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Old 06-28-2006, 07:51 PM
Iplayboard Iplayboard is offline
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Default Is Brazil Best Utilizing Ronaldinho?

In the World Cup pool that I am in I picked Ronaldinho to be the Golden Boot winner (0 goals). He also went off as the oddsmakers' favorite (7-1).

However after watching Brazil's first 4 games I believe the role that Brazil has him playing makes him unlikely to get many goals. They have him playing as almost a withdrawn midfielder behind two strikers. He has had a few opportunities (like the one Cafu should have fed him) but not many. In contrast Ronaldinho's club team plays him as a second striker, and in my opinion gives him much more of opportunity to freelance. Ronaldino is most effective when he isn't playing a defined role and when he has more space to create.

While he isn't playing out of this world, Ronaldino is still having a good tournament in this role: setting up his teammates and playing deadly balls to Ronaldo and Adriano over the top of the defense. Also, part of the problem is that Brazil is loaded with so many stars up front that dropping Ronaldinho back into the mid-field might be the only good way to get all of the them onto the field.

That being said, what is the best way for Brazil to take advantage of the most dynamic player on the planet?
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