After Cristiano Ronaldo says Sadio Mane spends most time in front of mirror, Jorge Jesus disagrees and calls out Al-Nassr captain instead

Sripad
Cristiano Ronaldo or Sadio Mane - who spends more time in front of the mirror?
Cristiano Ronaldo or Sadio Mane - who spends more time in front of the mirror?

Al-Nassr coach Jorge Jesus has disagreed with Cristiano Ronaldo, naming the club captain and Joao Felix as the players who spend the most time in front of a mirror. The Portuguese superstar had named teammate Sadio Mane as the player who spends a lot of time fixing his hairstyle.

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In a training session video released by Al-Nassr, the social media team asked the players to name the teammate who spends the most time in front of the mirror. Ronaldo was among the first to walk out and name Mane, but coach Jesus said it was the Portuguese superstar himself or Felix.

However, his former Real Madrid manager, Carlo Ancelotti, has previously said that he never saw Ronaldo in front of the dressing room mirror. He said that the forward was focused on winning matches and did not care about his hair, and said (via Sportstar):

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"You see a different kind of Cristiano Ronaldo when you are the manager of his team. The rest of the world has become obsessed with the image and the look of the man, or how he celebrates when he scores, or how he reacts when things go wrong. I just saw a guy who always wanted to do his best."
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"First of all, I never once saw him in front of the dressing-room mirror or worrying about how he looked. For Cristiano, the priority was always to win. There were a lot of strong guys in that Real Madrid dressing room – it was a basic requirement of being at the club that you needed a big personality."
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Cristiano Ronaldo played 101 matches under Ancelotti, scoring 112 goals and assisting 47 times. He has played 12 times under Jorge Jesus, scoring 11 times for Al-Nassr this season.

Carlo Ancelotti heaped praise on Cristiano Ronaldo

Former Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti wrote about Cristiano Ronaldo in The Telegraph in 205, hailing the Portuguese superstar. He said that the forward was always keen on doing well, in training and on the pitch, and said:

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"He is a pleasure to manage. We all know about the work he puts in to be so strong and his perfectionism on the training ground when it comes to technique. He also understands that a lot about being a top footballer, with the demands of the modern game, is about recovery. It is what you do in between the games that counts for so much."
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"He would talk to our medical staff all the time, he would try to figure out what he needed. The boy lived for the game – everything else was built to fit around it. That meant his recovery times, what he ate, when he ate, his commercial commitments, even his private life. All of it was organised so that when he stepped on the pitch he would be at the absolute peak of his performance."

Cristiano Ronaldo has extended his stay at Al-Nassr until 2027, having joined the club in 2022 after his contract at Manchester United was terminated.

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