Ronaldinho scores stunning free-kick aged 44 as Barcelona legend proves he’s still got it in El Clasico Legends game

BARCELONA fable Ronaldinho has rolled backmost the years aft scoring a stunning free-kick successful an El Clasico accumulation match.

The 44-year-old shared the transportation with Luis Figo, Clarence Seedorf, erstwhile Arsenal striker Julio Baptista and Rivaldo successful Qatar connected Thursday.

Barca went 1-0 up aboriginal connected done Juan Pablo Sorin, earlier winning a free-kick from astir 22 yards out.

Naturally, Ronaldinho stepped up and curled a beauteous right-footed effort into the apical near country past ex-keeper Francisco Buyo.

But the erstwhile Madrid stopper - who is, it indispensable beryllium said, 66 years aged - had nary anticipation of reaching it.

The Brazilian World Cup victor doubled Barca's pb wrong 15 minutes.

But the Catalans couldn't replicate the 4-0 pasting the existent flock imposed connected Carlo Ancelotti's Madrid past month.

The Madrid Legends yet recovered a mode backmost into the game, which went connected to extremity 2-2 successful Qatar.

Former Portugal winger and Ballon d'Or victor Figo, who played for some sides successful his prime, brought 1 backmost for Madrid successful the 2nd half.

And Edwin Congo's debased decorativeness successful the 63rd infinitesimal levelled the score.

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It was Jose Mourinho's aged foe Frank De Boer who fumbled the walk to enactment Congo successful a one-on-one with the keeper.

Barca had a accidental to triumph the crippled precocious connected from the punishment spot, but Kluivert's effor was saved by substitute keeper Pedro Contreras.

But Ronaldinho went onto people successful the punishment shootout afterwards.

As did Figo, Congo and Sorin arsenic the Catalan's edged the shootout 4-2.

Meanwhile, Ronaldinho's most famous free-kick was the effort helium floated implicit England's David Seaman astatine the 2002 World Cup.

Ronaldinho's lad Joao Mendes joined Burnley's under-21 squad this summer.

The 19-year-old midfielder had antecedently been astatine Barca's La Masia younker academy.

Mendes astir precocious featured successful Burnley's 5-0 triumph implicit Luton Town's under-21s past Friday.

His begetter won the World Cup successful 2002 and the Champions League with Barcelona successful 2006, and was awarded the Ballon d'Or successful 2005.

The legends volition play successful different El Clasico earlier the extremity of the year, and the 2 halves past 40 minutes each.