Thursday, August 8, 2013

Take that! Ronaldo shows Jose who's boss with celebration as Real beat Chelsea 3-1


Cristiano Ronaldo had more reason than most to celebrate his pre-season goal - to show Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho what he's missing.

The Portuguese star struck twice as his Real Madrid side toppled the Blues 3-1 in the final of the Guinness International Champions Cup in Miami.

After his first goal, a sweetly-struck free-kick, he offered no celebration other than to turn around towards the dugout, pointing at his chest with a sneer.

The gesture won't have been lost on Mourinho. The compatriots reportedly fell out towards the end of Mourinho's reign at Real Madrid, and Ronaldo's act seemed to show him who's boss.


Ronaldo headed in a second goal to kill the game off, after a delightful chip from Ramires had equalised Marcelo's opener.

The row re-sparked ahead of the match when Mourinho referred to the former Brazil striker as the 'real' Ronaldo.

Cristiano Ronaldo, though, insisted after the match the mind-games don't affect his game.
'I like to do my talking on the pitch. What happens off it doesn't affect me,' he said.

'I aim to help Real Madrid to achieve its objectives and what happens away from there does not hurt me.'
Regarding the victory, he said: 'The team is getting better all the time. It was the most important game of pre-season and it was against a very strong opponent.

'The team has been very well and the result is fair because we played better.'
Mourinho, meanwhile, was also asked about his recent comments about Ronaldo following the match.
He told reporters: 'Cristiano is your movie, it's not my movie. Just to identify the person, I just said the 'true Ronaldo' in relation to the Brazilian one.

'If somebody asks me '"Thomas Muller or Gerd Muller", for me the real one is Gerd Muller because he's the first one. And I'm not saying anything against the new kid in Bayern, so that's your movie and Real Madrid were last week in the movie city (Los Angeles), so maybe it's one more movie, but it's not my problem.'

Mourinho added of the world's most expensive player: 'He's a great player and has scored goals all his life. When he scores it's not big news, when he doesn't it is.'

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