Ronaldinho follows the wind

A Ronaldinho documentary yields a lesson about non-attachment. First, a head start Juan hadn’t known: Ronaldinho came from a football family, his older brother already a pro who taught him while he was small, so he never learned the game from zero, a real advantage ▸ 31:52. Then the arc that surprised him. Juan had assumed Ronaldinho crashed and burned, the tabloid version, women and missed trainings, the story seeming to end. But the truth is he conquered nearly everything in Europe and came back to Brazil by his own choice, missing home, not because he was washed up, which is the usual reason a player returns ▸ 36:02.

nunca se aferró; deixa a vida me levar, y por ahí vino el éxito →

The Flamengo saga is pure wind. A Milan representative, at a farewell interview, said “in Brazil I’m Flamengo” because of the shared red-and-black colors, a throwaway line that snowballed into a rumor big enough to pull Ronaldinho to Flamengo, and he simply let it, “pues bueno, me tocó” ▸ 37:14. Then Atlético Mineiro, a team of rejects nobody wanted, twenty-plus years without a Libertadores, and he took them to the title, loyal to their fans to the end. The thread Juan pulls is that Ronaldinho followed the Tao, “deixa a vida me levar”, to wherever the wind carried him, never clinging to a club or a plan, and the success seemed to come from exactly that non-attachment ▸ 38:19…