"What Fergie did for me is bigger than championships and champions"

Manchester United today (Friday) released a peek at an unconventional podcast between the club’s legends, Cristiano Ronaldo and Sir Alex Ferguson. The Portuguese phenomenon and the former coach sat side by side and recorded an interesting episode that will be broadcast in full later by the team, but there are already quite a few gems the two have provided about their relationship, as they also discussed the issue of CR7’s father’s death.

Ferguson He first referred to Ronaldo’s move to his club in 2003 and revealed what he said to the star’s agent: “He was perhaps the youngest we signed from another country, it was very important that his mother stayed with him at first. I wanted to make it clear to him and his agent that at first he would not be able to play in every game, but he was so good and I am in favor of starting with my best players. “

“In the first game of the season he came up as a substitute and was fantastic, the crowd loved him and I was debating whether to give him the car in the next game or to open on the bench. That was a big problem, “Fergie added. Cristiano He replied: “Everything he promised me, he did. It’s hard as an 18 – year – old kid to play with stars like Giggs, Scholes, Cain and Solchiar. I was stressed but he helped me a lot, he would call me to his office and there was a translator. He helped me grow as a person, so I really appreciate him. I always say that for me he is my father in football. “

The game Ferguson was talking about was a 1-2 win over Newcastle away, in which Ronaldo’s journey in red began. There is a very special connection between the two as mentioned. CR7 scored 118 goals and netted another 76 in 293 games for the Red Devils before the famous move to Real Madrid, with the 79-year-old Fergie playing a significant part in the phenomenon’s comeback to England this summer.

Alex Ferguson and Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United official website)

Ronaldo also remembers the difficult moments, when in 2005 his father died when he was only 20 years old, but that only strengthened his relationship with the coach: “We had a lot of beautiful moments together, but I remember not only the victories but also the difficult moments. Fergie may not remember, but one day my dad was in the hospital and I was sad. I talked to him and he said go to him for two or three days, even though there were tough games and I was already a key player. He told me ‘we have tough games and it will not be easy, but I understand your situation and I will let you see your father’. It was more important to me than winning the Champions League, the Premier League and the trophies. “

Alex Ferguson and Cristiano Ronaldo (Reuters)

Ferguson responded to this: “I have experience with this issue, when I was a young 33-year-old coach, a player approached me on Tuesday, and asked me ‘boss can I have a day off on Friday?’ I asked why and he replied that his mother was dead. What can you already do? I told him, yes, obviously, and from that moment on if an actor would come up to me and tell me he was asking for leave for a party like that I would help him. In Cristiano’s case, he knew his father and it was important for him to be with him in the hospital. It’s more important than football, there are things that are bigger than football, and family is one of them without question. In life, you should not put football above your family. “

Cristiano Ronaldo and Sir Alex Ferguson reflect on hugely successful period together at Old Trafford as Manchester United tease clip of club icons catching up https://t.co/S56zwy7kDB
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