I've been coaching for a long time. I knw how to read players and how they behave during training. Ronaldo during training jokes and laughs, but shouts Vamos with sincerity after scoring in a 2-vs-Keeper drill, does his goal celebration after scoriing a penalty that he had to take to help the Keeper practice. He'll l augh if someone gives him a look, make a 'I'm joking' face in defence. But he means it. He is competitve duuring training to prove to his teammates that he's better than thhem. Its embarrassing. You can seee in the clip a handful of players are clearly uncomfortable and awkward with how he behaves.
Think about it. He's asked to take a peenalty to help the keeper practice- then does his goal celebration after the keeper fails to save it. When scoring in a 2 aside short pass and shoot drill, pumps his fists and very ssereiously and passionately shhouts 'come on!' and performs a rehearsed, CR7 sstance and slogan.
I've worked in sport for a long, ,long time- and itts blatantly obvious he makes his teammates uncomfortable, that he's morer concerened with his own image as a good footballere than with the team. That he wants to show up his own teammates to big up himself. My dad (75 god bless him) znd I have playing the same game since he first joined RM: counting how many times during a game that, after doing something wrong (mis control, poor pass, poor touch whatever) he'll immediately make some sort of subtle or or blatant gesture to a teammate to imply what happened only did because of a mistake by them. He'll throw an arm up, point somwhere.__ just gesture to someone that they messed up.
I mean he'll literally misplace a 6 yard pass, and throw his arm up at his teammate as if to say 'uh you shouldve [whatever]'. Another common one is he'll recieve a pass, have a decent 1st touch, the a defender will kick the ball and CR7 will patronizingly gesture back to his teammate that it was his fault in some way. He'll gesture after failing a trick that a teammate shouldve been over there, gesture after failing to control a pass that the pass was wrong, gesture after not being able to dribble past someone that a pas was wrong. He will throw his arm up or point somwhere to imply something literally 10 times a game, to avoid people seeing he made a mistake- but instead its his teammates incompetence that holds back his brilliance.
Its disgusting and pathetic and reeks of ego, self consciousness, need for constant affirmation, etc. If he played under me he'd have been pulled about it.
Seriously watch out for it. Every single game, repeatedly.
