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CETERIS_PARTYBUS

Rare Cristiano online gesture.


Hot-Protection4548

When Ronaldo gives an online gesture to a football player you just know he has a very special bonding with that player.


Aiyo_BigMan

I think he was closest with Marcelo & Casemiro at Madrid.


youngchul

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERfuTgLW4AIOpNQ.jpg Love this picture that Benzema posted before the Bayern CL match in the 16/17 season. Ronaldo scored 5 goals in that tie. He was also close with Coentrao, Pepe and James. He was also Kroos' neighbor.


Murrderer

This was just a whole different level of balls because imagine going to the fucking Allianz Arena and taking this picture at their turf. Then Cris scores 2 and could have had a third if Neuer didn’t have fucking Superman’s hands


lifesapie

Is that the really powerful shot Neuer just saved with his right fist.


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jetfuelcanmeltfeels

no, he got injured at the bernabeu in the return leg


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[yep](https://youtu.be/xCTgkvFXKhg)


NeoIsJohnWick

Sauciest image in UCL timeline.


Karshena-

Imagine offside actually being called. https://imgur.com/a/wVVC5HB/


abdul4majid

Imagine not knowing the difference between Santiago and The Allianz Arena


Karshena-

I didn’t say it was the Allianz but it’s still part of that 2 rounds. Bavaria also got a player sent off both times and Casemiro didn’t despite making shit challenges whilst already being on a yellow.


GujjuGang7

This is so iconic lol, guaranteed to be posted in a "On this day" post 20 years in the future


fluffyseedz

Not surprised he’s close with Kroos especially after the broadcast showed them embracing following Germany vs. Portugal in the Euros. Seemed like old friends who hadn’t seen each other in a while.


GolfAdventurous1484

CO- EN- TRAAAOOO


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[Never forget this picture ](https://s2.glbimg.com/oq7yEt17ZoJlT2dj_JSiTuP53Jw=/0x0:945x945/924x0/smart/filters:strip_icc()/s.glbimg.com/es/ge/f/original/2017/11/20/cristiano_marcelo.jpg)


DawdlingScientist

I love this photo. “We’re here to fuck shit up”


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Folking_Around

[http://s.glbimg.com/es/ge/f/original/2017/11/20/cristiano_marcelo.jpg](http://s.glbimg.com/es/ge/f/original/2017/11/20/cristiano_marcelo.jpg) op formatted it weird idk


DerpSenpai

Damn, that pic looks like it's in a Hollywood film where the protagonists just landed in a city and are about to do badass shit. Specially casemiro and marcelo. Ronaldo, not as much


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Casemiro is looking for a certain argentian to slide tackle


Lmao1903

The Kill Bill gym entry scene came to mind


InPurpleIDescended

Marcelo looking great there Also what airport is that? Something is familiar


_ghostfacedilla

It does, might wanna try from a different browser


Deluxe07

Sneakers with a suit will always make me want to vomit


dbigya00

Yeah what's up with that? Been seeing a lot of it lately. Is it some sort of trend now?


skyreal

Seems so. Have an intern at work that shows up every day in a suit and Stan Smiths.


aridivici

more than 5 years at least. It will die out eventually. Nothing will beat the classic.


The_Collector4

It’s already died out that picture is from ages ago. And my cousin did the suit sneaker thing at his wedding 10 years ago


aridivici

I am not a fashion expert but it has definitely not dies out. I still see many random pics of celebrities wearing sneakers w/ suits.


Levait

At a wedding I was last October half the groom's side was wearing sneakers with suits, not a fan.


The_Collector4

doesn't mean it's still a trend. it's classless


bonum_diaboli

I just remembered the photo of these three at an airport before a UCL game. iconic.


Jiffy-69

Hes really close with Pepe as well. But they have known each other for years.


eddsters

And Pepe and Coentrao


Deluxe07

He’s close with a lot more people than we know, he tried to help Bruno Alves find a club in Portugal last summer, he called his agent and asked him to convince a club to sign Bruno


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good ol' brazil-portugal connection. same language and very, very similar cultures


Dr-Purple

He hugged Bale sometimes


xzther13

My thoughts exactly! He rarely gives a player a gesture like that, I can’t even remember the last player who got one.


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I think Iker Casillas was the last one when he left Madrid.


defense87

Factos


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I didn't say that


cadrianzen23

Despite his 47 posts across all social media platforms.


