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Brazil Manager Dunga Says No to Ronaldinho and Ronaldo

by armchairsports | May 21, 2009 at 02:12 pm

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Going against popular demand, but maybe in favor of current form and tactics, Brazilian National Team Coach Dunga has left stars Ronaldinho and Ronaldo out of the squad's upcoming matches in South Africa. Ronaldinho has clearly struggled all season and Ronaldo's recent resurgence would have made him a sentimental choice ahead of the selected Pato or Milmar after having several troubled seasons.

Dunga has not included Ronaldinho or Ronaldo in his Brazil squad for next month's World Cup Qualifiers or the Confederations Cup this summer.

The AC Milan midfielder has been out of form for club and country lately and earlier this year he was only amongst the substitutes in the game with Peru.

Ronaldo on the other hand has been rediscovering his old self again since his return to Corinthians and has been scoring freely in Brazil.

Despite calls for him to be chosen by Dunga the coach has not selected him though and he will have to wait for a chance to return to the team.

The selected squad:

Goalkeepers: Julio Cesar (Inter Milan), Gomes (Tottenham Hotspur), Victor (Gremio)

Defenders: Maicon (Inter Milan), Daniel Alves (Barcelona), Alex (Chelsea), Juan (AS Roma), Lucio (Bayern Munich), Luisao (Benfica), Kleber (Internacional), Andre Santos (Corinthians).

Midfielders: Anderson (Manchester United), Gilberto Silva (Panathinaikos), Josue (VfL Wolfsburg), Ramires (Cruzeiro), Elano (Manchester City), Felipe Melo (Fiorentina), Julio Baptista (AS Roma), Kaka (AC Milan)

Forwards: Alexandre Pato (AC Milan), Luis Fabiano (Sevilla), Nilmar (Internacional), Robinho (Manchester City).

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JeffHuang

at 07:35 on May 22nd, 2009

Wow. No to Ronaldinho?

Arnaldo (not verified)

at 10:16 on May 28th, 2009

Ronaldo is on form now, look at how he scores in corinthians he is strong and fast and accurate please dunga keep him he is the legend..

mabye the unknown but i am very close to brazil (not verified)

at 07:58 on June 14th, 2009

I really dont know how dunga think but i have seen many brazil matches more than you dunga but i have seen the last 10 games that brazil won, but not the real samba (brazil) dunga right you are winning but in world cup your team can not cotinue to q.final or before pls dunga read this message becuase it will make change you dunga are so lucky you are the brazil coach just play your role right you need ronaldo my wish i see ronaldo just to tell him you are a hero becuase he made a team called brazil look give him a try to play acctually becuase fabiano and all the forward in brazil cant make the legend ronaldo ( the goal keepers nightmare) look maybe you wont give this message any importance just I believe that you can make ronaldo play. and think that you are ronaldo you are playing hard for playing in brazil and the coach says no I think you will kill yourself pls contact me dunga!!!!!!! ( ahhh i miss the samba that you were playing in the team before becoming a coach).