Ronaldinho's birthday today, the "Phenomenon" turns 30 and I am sure he will be bringing much joy to us for a few more years in the football realm :D.
ps: It is the 18th, not 22nd of September his birthday, his dad was only able to register him 4 days later due to lack of money.
Some numbers of his amazing career:
ANO-----JOGOS----GOLS
1993----29-------28
1994----58-------47
1995----49-------49
1996----38-------31
1997----80-------67
1998----53-------30
1999----36-------21
2000----1--------0
2001----13-------8
2002----35-------21
2003----67-------48
2004----61-------35
2005----48-------31
2006----23-------13
TOTAL: 591 games, 429 goals. Average of 0,72 goals per game.
He has only 4 goals less as a pro than Romário did at the same age (Romário has 977 goals and is second only to Pelé). Considering Ronaldo lost 2 years in his career due to those horrendous injury he's not doing bad at all
. He started his career pretty similar to Pelé but Pelé was already retiring from the national team at age 30 and had over 1.000 goals, but that's a different story.
Feliz aniversário!