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Forty thousand people turned up at the San Siro on Thursday to welcome Ronaldinho. AC Milan presented him in a glitzy ceremony, which was broadcast live on television and pulled few punches in terms of hype: fireworks, Brazilian dancing girls, freestyle ball jugglers and, of course, the new Messiah himself. Imagine Barnum and Bailey staging a revival meeting with Ronaldinho giving the sermon and you get the picture. In fact, the former Barcelona player did what he was paid to do: deliver converts to the “Rossoneri” church. Milan sold 10,000 season tickets in the 48 hours after his signing. Ronaldinho, dressed in his red and black kit (albeit with no number on the back; he wants No 10, but that belongs to Clarence Seedorf, who will not give it up, so the odds are he will settle for 11 or 20) stood around wide-eyed, flashing... [read full story]
