Cristiano Ronaldo is a player who enjoyed glorious days in the Premier League during his two spells at Manchester United, although the second time around didn’t end well. As a reminder, it is in this English club that the Portuguese revealed himself to the face of the world. And it is to tell us a few stories that his former teammate Rio Ferdinand sat down to eat..
Cristiano Ronaldo and Rio Ferdinand are two former teammates who enjoyed each other when they all played under the colors of Manchester United, before the Portuguese decided to leave in the summer of 2009 for Real Madrid. And even after this departure, the England international still has a good image of his teammate as he has just revealed.
Indeed, the former Manchester United defender revealed the competitiveness between the two ahead of training with games of table tennis. Rio Ferdinand recalled an anecdote from his years at Manchester United alongside Cristiano Ronaldo. And it’s on the show Kyle and Jackie O that the player made his revelations.
The former Red Devils defender took part in the radio show where he revealed a pre-training habit which also involved formerly Atlético de Madrid’s Fortune: Fortune, who was also our teammate, and I used to tease him (Cristiano Ronaldo). He was much younger than us at the time and we could still bully him a bit, but we were just trying to give him some resistance. “, explains Ferdinand.
« We sometimes played table tennis before practice to warm up. It crushed him in every way. It was him and me, we were number one and two, like Federer and Nadal. Ronaldo was so competitive he almost cried… “, he reveals.
