Cristiano Ronaldo rose to star at Manchester United, but it wasn’t easy for him at the beginning. Because at the beginning he was bullied by fellow players.
Mads Timm, a former professional at Manchester United, has leaked how difficult it is for today’s world star Cristiano Ronaldo (36, Juventus Turin) in his early days with the Red Devils.
The Dane revealed that CR7 had to deal with a kind of bullying of his teammates at the time. “Like me, he was bullied when he came to the club. He polarized with his haircut and his almost acrobatic style of play, with which he wanted to impress the coach,” quoted the Sun from Timm’s new book “Red Devil”.
That was not well received by the other players, who were called Phil Neville or Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at the time. “He was able to step over ten to fifteen before he went into dribbling,” continued Timm. Neville is said to have shouted in the episode: “Play it off, finally pass it off, damn it!”
Manchester United: Ronaldo “took on the fight and won”
However, this experience was also an incentive for the Portuguese to prove himself. “The special thing about Cristiano is that he immediately accepted the fight against the hierarchy. And he won it,” said the now 36-year-old Dane in his book. “He was completely different from the rest. He thought to himself: It’s me, Cristiano Ronaldo. CR7.”
The Portuguese national team captain has now received the Ballon d’Or award five times. He also won the UEFA Champions League five times. After successful years at Real Madrid, he has been under contract with Juventus Turin in Italy since 2018.
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