MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Brazil great Ronaldinho has signed with Italian Serie C club Ravenna at age 46, more than a decade after retiring.<\/p>\n
\u201cI cannot wait to dance with the ball,\u201d Ronaldinho said. \u201cFootball has always been joyful for me, and I\u2019m excited to bring that spirit to Ravenna. Let the magic begin!\u201d<\/p>\n
The Ravenna club is run by Ignazio Cipriani of the Cipriani restaurant brand.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Ronaldinho) was my idol growing up,\u201d Cipriani said at a presentation in Miami. \u201cI hope his involvement inspires a new generation of supporters to fall in love with Ravenna.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ronaldinho last played professionally for Fluminense in 2015. It will mark his second spell in Italy after featuring for AC Milan from 2008-11. He won the World Cup with Brazil in 2002 and the Ballon d\u2019Or in 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Brazil great Ronaldinho has signed with Italian Serie C club Ravenna at age 46, more than a decade after retiring. \u201cI cannot wait to dance with the ball,\u201d Ronaldinho said. \u201cFootball has always been joyful for me, and I\u2019m excited to bring that spirit to Ravenna. Let the magic begin!\u201d The Ravenna … Continue reading Ronaldinho says \u2018let the magic begin\u2019 after signing with Italian Serie C club Ravenna at age 46<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1452],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-06-26 11:10:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1518021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518022,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518021\/revisions\/1518022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1518021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1518021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1518021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}