“I used to crush Cristiano all over the place, he would cry and everything”

Ferdinand River and Cristiano Ronaldo they shared changing rooms in Manchester Utd in six years, during which the Portuguese went from being a promising youngster to lifting the Ballon d’Or in 2008 after the team he led at the time. Sir Alex Ferguson He was crowned European champion the same year in Moscow. However, the beginning of the current footballer of Al Nasr Saudi Arabia did not have it easy at Old Trafford.

“Maybe we are close to bullying”

This is how he himself explained Ferdinand on the hit Australian radio show ‘Kyle and Jackie O.‘. “We used to bother him a lot, both Quinton Fortune and I. Cristiano was younger than us at the time. Maybe we bordered on bullying, but we were just trying to build him up, to build his stability,” explains the current commentator on ‘BT Sports’.

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christian he was only 18 years old when he signed for Manchester Utd from Sports of Portugal in the summer of 2003. “We played every other day before practice as part of the warm-up. I used to crush on him from all sides. If they had televised it, it would have broken all records. He was cry and all, he’s very competitive,” he added. Ferdinand.

The last great United

In addition to the aforementioned Champions League, together they won three Premier Leagues (2007, 2008 and 2009), two League Cups (2006 and 2009), two Community Shields (2007 and 2008), one FA Cup (2004) and one World Clubs Cup (2008). After this, ronaldo He had a second spell at the Mancuniano club, which he ended in November due to disagreements with the coach, Erik Tenhagand the club itself, which he criticized publicly in an interview with journalist Piers Morgan, from ‘the day‘.