Barcelona legend, Ronaldinho was subjected to a lot of jokes about Lionel Messi, Deco has said. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, everyone saw a player touched by God rise through Barcelona’s ranks to replace the great Ronaldinho, and it was clear that the torch was getting passed on.

Deco added that Messi was simply different from other youngsters at the club while he was coming up.
His words, “There are players who are touched by God and you see this from the beginning. It’s something different. We made a lot of jokes with Ronnie [Ronaldinho]. We told him that he would be Barca’s number 10 and that we would be watching him from the outside. We knew that he had the capacity to be something very big, but imagining everything he would do was impossible.”
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Futbol Club Barcelona is a professional football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of Spanish football.
Founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, Catalan, German, and English footballers led by Joan Gamper, the club has become a symbol of Catalan culture and Catalanism, hence the motto “Més que un club” (“More than a club”). Unlike many other football clubs, the supporters own and operate Barcelona. It is the third-most valuable sports team in the world, worth $5.51 billion, and the world’s fourth richest football club in terms of revenue, with an annual turnover of €582.1 million.
The official Barcelona anthem is the “Cant del Barça”, written by Jaume Picas and Josep Maria Espinàs. Barcelona traditionally play in dark shades of blue and garnet stripes, hence nicknamed Blaugrana.
In March 2021, Lionel Messi overtook Xavi’s record of 767 games played for the club, and presently has made 778 official appearances in all competitions, while also holding the record for the most appearances in La Liga matches for Barcelona, with 520.
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