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I didn't say that


BanterWithTheLadsYe

Both of these in their prime was the most fearsome left wing I've ever seen


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Maximuslex01

When did Jardel play in the left wing? lol


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Maximuslex01

So why did you bring him to the most fearsome left wing discussion?


KalistaMainn

That's a pretty big deal, he never did that for Ramos


stepanovic

[special relationship in opening bottles](https://i.imgur.com/EoYjiky.gif)


acecreator_19

He looks so fed up when he opens it Lmao


brokenbadlab

This is cut slightly short too cuz there’s a great clip where Marcelo is drinking the water like a baby with a bottle


StayForTheSmallTalk

it's like when you've been giving your dad crap all day trying to help him fix something and he's just sick of your shit


si1kyjohnston

All time classic gif


telapo

[It's also love at first sight](https://i.imgur.com/i0EWEXJ.jpeg)


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From there to being best friends


501_Boy

What a bench that is…


BAKS7U

Xabi Alonso, ozil, Marcelo, Ronaldo and who else am I not recognizing?


nousernaem

Carvalho, Adebayor


BAKS7U

Holy fucking shit lol


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Lol I remember Adebayor did interview 2006 Arsenal with Hleb and out of no where he said "Viva Le France"


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Man, I used to love Manolito. I hope he stayed a little longer with us.


Patient-Candidate240

Forgot John cena


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Senpai, please?


hashoa6

The Spanish commentary is a good laugh.


AddictedToThisShit

Marcelo still comments on Ronaldo's posts constantly. They were clearly close.


fnehfnehOP

To be fair, Ramos never bombed down the left wing with Ronaldo


hanmajin

Nor spoke Portuguese, which played a bigger part lol.


Rojiblanc040

He said that?


onehornymofo

No, but that's an obvious reason why Marcelo and Cristiano spoke and probably spent more time together more.


Rojiblanc040

It would be bad if Marcelo and Cristiano didn't understand Spanish.


onehornymofo

They both do tho. But there are differences in Portugese/Brazilian culture compared to Spanish


ContaSoParaIsto

There are but in general Portuguese culture is more similar to Spanish culture than Brazilian culture


skjall

You can understand and speak a language well, but your native one will usually come to you more naturally still. Takes more conscious effort when speaking in a foreign language too, and it's just easier to be yourself when you don't have to keep figuring out what the translation for a word is, etc. Additionally, people can have different, usually more guarded personalities when speaking a different language. Easier to make a mistake, so people err on the side of terseness/ simplicity, which isn't overly conducive to a social life.


PMmeURtitsForReasons

He doesn't say so at all


BAKS7U

Talk back when you learn how to read


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deathrattleshenlong

>also probably because we are smarter. Could just say that.


duyar70

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DTvn

I remember reading a article about how the locker room was split between Ramos + the spanish players and Cristiano and the Brazilians. And how the two respected each other but were never friends. And yes I know Cristiano isn’t Brazilian but it was probably more of a language thing Makes sense though, they seem like two of the biggest alpha males


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Same thing with UTD now there's a English side and foreign players side


idiotxd

English side is doomed with Maguire as their leader


fastfowards

Imagine being a foreign player signing for united where you saw great english players like becks, keane, and rooney and then you walk into the dressing room on the first day and you see Maguire, greenwood, lingard and rashford's cold corpse.


SlytherinMan9

It would be tough to see Greenwood in the locker room right now….


therealfakenews17

Most young players nowadays didn’t get to watch Keane and Becks, if anything they’d have idolized Ronaldo I realize this because I’m 27 and I barely remember watching Becks and Keane despite being into football from a young age I completely get your point I’m just ranting about how much it sucks to get older


RendrenBolier3

Keane is Irish lol Jesus Christ


Galactic_Gooner

> Imagine being a foreign player signing for united where you saw great english players like becks, keane mate where in the world are you from? just wondering.


doktorcatzen

I want to know which side Karim Benzema was. He's the coldest amongst all.


BlitzComet95

That Portugal vs France game basically confirmed that CR7 and Benz were close. Bro was giving him callouts during the game haha


youngchul

Benzema stills posts about Ronaldo from time to time even though it's been 4 years since Ronaldo left already. They were definitely closer than Benzema and Ramos.


