Flowers for the lady? Johanna Almgren (right) claims
Ronaldinho proposed to her
Ronaldinho became so besotted with a Swedish footballer
that he proposed within hours of meeting her at the Beijing
Olympics, she claims. The star-studded Brazil team shared the same
Beijing hotel as the Swedish women's representatives and Johanna
Almgren says she immediately caught the eye of the AC Milan
star.
'We rushed to the hotel foyer to collect autographs,' Almgren
told Swedish newspaper Bordas. 'Ronaldinho ignored all the
Chinese and walked straight towards me. He looked me deep in the
eyes, took my hand and kissed it. I almost fainted.'
But it seems the flirting didn't stop there. After going back to
her room, Almgren received a mysterious phone call. 'Somebody said
in broken English that he was calling on behalf of Ronaldinho.
Ronaldinho wanted me to come up to his room,' she said.
'Unfortunately he can't speak much English. My Spanish and
Portuguese are appalling and so the conversation consisted of
mostly sign language.'
But Ronaldinho, 28, soon called in help when he had decided what
he really wanted to say. 'An interpreter said that Ronaldinho asked
if I would like to marry him. I was shocked and immediately replied
no.'
After her team were knocked out by Germany in the
quarter-finals, 24-year-old Almgren headed home for a tricky
conversation with her boyfriend.
'I have my Adam here at home. Although it took some time to
placate him after I told him about the meeting with the
Brazilians.'
