Wayne Rooney, now after leaving his role of technical director of the Derby County, coincided with Cristiano Ronaldo in his stage like active footballer. The ex forward no unseen his admiration by the luso, to the one who recognises like a big player, but has warned in recent statements that in occasions his attitude in the field and out of him would have finished by incomodar to his ex mates.
In fact, it has indicated that even at present, after his return to the Manchester United and the problems arisen in the changing room of the 'network devils', is possible that his attitude keep on being the same, although now no with the same sportive performance: "Cristiano was so good and so jodidamente annoying at the same time. Probably it was not so well now, but surely it keep on being the same of annoying".
In addition to coinciding like mates after several seasons, both confronted in several occasions, one of them in a hard meeting between Portugal and England in the quarter-finals of the Glass of the World of 2006 in Germany. In that then, the triumph was for the lusos, that after a tie without goals, imposed in the batch of penaltis thanks to the timely cut across of a heróico Ricardo.
In the crash, the English recriminó to 'CR7' the fact to pretend infringements: "it likes Him throw. I did not have any problem with Christian at all. I spoke with him in the tunnel. I said him: 'I do not have any problem with that they expel me', because I happened the first-half treating that they reserved it to throw ". In fact, the then attacker of the team of the 'three lions' finished expelled by the Argentinian Horace Elizondo after his action in front of Ricardo Carvalho.
His problems with Christian remained in the field
Even so, it has left clear that his brush on the lawn did not happen to greater out of him, by what the compañerismo kept once that the referee decreed the end of each meeting: "I am English, he is Portuguese. When we are playing, it matters me a shit. He is not my mate. But when we have finished, we are mates again".