On Sunday afternoon, Ronaldinho was unveiled as a Flamengo player at the age of 35.
Since 2011, the playmaker has been plying his trade in his native Brazil and Mexico, yet it was during a five-year stint at Barcelona where he truly made his stamp on club football.
As he prepares for a new adventure with the eighth club of his career, Sports Mole has selected five of the best goals that the two-time FIFA World Player of the Year scored while at the Camp Nou.
5. Real Madrid (November 2005)
Such was the standard of performance that Ronaldinho produced at the Bernabeu, many supporters of Real Madrid - Barcelona's most bitterest of rivals - stood to applaud the Brazilian. He scored twice in a 3-0 victory, the first of which was particularly memorable. Having accelerated away from a sliding Sergio Ramos, Ronaldinho cut inside a wrong-footed Ivan Helgura, before sending a low shot inside Iker Casillas's near post as the Madrid goalkeeper anticipated an effort across the face of his goal.
4. Osasuna (February 2004)
For much of the 2003-04 La Liga campaign, Barcelona's position in the top four and subsequently their place in the following season's Champions League was under threat. But, this winner against Osasuna lifted Barca into fourth spot and from that moment onwards the going was much smoother. When Edgar Davids drilled the ball back into the home side's penalty area, there was still plenty for Ronaldinho to do. Yet, he made light work of lifting the ball over Alfredo and then smashing a volley into the bottom corner of the net. It secured a first victory for Barca away in Osasuna for some 10 years.
3. Chelsea (March 2005)
Barcelona may have exited the Champions League to their Premier League counterparts in this round-of-16 encounter, but Ronaldinho was still able to contribute one of the competition's best ever goals. Twenty yards from goal and with Ricardo Carvalho in close proximity, Barca's number 10 shimmied, dummied and faked all on the spot to open up just enough space for him to toe-poke a shot beyond a rooted Petr Cech in the home goal.
2. Villarreal (November 2006)
Barcelona have scored a number of memorable goals against Villarreal in recent years, but few have been better than this one from Ronaldinho, who earlier in the game had fired in his 50th league for the club. The chest control from a trademark Xavi cross forced Ronaldinho away from the target, but rather than allow the ball to drop, he instead took virtually everyone by surprise with an acrobatic overhead kick that whistled into the roof of the away side's net.
1. Sevilla (September 2003)
If Ronaldinho was feeling any pressure on his home La Liga debut in Barcelona colours, he certainly didn't show it. Having inherited possession just inside his own half, Ronaldinho - with his famous long hair bobbing around wildly - proceeded forward with haste. Now deep into Sevilla territory, he danced away from Jose Luis Marti and Francisco Casquero before he lashed a thunderbolt shot past visiting goalkeeper Antonio Notario and in off the underside of the crossbar. All in all, it wasn't a bad way for Ronaldinho to open his Barcelona account following a summer switch from Paris Saint-Germain.
Liam Apicella
