Trained secretly with Ronaldo, 18-year-old goalie tells how much he got paid.

Like most of the world's players, Cristiano Ronaldo has been forced to remain in isolation because of the coronary pandemic. Juventu footballer had to travel to Portugal, because his mother was sick and therefore did it at his home in Madeira herself.

Even under the isolation conditions, however, the 35-year-old did not neglect football and was trained in the green field of the city stadium, taking advantage of the club president's friendship.

Portuguese media discovered these secret drills, which were normally not allowed, while protagonist was also Philipe Gonçalves, goalkeeper of the National Team's youth team. He has shown how he discovered that he had become a pair of plans to keep Ronaldo in shape and how his days were at his side. He had been called in a day from the club and had been told simply to go to Madeira Stadium.

“thought it was to work with the first age “, the 18-year-old for “A'Bola” for the first training he had attended with Hugo Moscow, a teammate. When we entered the field we didn't trust ourselves, it was like a dream. We looked at each other, and we were speechless, and we had no idea what was happening”.

Everything was a secret and was told not to share it with their family. I couldn't tell anyone. It was forbidden, the information I had to give was that Nacional was back in training and that's what my parents thought. It was crazy, only after the news was published in the media that I was able to talk to my parents about this”, he followed.

Our work was to stay at the door for closing exercises. Ronaldo ran and worked hard, he never stopped, then we went on. Sometimes we stayed for training with his son's shots. The boy knows, has skills, has good technique and strength. For his age, he's on the right track”, show Gonçalves.

During these days, he had bets and lost to Ronaldo. At the end of any training session, we'd hit ball 5 or 10 times in the train. We bet who would lose, it would pay one or five euros to the other, he suggested. I lost my first training, but neither had I brought any money, had no idea what was going to happen. The next day, I paid Ronaldo. I approached him, gave him a euro, and said “board is a debt of”. He thanked me, laughed, and said it was a big gesture. At that exercise came a bunch of bills and gave us 100 euros each as a thank you. But we didn't make it out of money, the biggest push was to train with it.

What's it like to cut off Ronaldo's hits? I managed to expect some as much as I could, but no one has any idea how much strength there is in every blow. Positioning is a force of nature. He was trained for punishment and penalty kick. She told me about the way she watches and studies the doorkeeper before she throws a penalty. But it's unpredictable. Even knowing it, stopping it is complicated”, showed the teenage goalkeeper who will certainly never forget this pandemic period.