Before Ronaldinho made the big-money switch to Barcelona, the silky Brazilian was tearing shit up in Ligue 1 and his former teammate at Paris Saint-Germain has revealed how he only trained once a week because of his wild party lifestyle.
Jerome Leroy played alongside Ronaldinho from 2001-2003 before heading to the Nou Camp, and the Frenchman has detailed his partying ways by barely training ahead of match day.
"Ronaldinho didn't train any day of the week and would just turn up on a Friday for the game on Saturday. Think he was trying to follow in the steps of Romario, who would also go out every night, but he didn't have the same success."
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Leroy continues by adding a theory which Joe Rogan preaches. At a real high level of anything, there's a certain amount of almost crazy behavior to get to this incredible position, there's a madness."Players with great talent like (Ronaldinho), they're a bit crazy."
Even when he did turn up, he'd head straight for a good ol' massage! "Every morning he'd come in with sunglasses. He'd get changed and he's go straight to the massage bed to sleep."
The former Ballon d'Or winner would eventually go onto win just the coveted UEFA Intertoto Cup at his time in Parc des Princes, though held aloft the La Liga title and Champions Leagues with the Catalan giants.
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