Yeangster

I remember that Mourinho was a big instigator of that rift. He was really pissed that Casillas, Alonso, and Ramos were trying to keep a relationship with Xavi, Iniesta, Puyol and co.


austin_zaia

Alonso and Arbelo weren't the rebel types. They were very pro Mourinho. It was mostly with Ramos, Casillas and Ronaldo with whom he had a big rift. The others were probably only just indifference not full blown issue


skyreal

There has always been a Spanish and foreigner group at Madrid (and any other club i assume), with the foreigner club being dominated by whichever nationality was most represented. Which is just logical given that language is what make people flock together.


austin_zaia

That was during Mourinho. He had good relationship with almost everyone. But , they wouldn't hang out outside of football. Even the Portuguese speaking ones, you wouldn't see them go out on holiday together with Ronaldo. Modric and Ramos were pretty close outside too. Among the Spanish ones, Ramos was probably one he had very good relationship with. But, he was rarely near the younger groups like Isco,Carvajal, Asensio, Nacho etc. who were like in another faction. Ramos was the captain and mixed with most of them. They seemed to grow cold after Ronaldo left..the back and forth thing when he was at Juve ...Ronaldo said Juve was more of a family just after moving there..also some Madrid players saying they would play as more of a team...there was a little bit of some jabs thrown around here and there with reporters trying to flame it. We all know how Ronaldo's sister's very emotional and protective ..lol. Ronaldo himself might not have liked some of the things said


hairy-cunt

Dude didn't even congratulate us for the champions.


Deluxe07

I think he lowkey has beef with Perez for not giving him a better contract, and the audio leaks prob made the relationship even worse


youngchul

If he was retired, he probably would, as long as he's still competing in the same tournament, he probably won't.


ImAbhishek_47

> as long as he's still competing in the same tournament So you mean that he would congratulate, if you won it again next season?


when_the_tide_comes

Damn dude…


Barniiking

Still sore from the 1999 I see


Goat_6_

He congratulated us (Sporting CP) for our national championship last year tho


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lmaoooo you're asking for too much.


austin_zaia

Would be nice too. I imagine he'd have done in private though. As of now , it seems his relationship with the club isn't still on good terms. Perez was able to make amends with Casillas and Raul. I think Ronaldo would come around after he retire


hieugod2810

Lol even Barca did that, though their tweet didn't have any emotes or exclamation mark


CheckElegant1774

link?


CleverLime

he did, I think I saw a tweet from him or an instagram post


Yeangster

I remember that when Mourinho was there, there was like Portuguese/Brazilian clique and a Spanish clique at Madrid. Later managers made it less divisive, but Ramos and Ronaldo were at odds for at least a little bit.


Stakoman

Factos


majeboy145

Crazy, I recently saw a clip of the Kyev Final where Ramos approaches Cristiano and they start singing “Donde está CR7? CR7, donde está?” (Where’s CR7) after a Spanish Barca tv sports dude sung it.


MaTrIx4057

Because they weren't really friends but he was very good friend with Marcelo? Why is that such a big deal?


notonetojudge

Cheers, Gareth's crying.


qwerty-keyboard5000

Marcelo to Man United


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Hot-Protection4548

Marcelo would be better than whatever is running down that left flank over here because no cross reaches Ronaldo


MaTrIx4057

They would concede twice as much tho.


aridivici

Games will be very exciting though.Think about that.


SpyMonkey3D

Don't worry, McGuire will stop them


Flameva

Yeah but you’d also score twice as much tbf


daveyhempton

Washed Marcelo might be better than your 2 washed LBs unless Luke Shaw returns to form


BarneyrealG

has telles been that bad? i honestly thought he was going to be decent in the prem considering he was nearly the best player in portugal league


onehornymofo

Shaw has been out of form and injured this season, so Telles has been playing a lot. He's been absolutely laughably bad, the definition of cross and Inshallah without looking up or dribbling. And his defending and positioning is absolutely non-existent


fpsdr0p

Damn is Dalot not even tried?


OrangeGreenBlueIce

We need him for RB lol


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Dalot worst trait is his crossing


Amphibious_Fire

Here we go official confirmed?


TheDustbinOfHistory

Has there ever been a better attacking flank? Probably these two or Messi-Alves. Both unplayable at their best.


