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Ronaldinho heads to Brazil after snubbing Blackburn

ESPNsoccernet staff
January 5, 2011
Ronaldinho is set to return to Gremio © PA Photos
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AC Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri has confirmed that Brazil forward Ronaldinho is set for a move back to Brazil.

Ronaldinho, 30, had been a ambitious target for Premier League side Blackburn but is close to joining hometown club Gremio, who he left in 2001 to move to Europe with Paris St-Germain.

Brazilian media outlet Radio Globo claimed the former Barcelona playmaker is in Rio De Janeiro to sign a three-and-a-half-year deal with the club.

And Allegri said at a press conference on Wednesday: "We are all sorry to lose a player of the quality of Ronaldinho. But he has made a life choice by going to Brazil.''

Ronaldinho's current contract with Milan expires at the end of the the season and, with the Rossoneri having already signed Antonio Cassano from Sampdoria this week, there is no space for the former two-time World Player of the Year in Allegri's line-up.

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