Where the heck is Ronaldinho?

Somehow, Milan’s season can be compared to the one Dinho, as they call him in Italy, is having with his club. All the fuss regarding his arrival was directly related to Milan’s aspirations and ambitions, and those ambitions paid off at first, after the Brazilian fabulously fashioned the win over Inter. The shifty autumn came, everyone hoped the players will do their best to follow Dinho who really tried at the time. Latin American soap opera around Beckham and before that around Kaka and Manchester City have put football out of the focus, but Milan started descending at the same time when Ronaldinho started going down.

Only a coincidence? Is it fair to blame only one player for the entire poor season? Is Brazilian going to be the scapegoat  and the excuse for Milan’s premature end of season in March?

We could see something like that coming from Carlo Ancelotti. If we learnt anything from his eight-year adventure with Rossoneri, it’s that he really knows how to save his job. Ancelotti had seen many players come and go, and all the stress in this ungrateful job doesn’t get to him. It is not easy to be Milan manager, to fulfill Berlusconi’s wish to make everything a spectacle, accept Galliani’s deep, but closed wallet, in fact not many people can manage it. Ancelotti held all the ropes in his hands, but some of them seem to go lose.

Will Dinho go in flames with him?

We saw it in the interview Carlitto gave to French newspapers accusing Ronaldinho of poor work on the training grounds. According to the papers, Ancelotti told Brazilian he won’t play until he accepts that hard work is equally important as being talented.

All of this came at the same time with reports that Milan board had asked the Brazilian to step in for Kaka in Inter game and although injured he did. Still, that decision cost them losing Ronaldinho for the rest of the season. This game was crucial for Milan’s title race at the time and we can understand the decision to play him. In order to win a game of chess each man can go down except the king.

Now only a wasted peon in the lost season, everyone can point fingers at Ronaldinho blaming him for it all…

These are the laws of the modern football, despite both statistics and the impressions imply it would be a wrong thing to do. Whenever he played, Dinho was Milan’s best player. Even in those disgraceful defeats, like the one to Juventus, Brazilian was the only one who genuinely cared. Derby with Inter saw him being the only one to give rivals a tough ride, but whenever there is a choice between Beckham and Ronaldinho, Ancelotti makes a fuss about it which is complete bullocks. These are two wrong players to be chosen between. Englishman comes handy in defense and that’s a clear fact, and Ronaldinho is not a problem, Flamini is. Ancelotti insisted in bringing him as the worthy replacement for Gattuso which he completely failed to perform.

It is not fair to see Dinho pay the price for the manager incapable of creating the formation where one of the world’s top players can be utilized to the max. It is a bit unorthodox to see a coach blaming a player for the season that would be a lot worse hadn’t it been for him…

Good old Italian football, foreigners are guilty for everything…I think that Brazilian regrets not accepting Manchester City’s offer…summer might be the time to undo the wrong.

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