Ricardo Kaká 🎩

Keertan Salian
3 min readDec 5, 2020

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Ricardo Kaka, Brazilian Professional footballer who played as an attacking. His performance as a playmaker was out of the charts at AC MILAN. His passing skills and dribbling skills were considered to be the best. He was the first footballer to win the Ballon d'Or in the reign of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. He is one of the eight players who have won the FIFA World Cup, The UEFA Champions League and the Ballon d'Or.
His youth career was at São Paulo. He marked his first senior career debut in 2001 for São Paulo. In 2003 he left São Paulo for AC Milan where he got famous for his passing skills and vision.

After six years at AC Milan Kaka left Milan for Real Madrid making him the second-highest transfer fee at the time (€67million). In Spain sadly after four injury trouble seasons at Real Madrid, he returned to Milan for a single season in 2014, before joining MLS side Orlando City. He returned to his former club São Paulo on loan before relocating to the United States in 2015 and retiring in 2017 at Orlando City.
Kaka made his national debut for Brazil in 2002. He was in the team of 2005 and 2009 FIFA confederations Cup-winning squads and won the Golden Ball Award in 2009 as the best player of the tournament.

Between 2009 and 2006 he was named in both FIFA World XI and UEFA Team of the year three times. In 2010, he was named in AC Milan Hall of Fame.

At the age of 18, Ricardo Kaka suffered a career-threatening incident and he could have possibly paralysis-inducing spinal fracture as a result of a swimming pool accident. He then made a speedy recovery.

Ricardo Kaka was the first one to win Ballon d’Or in the era of Ronaldo and Messi. Kaká has won The Best FIFA Men’s Player. One time Top Scorer in 06/07 scoring 10 goals. 3 times Player Of The Year. 2 times Footballer Of The Year. One FIFA World Cup Winner for Brazil in 2002. One time UEFA Champions League for AC Milan in 06/07 season. One time Spanish Champion for Real Madrid in 11/12 season. One time Spanish Cup Winner 10/11. One time Spanish Super Cup Winner in 12/13 season for Real Madrid. One Italian Champion in 03/04 for AC Milan. One time Italian Super Cup Winner for AC Milan in 04/05 season. One time FIFA Club World Cup Winner in 2007 for AC Milan. 2 times Confederations Cup Winner in 2005 and 2009 for Brazil and One time UEFA Supercup Winner for AC Milan in 07/08 season

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