Cristiano Ronaldo first encountered Joao Aroso when Aroso was a fitness coach at Sporting, before the infamous 2003 move to Manchester United. The coach could never have anticipated that the forward would be playing today.
“These are things that are extremely difficult to imagine,” Aroso told FourFourTwo, “because while it’s important to be in good physical condition – and we all knew Cristiano took immense care of himself, always has, ever since he was 18 when I first worked with him at Sporting – the type of care has changed over the years.
Back then, it was all about training, training, always wanting to train as much as possible.” Now part of the backroom team for South Korea, Aroso was also assistant to Portugal between 2010 and 2015, linking up with Ronaldo, ranked at no.4 in FourFourTwo's list of the greatest footballers of all time, again.
