A look back at Brazil’s Ronaldinho, five years after what was supposed to be his greatest triumph:

That electric sequence of events — barely four seconds elapsed between Ronaldinho’s receiving and dispatching of the ball — captured, for the watching millions, one of soccer’s great truisms: the English invented the game, but the Brazilians perfected it. They found the game brick and left it marble. They patented what has become known the world over as jogo bonito, the beautiful game, a style of soccer that combines exuberance with success and that Ronaldinho, more than any other player alive, embodies.