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 throughout his career took its toll.
The six feet striker had the uncanny ability to score goals and to be at the right place at the right.
He scored 62 goals at the international level in 97 matches. During the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Ronaldo became the highest goal scorer in the history of the World Cup with his fifteenth goal, surpassing Gerd Müller’s previous record of 14.
He was also part of the Brazilian squad that won the 1994 and 2002 World Cups.
He was also member of the team which lost 3-0 to hosts France in the final of the 1998 edition.  
Ronaldo who is the only player to have won the World Cup Golden Ball and Golden Shoe in separate tournaments suffered a convulsive fit on the night before the final, and although he played in the final he was nowhere near his best. At the club level he ended his career scoring 247 goals in 343 matches.
Qatar fans will get a chance to sample his midas touch and the players of his generation during the “Showball Tournament”, an event for veteran players.
“Former national players from Brazil, Italy, France and Portugal will be playing in the tournament. I will play provided my legs allow me,” informed the former ace striker who features in FIFA 100, a list of the greatest footballers compiled by fellow countryman Pelé.
Hosts Qatar will also be taking part in the tournament, informed Ronaldo, who was given a farewell match by CBF after he announced his retirement from football.
Considering the extraordinary career of Ronaldo CBF announced that he will be given one last match for Brazil, five years after his last match with the national team.
It is almost unheard of in international football for players to be given farewell matches for their national side.
A friendly against Romania was held in São Paulo on June 7 this year were Ronaldo had his last hurrah while representing his nation.
The Peninsula

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