The last goodbye: When mid-30s Ronaldinho cemented his legacy

With Ronaldinho on a mission to destroy both his legacy and his fortune, it’s very easy to forget his brilliant late-career renaissance in his native Brazil.

In July 2018, two-time Ballon d’Or winner Ronaldinho put his name to a new cryptocurrency: the Ronaldinho Soccer Coin.

Promising world-changing football projects and charity initiatives, the RSC was set to go on sale in August 2018. As of today, however, the listing of the digital currency remains delayed.

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“Please be rest assured that the project is making progress,” organisers said in April 2019.

You can read all about the Ronaldinho Soccer Coin here, complete with pictures of its strangely residential-looking headquarters in a Maltese suburb.

But you don’t really need to.

The RSC has been, quite obviously, one of several career missteps taken by Ronaldinho since his heyday at Barcelona.

His AC Milan adventure had its ups and downs, his international career diminished earlier than expected, and many observers have — with some justification — rued the wasting of one of football’s greatest talents.

Things have hardly improved for the former player in recent times. In November 2018, reports circulated that he was on the verge of bankruptcy.

Occasionally lost in the madness of Ronaldinho’s life and career, however, is his last great hurrah in the game: a two-year spell with Atletico Mineiro in Brazil that reaped trophies and personal honours of the highest calibre.

At 33, the Brazilian legend was the best player in South America.

Forget the cryptocurrency. Forget the bankruptcy.