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Mon 09 Sep 2008Ronaldinho is an auld smoothie
PLANET SOCCER: ROMANCE OF the month? No contest: Ronaldinho and Swedish footballer Johanna Almgren, who met at the Olympic Games where Brazil and Sweden shared the same hotel.
"He ignored all the Chinese and walked straight towards me. He looked me deep in the eyes, took my hand and kissed it. I almost fainted," she said of their first meeting. An hour later. "An interpreter said that Ronaldinho asked if I would like to marry him. I was shocked and replied immediately: No!"
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