Carlo Ancelotti: It’s a pleasure to manage Cristiano Ronaldo.
Former Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti has admitted that ‘it is a pleasure to manage’ Cristiano Ronaldo.
Ancelotti revealed Ronaldo always gives 100% to his manager and to the team, and rubbished the claims that Portugal Captain only cares about personal glory.
Carlo Ancelotti: It’s a pleasure to manage Cristiano Ronaldo.
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“You see a different kind of Cristiano Ronaldo when you are the manager of his team,” Ancelotti wrote in The Telegraph.
“The rest of the world has become obsessed with the image and the look of the man, or how he celebrates when he scores, or how he reacts when things go wrong. I just saw a guy who always wanted to do his best.
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“First of all, I never once saw him in front of the dressing-room mirror or worrying about how he looked. For Cristiano the priority was always to win.
“There were a lot of strong guys in that Real Madrid dressing room – it was a basic requirement of being at the club that you needed a big personality.”
“He is a pleasure to manage,” said Ancelotti. “We all know about the work he puts in to be so strong and his perfectionism on the training ground when it comes to technique.
“He also understands that a lot about being a top footballer, with the demands of the modern game, is about recovery. It is what you do in between the games that counts for so much. He would talk to our medical staff all the time, he would try to figure out what he needed.
“The boy lived for the game – everything else was built to fit around it. That meant his recovery times, what he ate, when he ate, his commercial commitments, even his private life. All of it was organised so that when he stepped on the pitch he would be at the absolute peak of his performance.
“No footballer can be 100 per cent fit every time he plays, but Ronaldo never got badly injured because he did so much of the prevention work that can help you avoid those sort of problems.”