Ronaldinho spent two seasons with Paris Saint-Germain from 2001 to 2003 before moving to FC Barcelona. Despite having the talented Brazil international, the capital club didn’t win a trophy during his two seasons in the French capital.
In a live stream on Twitter, former PSG goalkeeper Jérôme Alonzo discussed Ronaldinho’s time in Paris. The 48-year-old touched on the feeling he had when his teammate departed from Les Parisiens.
Alonzo mentioned how despite having a talented squad during Ronaldinho’s two years with PSG, it felt like wasted years because they have nothing to show for Ronaldinho’s time.
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Jérôme Alonzo revient sur son dernier moment avec Ronaldinho au #PSG après la défaite contre Auxerre en finale de CDF 2003
🎙“La dernière vision que j’ai de Ronnie, c’est de le voir assis entre deux voitures en train de pleurer.”#TeamPSG pic.twitter.com/de6OdNuiL5
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“I remember we hugged in the parking lot, and I wanted to complain, too. We said to ourselves that we had missed something; we felt it. Because we were very close, we loved each other a lot, really, and the last words I said to him was ‘damn, we didn’t win anything,” Alonzo said.
“I will remember all my life I left this restaurant, and the last sight I have of Ronnie is that he is sitting between two cars crying. I said to myself, we are all idiots, there were two years to win everything, and we won nothing, not even a cup final.”
The capital club had quality players alongside Ronaldinho in Jay-Jay Okacho, Nicolas Anelka, Mauricio Pochettino, Gabriel Heinze, and others. Nonetheless, the short window this time had to win trophies didn’t come to fruition.
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