The AC Milan today confirmed Monday that its new Brazilian player, Ronaldinho, this season will carry the number 80 shirt in "rossonera."The exjugador FC Barcelona, twice world best player of the year, chose that number because it indicates the year of his birth.
Ronaldinho normally carried the number 10, but the team Lombard is already occupied by the Dutch Clarence Seedorf, and the vice president, Adriano Galliani, said that nobody would force another player to relinquish his jersey number.
"Never ask a player who gave his number and we will not do so this time," said Galliani.
"It would have been a lack of respect. The 10 Seedorf is, what has and has tried to convince anyone that it was left to Ronaldinho ", he said.
The sports brand Adidas said they had already received 11,000 requests for shirts from Ronaldinho after its signing by the Italian club.
