YYou have to be either very bold or very stupid to kick Cristiano Ronaldo, whether in practice or during a match. There was one player who committed it by chance, but the incident did not go unnoticed, as it “hit” Real Madrid’s most important asset at the time.
It happened in March of 2017. The season was already coming to an end, and youth player Manu Hernando, who had just been given the chance to train with the first team, accidentally stuck his foot out at the Portuguese player.
I accidentally kicked Cristiano. I didn’t really mean to, and I didn’t even want to set foot on it, but I did, knowing that I would definitely get there. He touched the ball a little ahead of me and I ended up kicking him in the Achilles tendon. Criminal. What a mess I’ve gotten myself into, I thought. I didn’t train again that year
It was all just fear. However, the boy did not return to the training of the first team. It is rumored that Ronaldo and Madrid’s management have ordered his separation due to this incident. As he said in an interview with Cadena SER, in reality training sessions for the starters, substitutes and youth team were already scheduled.
A brief infamy against Manu Hernando
After this incident, news began to circulate that a young boy had ruined his career by punching a world-famous soccer prodigy. There was a lot of talk about him closing the door on a tryout for the first team and being ruled out of any possibility for attacking Cristiano Ronaldo.
Hernando has made it clear that Real Madrid have never excluded or punished him. In fact, they even considered him a candidate for the first-team bench. However, due to an injury sustained during the 2018 preseason, he was not considered for the following season.
Manu Hernando is a Spanish footballer who plays as a central defender for Tondela.
He joined Real Madrid’s youth organization in 2017 and stayed there for three seasons. Although the Spanish footballer had a youth contract, he often trained with the first team and even had the chance to play pre-season with the first team.
He currently plays for Racing Santander in Spain’s second division. His career has taken him up the promotion circuit with teams such as Castilla, Ponferradina, Amorebieta and Portugal’s Tondela.
