The anecdotes about Cristiano Rolando are numerous. And this time, it was Jimmy Briand who gave a rather surprising one. The story dates back to 2002…
They were only 16 years old. Cristiano Ronaldo and Jimmy Briand played against each other in the U17 championships. But not everything went as planned, and the Portuguese was a bit of a bad player before apologizing.
“We played against each other with Cristiano during the U17 European Championship,” said Jimmy Briand on the Jmoins1 program on Canal+.
“In the last action of the match, we beat them 2-0, recalls the former Lyonnais. Ronaldo was young, already very good, very personal but very emotional. He was a little pissed that we were beating them and at the end of the match he put a dustpan in me. He had taken a red card, had therefore returned to the locker room, except that we were in the same hotel as the Portuguese. In the evening, I hear a knock on my door and it’s Ronaldo who comes to apologize and ask me for my jersey. Then there was this photo which circulated a lot on social networks.
