Coaching job doesn’t excite Brazilian great Ronaldo
BY ARMSTRONG VAS Doha: Brazil’s football great three-time FIFA Player of the Year award winner Ronaldo is not interested in a coaching role with any football club in the near future, including that of his former club Spanish giants Read Madrid. “Although I enjoy good relations with the president of Real Madrid I have no plans to be the director of the club or to be the manager or coach of the club,” the 35-year-old said yesterday. Ronaldo is in Doha promote the “Showball Tournament” which is to be held in April 2012. He did not spell out his future plans while speaking at Katara, The Cultural Village Foundation yesterday. The ace striker from Brazil played five seasons at Real Madrid during which he scored 83 goals in 127 matches. In a club career spanning 18 years, he also turned out for Inter-Milan and AC Milan. The Brazilian, who started his club career at Cruzeiro in 1993-94 season retired with Corinthians this year, after a string of serious injuries which troubled him throu...