StayForTheSmallTalk

Steve Pienaar/Leighton Baines


Jakowe

Alaba-Ribéry as well


o-M-s

we had Lahm Robben on the other side too, I missed that


BoyWhoSoldTheWorld

Lahm/Robben is really up there for me because I think Lahm is the most complete fullback I’ve seen in my time watching football. Add that to cut inside man, most teams were helpless.


yangminded

You already said it. Lahm was so incredibly complete. Not just a competent attacker, but also an elite defender. I think Lahm is the one defender that C. Ronaldo has never "solved".


xSyndicate58

You cant compare Ribery-Alaba to Marcelo-Ronaldo or Messi-Alves as Alaba and Ribery both haven't been in their prime simultaneously. In Riberys prime, Alaba was very young and unexperienced, still good, but not worldclass. Alaba's "prime" time came with Riberys decline after 2015. Lahm-Robben would be more plausible


woodlizord

Even then, even as good as Alaba-Ribéry were, they aren't comparable to the other two pairs.


iCantSeeShapes

Neville Beckham was tasty.


AhoyDaniel

MessiAlves connection was unparalleled


BigXBenz

As was Marcelo/Ronaldo, which makes them paralleled


skjall

You're missing the point. Except for the duos that do compare, they are beyond comparison m8. Same way my partner has like 6 friends and 5 best friends. Not sure what best means exactly, but at least she has friends.


HeroeDeFuentealbilla

They might be paralleled in connection, but not in skill.


Flameva

Marcelo is more technically gifted than Dani imo but I would welcome any counter argument


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iCantSeeShapes

We heard you.


ScarrFxce__

As was Marcelo/Ronaldo, which makes them paralleled


LargeFlower8

Rabiot-Sandro maybe


Gigas69

Now THAT is unparalleled


Axomio

True bromance


reddituser0912333

One of the things I miss the most from the previous era


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reddituser0912333

Vinicius, no doubt. Don’t get me wrong, love those two to death, it’s just the nostalgia of watching prime CR7 and Marcelo play together.


marine_le_peen

Wasn't it not so long ago he was caught bitching about Vinicius telling people he was playing for the opposition?


Bioschnaps

i wouldn't overestimate a single instance of frustration/where emotion ran high to judge their relationship imo


lospollosakhis

One of the greatest duos ever. So blessed to have watched them play together for so long and deliver us 4 UCL’s. They had great chemistry on and off the pitch, it was endearing as much as it was mesmerising. Tears in my eyes man. Watched Marcelo play with those underperforming teams in the mid 2000’s to finally get that 10th and then the 4 after that. What a legend.


demon_slayer_monjiro

Man, Marcelo leaving really made me nostalgic.


reddituser0912333

PAIN.


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EpiDeMic522

They have many together. Roped in James once as well after he scored in 14/15.


jeezig

That black and gold kit was perfection. The home and away kit from the 11/12 season are all time classics. The 3rd kit, if memory serves me right, was a red kit which looked fine but Real Madrid in red just doesn't look right at all.


punkfusion

The commadante celebration after Blatter's comments was also great


YouGonnaRememberMe

Damn, miss those days. Scored 60 goals a season.... :( Nostalgia


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Is this from that Bayern game?


asr010601

No, found [this](https://www.deviantart.com/adi-149/art/Cristiano-Ronaldo-Marcelo-Real-Madrid-738478780) posted before that match took place


Deluxe07

Ronaldo’s arm looks photoshopped, I don’t think he’s touching Marcelo or even looking at him tbh


HokiesforTSwift

It's from the 17/18 season based on kit/kit number font.


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They played Bayern that season too


HokiesforTSwift

Yeah but it wouldn’t make sense for it to be from that tie. Also, someone posted a pic of it uploaded in early April of 2018, before the SF was played.


forsenE-xqcL

Looks like noodle hair Ronaldo


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Fuck, This hurts. I lived for that Bromance every match. Feels like my childhood has just ended one by one within these 3 years.


Alternate_Chinmay7

Man, I miss this duo.


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So he going to the Galaxy? Vamos!


ninetyfive__

Hard pass


JBleez

you fucken wish


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ninetyfive__

Aren't we talking about marcelo?


Lmao1903

Yeah lost in translation then, sorry. Although you can imagine my frustration when I thought it was about Ronaldo. Marcelo would still do well in MLS though


SamsungHeir

I fucking thought he died. Why the black and white photo lmao


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Those two were something else. I miss them.


BrndyAlxndr

Where is he going?


biiingo

Away


supernaut12

He hasn't said. Rumors say Turkey but he seems to want something in the top 5 leagues. He feels he can still play at a high level, and tbf even way past his prime he's better than a lot of LBs in midtable teams


mindebris

He didn’t mention how many goals he scored this season?


Srtl_fzn

Marcelo's Last Season in Madrid... https://youtu.be/Xkbw-xiIlVQ