{"id":959,"date":"2026-10-24T20:32:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T20:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/24\/ronaldinho-returns-to-football-with-italian-third-tier\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T20:32:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T20:32:51","slug":"ronaldinho-returns-to-football-with-italian-third-tier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/24\/ronaldinho-returns-to-football-with-italian-third-tier\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldinho returns to football with Italian third tier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"959\" height=\"632\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ronaldinho-returns-to-football-with-Italian-third-tier.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Ronaldinho\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Ronaldinho-returns-to-football-with-Italian-third-tier.jpg 959w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-370-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image-370-768x506.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brazil legend Ronaldinho will make his playing return aged 46 next month for Ravenna, the third-division Italian club announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2002 World Cup winner\u2019s move to Ravenna was announced in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is aiming to score his 300th career goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The former Paris Saint-Germain, Barcelona and AC Milan playmaker retired in 2015, 10 years on from claiming the Ballon d\u2019Or and has become a shareholder in Ravenna, situated between Venice and San Marino.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe wait now has a date: Sunday, November 15,\u201d Ravenna said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Brazilian legend will wear the Ravenna FC shirt in the derby against Forli.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAn event that will turn the eyes of the world toward the Bruno Benelli Stadium.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ravenna are second in Group B of the Italian third tier, six points below leaders Spezia and are aiming for a return to Serie B for the first time since 2008.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/10\/ronaldinho-returns-to-football-with-italian-third-tier\/\">Ronaldinho returns to football with Italian third tier<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil legend Ronaldinho will make his playing return aged 46 next month for Ravenna, the third-division Italian club announced on Saturday. The 2002 World Cup winner\u2019s move to Ravenna was&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}