The former Barcelona striker recalled his time at San Siro as a young promise
“Ronaldo told Ancelotti: ‘What do you want me to do, run or score goals?'” recalled ‘Auba’
The former Barcelona player Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang recalled his time in Milan, a club where he arrived as a young promise but in which he did not have the necessary minutes and space to demonstrate his qualities. In that team she coincided with the coach Carlo Ancelotti and was able to witness up close the last throes of Ronaldo Nazario in elite football. “Ronaldo was fat”recognized the French-Gabonian, who explained an amusing anecdote about the Brazilian and the Italian.
“I will always remember when Carlo Ancelotti criticized him for his physical condition and Ronaldo said: ‘What do you want me to do, run or score goals?’ Ancelotti told him: ‘Score goals’! In the next game he scored two. That is part of the character and as a striker you need it because you have to be strong mentally”, he narrated. the current Chelsea striker.
Aubameyang he recalled that “at the time, the team was really strong.” “Ronaldo, Maldini, Nesta. I was very young. That’s why I chose to go on loan (to Dijon, Lille and Monaco) for a few years,” he recalled.
“I wasn’t demanding Ronaldo’s place. I was just trying to get better and watch him to learn as much as possible. I was a kid among all those stars, just playing and training, trying to get as much as I could and pick up all these things in my career. To tell the truth, Ronaldo was a bit fat by then, but he was still the best”, settled ‘Auba’.
