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Futbol's Ronaldinho Retires

14:54 H | Topics: Sports

26 year old Brazilian futbol superestrella Ronaldinho has decided to hang up his soccer cleats. Currentky playing for Barcelona, he says he's had enough of all the pressure come from the media and has more than enough money to live the rest of his life well. He said:

Lo que hago no lo hago por el dinero. Empecé a jugar al fútbol porque era lo que más me gustaba, soñaba con jugar en Europa.

Some say that Ronaldinho never got over the World Cup loss.

GOTCHA!!!

Fear not futbol fans. Ronaldinho is not retiring. Seems like Univision was playing a joke (that I fell for too) in honor of Dia de los Santos Innocentes, a sort of Latin American April Fools. The holiday has its roots in Bibical legend, when according to the Bible all males under the age of two were ordered killed by King Herod in an effort to find Baby Jesus but according to Wikipedia:

En Perú, Bolivia, México, España, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay y otros países de habla hispana, es costumbre realizar bromas de toda índole. Los medios de comunicación hacen bromas o tergiversan su contenido de tal modo que la información parezca real. Se trata de una libertad que se dan los agentes mediáticos para dar rienda suelta a su sentido del humor, oportunidad que solamente tienen una vez al año. Es tradición que los periódicos publiquen páginas enteras de noticias cómicas, con la advertencia de que es día de los inocentes, que van desde las que son una obvia mofa a cualquier suceso reciente, hasta las que parecen serias y engañan al lector desprevenido.

Obviously this isn't a Rican tradition because I was fooled until I kept reading the Univision article which told me:

Caíste, Inocente, Inocente!

Duh

Via / Univision.com

Image Via / CatchRide.com

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