🚨Anderson on Cristiano’s second spell with United: “We had to go to the club at 6:30 in the morning, because Ronaldo was training at that time, while Nani and I slept on stretchers, and if I had 5% of his mentality, I would have been among the 20 best midfielders in the world at that time.”

Daniel Alves has talked about living with Cristiano Ronaldo when he was at Manchester United.

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He joined the Red Devils from Porto in 2007 and is now 35 years old.He took the player under his wing, even though he was only 19 years old and spoke Portuguese. Ronaldo was four years older than him.

Anderson had just won the famous European Golden Boy award, but Ronaldo’s work rate amazed him.

“Nani and I lived at Cristiano Ronaldo’s house for almost a year,” he told the Brazilian show Globoesporte about their time together.

“Training was at 9:30, but sometimes we had to go at 6:30, because Ronaldo was at the club and we went with him.”Nani and I slept on the stretchers and waited because he had to get to work.

Anderson said, “As soon as I got to Manchester, I went to Cristiano’s house to see how willing he was to help me.” It was very helpful to me. He took me in.

“Nani and I lived with CR7 for almost a year.” We walked away because we were ready to. We would have stayed there for him. We didn’t spend any money.

After that, he said, “Cristiano fed us and had a cook for us while we trained.” The house had a sauna, a tennis court, and a swimming pool, both inside and outside.Anderson played 181 times for Manchester United over the next eight years and helped the team win four Premier League titles, a League Cup, a Club World Cup, and the Champions League.

He has had a lot of success, but he doesn’t think he reached his full ability.

He went on to say, “If I had 5% of Cristiano Ronaldo’s mentality, I would have been one of the twenty best midfielders at that time.”

A very Brazilian thing to do is to believe that we have already won and that everything is over. Wouldn’t want a little more…

Anderson quit football in 2019 when he was 31 years old.

After leaving Manchester United, he played for Internacional for three years before ending his career with Adana Demirspor in Turkey.

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