{"id":4937,"date":"2009-04-25T15:43:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T20:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=4937"},"modified":"2009-04-25T15:43:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T20:43:18","slug":"sally-sopranodiego-primadonna-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2009\/04\/sally-sopranodiego-primadonna-for-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Sally Soprano\/Diego Primadonna for Real"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If negotiation professors ever need to argue to their students that their negotiation scenarios are realistic, here is a nice article to share.\u00a0\u00a0A few\u00a0weeks ago,\u00a0the Wall Street Journal<\/em> covered the story of Ronaldo<\/a>, the Brazilian soccer star, who is interested in making a comeback.\u00a0 The truth is remarkably similar to the case of Diega Primadonna, offered as a negotiation case\u00a0in\u00a0our\u00a0casebook on dispute resolution, and similar to the case of\u00a0Sally Soprano, offered by the Program on Negotiation and other textbooks.\u00a0 Aging star, sidelined by injury, returns to game with creative contract to meet both parties’ needs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In March, after 384 days off the field, Ronaldo entered a soccer stadium again, this time wearing the shirt of S\u00e3o Paulo’s Corinthians for a match in an agricultural town of 95,000 deep in Brazil’s interior. Despite lumbering back some 20 pounds overweight, Ronaldo has scored five goals in seven appearances and tapped into a huge fan base in a nation where soccer is called a second religion. There’s already talk about putting the striker back on Brazil’s national team.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo plays for the Corinthians on Tuesday in Brazil.\u00a0 The rough-and-tumble Brazilian leagues may look to be a huge step down for Ronaldo, who once stayed in five-star hotels from London to Istanbul. But by the accounts of those close to him, the 32-year-old, whose full name is Ronaldo Lu\u00eds Naz\u00e1rio de Lima, is living a fairy-tale rebound that could happen only in his home country.<\/p>\n

The striker’s greatest moment of glory came playing for Brazil in the 2002 World Cup, when he scored twice against Germany’s almost unbeatable goalkeeper Oliver Khan to take the title.<\/p>\n

Knee injuries have three times upset Ronaldo’s career. In 2000, he snapped a right-knee tendon, sidelining him for over a year. Last February, his other knee gave in during a match in Italy, and the striker rolled on the ground in tears.\u00a0 According to Ronaldo’s doctor, Joaquim Grava, Ronaldo’s injury, known as a patellar tendon rupture, is rare but curable with surgery and 10 months of rest. Returning to soccer, says Dr. Grava, is a matter of willpower and grueling therapy.<\/p>\n

According to his agent, by last fall Ronaldo was on the mend and entertaining multimillion-dollar offers from the sort of up-and-coming teams in Europe and the Persian Gulf who are always interested in marquee names — even old and bruised ones.<\/p>\n

In an unexpected turn, Corinthians made an offer to keep Ronaldo in Brazil. Corinthians couldn’t afford a European-size salary. The club pays him $175,000 a month (still a huge fee by Brazilian standards) and sweetened the deal by sharing sponsorship earnings, and giving Ronaldo 50% of ticket sales from any foreign matches.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is this a fairy tale or a good negotiation lesson all around?<\/p>\n

Cross posted at Indisputably<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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