Netflix Is Making a Documentary About the Most Entertaining Soccer Player of All-Time — and No, It’s Not Messi or Ronaldo

A new Netflix documentary series will tell the story of one of the greatest football players of all-time, Ronaldinho.

While the war will rage eternally over whether Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo is the best man to put his boots on a football pitch — for me, it’s quite easily the Argentinian — you’d be hard-pressed to find a more entertaining player in the history of the sport than Ronaldinho Gaúcho.

The Brazilian playmaker’s story is one of great ups and downs, including being part of a 2002 World Cup-winning team, lighting up the Nou Camp in a legendary Barcelona 11, and even spending time in a Paraguayan prison post-retirement. He also played for Paris Saint-Germain, AC Milan, and Flamengo. His peak may not have lasted for too long, but it was a flame that certainly burned bright.

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Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, to give him his full name, also has some video game connections, having appeared on the covers of FIFA 2004, 06, 07, 08, and 09. When you take into account his face being on the boxes of the Road to the FIFA World Cup, FIFA Street 1 and 3, as well as the Italian version of FIFA 10, he’s the player to appear on the most EA football game covers.

Titled Ronaldinho: The One and Only and launching on April 16, the three-part series will feature “never-before-seen material” as well as contributions from Messi, Neymar, Roberto Carlos, and many other footballing legends. I just hope they haven’t asked David Seaman for comment on that free-kick in Shizuoka.