Feb. 10, the first meeting between the two sides since a 3-3 draw in France in 1997 and only the second since the 1994 World Cup final which Brazil won on penalties after a 0-0 draw.
Goalkeeper: Doni (AS Roma), Julio Cesar (Inter Milan)
Defenders: Daniel Alves (Barcelona), Adriano Correia (Sevilla), Maicon (Inter Milan), Marcelo (Real Madrid), Lucio (Bayern Munich), Luis¿o (Benfica), Juan (AS Roma), Thiago Silva (AC Milan)
Midfielders: Anderson (Manchester United), Gilberto Silva (Panathinaikos), Felipe Melo (Fiorentina), Josue (VfL Wolfsburg), Elano (Manchester City), Julio Baptista (AS Roma), Kaka (AC Milan), Ronaldinho (AC Milan)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/footballNews/idUKN2639223320090126?sp=true
However, there was still no place for Juventus striker Amauri who is embroiled in a controversy over whether he should play for his native Brazil or for Italy, where he has spent most of his career.
Dunga said he was spoilt for choice when it came to choosing forwards.
"We have got Luis Fabiano, who has hit a purple patch, Adriano, Pato, who was in the Olympic team, and Robinho, who has been a regular for a while," Dunga told reporters.
"I have all these to choose from so anyone else is going to have to wait his moment.
"Amauri is a good player and I've been watching him. But in his last two games, maybe because of all the fuss, he hasn't done so well."
Amauri, 28, is applying for an Italian passport and had previously said he would like to play for the world champions if he continues to be overlooked by his home country.
He has scored 11 Serie A goals this season after joining from Palermo.
Forward Ronaldinho, who has been inconsistent for AC Milan, was left out of Brazil's last three games following a dismal display in their goalless draw at home to Bolivia in September.
He missed the World Cup qualifiers against Venezuela and Colombia in October and the friendly against Portugal in November.
The squad also included a call-up for uncapped Fiorentina midfielder Felipe Melo.
Forward Adriano, banned for three domestic matches on Monday for punching an opponent during an Italian Serie A game on Sunday, was also included.
Brazil face the Italians at Arsenal's Emirates stadium on Feb. 10, the first meeting between the two sides since a 3-3 draw in France in 1997 and only the second since the 1994 World Cup final which Brazil won on penalties after a 0-0 draw.
Goalkeeper: Doni (AS Roma), Julio Cesar (Inter Milan)
Defenders: Daniel Alves (Barcelona), Adriano Correia (Sevilla), Maicon (Inter Milan), Marcelo (Real Madrid), Lucio (Bayern Munich), Luis¿o (Benfica), Juan (AS Roma), Thiago Silva (AC Milan)
Midfielders: Anderson (Manchester United), Gilberto Silva (Panathinaikos), Felipe Melo (Fiorentina), Josue (VfL Wolfsburg), Elano (Manchester City), Julio Baptista (AS Roma), Kaka (AC Milan), Ronaldinho (AC Milan)
http://uk.reuters.com/article/footballNews/idUKN2639223320090126?sp=true
Friday, July 18, 2008
Soccer-Milan's Ronaldinho excited to play with Kaka
Brazil forward Ronaldinho said he was mostly looking forward to teaming up again with compatriot Kaka as he was unveiled as an AC Milan player on Thursday.
The San Siro was almost half full to welcome the 28-year-old, who wore a Milan kit as he waved to the crowd from the pitch.
Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti has said the former Barcelona man will probably play alongside Kaka in a Christmas tree formation with a main striker just ahead of them.
It is not just the Rossoneri fans and their coach drooling over the idea.
"I will be exciting to play with Kaka. He is among the best in the world. He is also a friend, in the national team we play well together," said Ronaldinho, who unlike Kaka is being allowed by the club to play at next month's Olympics.
"Every player dreams of playing for Milan. It is a special emotion and I hope to bring happiness to all the fans."
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldFootballNews/idUKL1725037620080717
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