Cristiano Ronaldo in Brazilian Club Football: Could It Really Happen?

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Published: January 23, 2015

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It was hard not to offer a wan smile at the thought of Cristiano Ronaldo pulling on a Flamengo or Corinthians shirt for anything other than for a trip down the supermarket, or, perhaps, in a charity kickabout of some description.

Indeed, perhaps he already has one, handed out as a gift during last year’s FIFA World Cup, hosted in Brazil. Of course, Ronaldo’s comments, reported in Metro earlier this week, that he would one day like to represent one of Brazil’s biggest clubs, surely had to just be a common courtesy.

The best player on the planet—hell, one of the greatest beasts any generation has ever seen—here? At this, or indeed any stage of his career? Why?

Ronaldo is 30 next month and, for the time being at least, his powers show no sign of waning. A move to Manchester United has consistently been mooted over the last 18 months, and certainly, remaining at the Bernabeu or returning to Old Trafford would be a far more attractive prospect than trotting out in front of a few thousand on bumpy pitches across Brazil against third-rate opposition.

It would be absolute denial to pretend that there is not anything but an enormous gap, not only in the technical quality, but the infrastructure, organisation, pitch quality and stadium atmosphere between Brazil and the kind of places Ronaldo, peacock like, is accustomed to strutting his admittedly awesome stuff.

A quick look at his most basic of numbers underline just what a freakish talent he is. Ronaldo has already netted 28 league goals this season, and has scored over 60 goals in each of the past four calendar years.

Were he to move to the Campeonato Brasileiro at this stage of his career it would be akin to Wayne Rooney fancying a little stint at Macclesfield Town. Indeed, the subject of the weakness of the Spanish league outside the “Big Two” has often been brought up as if to detract from Ronaldo&rs...
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