Cristiano Ronaldo was signed for Manchester United by Sir Alex Ferguson
He regards Sir Alex Ferguson as the father figure who shaped his career, but Cristiano Ronaldo still has no idea what his former Manchester United manager is saying.
The Portuguese attacker, who spent six successful years at Old Trafford, still finds the Glaswegian’s accent impenetrable and was struggling so much to understand his former manager he even employed a translator when he first moved to England.
The Real Madrid player said: “I still don’t understand him. In the beginning, I had a translator, a Brazilian man, of course, basically only for him.”
Ronaldo’s father, an alcoholic, is now dead but the player has never forgotten Ferguson’s compassion in allowing him to visit his ill parent. “We had an important game and I said, ‘Coach I need to go to see my daddy’. He said ‘three days, four days, five days you can go’.”
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