Intro:
Cristiano Ronaldo talks about Euro 2012 and compares his former boss at Manchester United Sir Alex Ferguson with Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho.
Script:
SOUNDBITE: (English) Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal and Real Madrid: (How do you prepare for a big tournament, like Euro 2012 in such a short space of time?) "Well we have a few days to prepare (for) the tournament. The coaches know better than anyone what we have to do it. When (it) is (a) short period of time, you know, to do with the team, to build a team is quite difficult but we have like twenty days to prepare the first game so we have time enough to prepare the team, to do a strategy, the tactics, everything to beat Germany in the first game."
SOUNDBITE: (English) Cristiano Ronaldo, Portugal and Real Madrid: (You won the league with Man Utd and Real Madrid, how do you compare your managers Sir Alex Ferguson and Jose Mourinho?) "For me they are both the same coaches in the world. I had a pleasure to win with Sir Alex Ferguson, it was like a second father when I arrive in Manchester at eighteen years old, so he teach me many things. And, you know, to carry on in my career with (Jose) Mourinho it was amazing I cannot wish more than that. For me it was (a) very nice thing, you know, to improve myself all the time, to keep learning. So in the beginning it was with Sir Alex Ferguson, now with Mourinho, it's great."
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1988 | Netherlands | Soviet Union | Italy / West Germany |
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1980 | West Germany | Belgium | Czechoslovakia |
1976 | Czechoslovakia | West Germany | Netherlands |
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