Cristiano Ronaldo has responded savagely to his former Real Madrid teammate Rafael van der Vaart after the Dutchman revealed his bizarre theory about why the Portuguese has had such a successful career.
The two played together at Los Blancos in the 2009/10 season and both performed well for Manuel Pellegrini’s side despite the team failing to win a major trophy, with Ronaldo scoring 33 goals in 35 games and van der Vaart adding seven goals and seven assists. in 31 games.
The Dutch midfielder ended the duo’s relationship when he moved to Tottenham Hotspur ahead of the following season, while ‘CR7’ scored a whopping 450 goals in 438 appearances for Real.
But, 14 years later, it seems Ronaldo is still on van der Vaart’s mind, and the 41-year-old tells talkSPORT why he thought his former colleague had gone on to have such a remarkable career.
He revealed that he had “never seen (Ronaldo’s) penis”, in a shocking comment that the midfielder clarified meant that the Portuguese was always on the training pitch and never went into the showers.
It seems Ronaldo didn’t like van der Vaart’s crude comments and took to Instagram this week to give the cheeky Dutchman a brutal response.
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The pair played together for Los Blancos for a year before van der Vaart moved to Spurs.
The icon posted: “Who is that guy?”, under a new post in the comments on the platform.
Several of Ronaldo’s former teammates have praised the meticulous Portuguese international for his excellent professionalism and commitment to football over the years, but none have done so in the same way as Van der Vaart did this week.
The Dutchman told the station’s TheLineUp podcast.: ‘He never left the house! I always tell this joke: Ronaldo is the only player whose penis I have never seen. He was always the first to train and the last to leave.
Van der Vaart, whose joke caused podcast participants to burst out laughing, continued: “First of all, her body, wow.” It was a machine.
‘He was a little ahead of his time, today’s players do the same thing. But his training in the gym, his diet, his sleep, all that was more important to him than training very hard (on the field).’
The former Netherlands international went on to explain Ronaldo’s hunger for goals, explaining that this hunger was sometimes “selfish.”
“He was incredibly selfish,” Van der Vaart added. “If we won 6-0 and he didn’t score, he wasn’t happy, but when we lost, he was happy if he scored two.
‘Did you play only for him? No, it was just his need to score. Ruud van Nistelrooy was the same.
Ronaldo is considered one of the greatest players of all time and is known for his hard work.
He provided another momentous moment in September for Portugal, scoring his 900th goal.
He scored 145 for Manchester United in 346 games between 2003 and 2009.
“We had a lot of conversations with him and it was very interesting because he kept saying, ‘I need my goals!’
Ronaldo became the first player in football history to score 900 goals after his brilliant shot put Portugal 2-0 up against Croatia in September.
According to transfermarkt, Ronaldo’s first goal came for Sporting Lisbon in a league match against Moreirense on October 7, 2002, thanks to a solo run.
But not even a man he trusted could have predicted that he would still be scoring 22 years later and surpassing 900 strikes.
It remains to be seen if the legend will be able to reach four figures, as the footballer, who now plays for Al Nassr in Saudi Arabia, is currently focusing more on life off the field.
To connect more closely with his fans around the world, the Portuguese superstar unveiled his latest project on the video-sharing platform and has already garnered over 71 million subscribers.