Emmanuel Adebayor Ronaldo swimming story
by Michalfc: Cristiano Ronaldo
Emmanuel Adebayor shared a story about his arrival at Real Madrid. He said: “When I arrived at Real Madrid, I was told training is at 10:30am, I thought okay, let me come at 8:30am so I’m first. I arrive, I see nobody, I asked the physio ‘so I’m the first?…’ he said ‘no, Ronaldo is swimming.’” The anecdote highlights Cristiano Ronaldo's legendary work ethic. #CristianoRonaldo
Transcript (en)
When I first signed in Madrid, we all knew that Cristiano Ronaldo was a professional, he's always on time. They called me, they said tomorrow the training support will start at 10.30, if you can get there for 9.30, one hour before training. I'm like, okay, this is my first session, there is no time to be late, so let me go around 8.30, 8.45. So I have like two hours, I got at 8.45, the lights were dark, but I can hear some noise underneath. and ask somebody as one of the physio what is happening down so Cristiano is downstairs training already I realized that he didn't just came to your training gun he was there be way before then I asked him what time we get here he says 730 the training starts at 10 10 30 you get that 7 30 to do what 34 hours before training
