"At that time, my father went to Brazil for vacation. But as luck would have it, he stumbled upon a kid absolutely wrecking everyone else on the court. When he called me and said, 'You won't believe this kid,' describing what he had seen, I immediately told him to bring the kid over. Honestly, I didn't even think about it; my brain just screamed, Sign him before someone else does.
Of course, he would never tell her that the moment I heard the name Ronaldinho, he already knew who he was.
"And to be clear, it wasn't me who first brought him to England. Nope, it was my father. But the moment he turned 16, I recruited him on the spot. Unlike Ronaldo, who had long been tracked and signed from Cruzeiro, Ronaldinho suddenly appeared on the scene while he was rising to prominence—and naturally, became a target for many."
