Ronaldinho says Man City ready for Champions League challenge

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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Former Barcelona and Brazil striker Ronaldinho has backed Pep Guardiola to end his Champions League barren run and win the trophy with Manchester City.

"It's a very difficult competition, but he is a very good coach with a great team at his disposal so they can break through at any moment," Ronaldinho told Reuters in Budapest, where he was promoting teqball, a hybrid sport mixing football with table tennis.

Ronaldinho, now 39, said the pass-heavy style of play at Man City may be different from the spectacular individual efforts that marked his own career, but the English club are still"perennial contenders" and played beautiful football. Soon after he took the head coach position at Barcelona in 2008, Guardiola dropped Ronaldinho from the squad, ending what is widely considered the peak period of the Brazilian's career, which included guiding Barca to a Champions' League title.

Guardiola twice won the Champions League with Barcelona, but has also failed to win the trophy in subsequent stints at Bayern Munich and City.

 

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