Brazil's football legend, Ronaldo to study in the UK

The former Brazil star, who retired two years ago, plans to study
advertising at a marketing communications company in the UK.


Ronaldo scored 62 goals for Brazil before retiring with health
problems. The former Brazilian international footballer Ronaldo is
moving to the UK to study advertising.


The 36-year-old, full name Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima, is expected
to arrive in March, and could stay in Britain for two years or more.
The striker, who played for Brazil in 98 international matches,
scoring 62 goals, already has his own marketing agency called 9ine.


Ronaldo, who retired from football in February 2011, told Brazil's
Meio e Mensagem newspaper: "I feel a great need to become a student.
"I've learned a lot, travelling, living abroad, just in the school of life."


His company teamed up with marketing communications firm WPP in
Brazil, and its UK branch is expected to work with the player on his
arrival in Britain.


Ronaldo, who suffered a number of injuries during his football career,
gave up the sport as he was experiencing ongoing pain and problems
with his thyroid gland.
He added: "Eighteen years have passed and I've hardly studied, but I
have to immerse myself in something. I'll ask questions all the time -
just like a striker."


In 2007, Ronaldo was named one of the best players of all time by
France Football and was named in the Fifa 100 - a list of the greatest
footballers compiled by fellow Brazilian Pele.
But in April 2008 it emerged that he had taken three transvestite
prostitutes back to his room after visiting a nightclub in Rio de
Janeiro.


Ronaldo's engagement to Maria Beatriz Antony was cancelled in the wake
of the scandal. But it later resumed and she went on to give birth to
their first daughter on December 24 that year.