With Milan, he won the Coppa Italia and the Champions League in the 2002 03 season. In🫰 August 2003, he also won the UEFA Super Cup before cancelling his contract with Milan in November that year. After🫰 leaving Milan, he briefly returned to Brazil, playing for Cruzeiro in Belo Horizonte.

He had endured a strained relationship with manager Louis van Gaal during Barcelona's🫰 trophyless 1999-00 season but appeared to have won the battle of wills when the Dutchman left at the end of🫰 the campaign. When Van Gaal was re-appointed in 2002, Barcelona agreed to rescind Rivaldo's contract.