“I asked for his shirt,” Kane said after a Champions League clash between Real Madrid and Tottenham in 2017.
Harry Kane might be a seasoned professional in his own right, but the Tottenham and England star is eight years younger than Ronaldo and watched the world-class forward closely during his teenage years. “My idol is Cristiano Ronaldo I always looked up to him because when I was younger I was more of a Man United fan – my first memory was them beating Bayern Munich and my dad running around the table with me,” the attacking midfielder told the Coventry Telegraph, per, in 2015. Leicester City star James Maddison supported Manchester United as a boy and still prefers Ronaldo to Lionel Messi even now.
Keep up the good work” written on the back. In the same year, Ronaldo sent Rashford a signed Real Madrid shirt with the words “To Marcus.
“People don’t do that at his age, people are usually heading towards the end of their career and their level starts going down a little bit, but he’s just gone up and up and up." Rashford added: ”The way he’s sustained his career and even improved year on year is just amazing. "I could speak for a lot of young players and United fans that watched the team when he was here and the majority of us have followed him as he’s moved on in his career and that’s what's special about United.” “For me there is no bigger inspiration in football," he told Man Utd’s official website in 2018. You only have to look at Marcus Rashford’s free-kick technique to realise that the Manchester United forward grew up watching Ronaldo. "I would love to meet him and tell him that I am a footballer thanks to him,” the 20-year-old told reporters earlier this year. But Mbappe isn’t the only current star to openly admit that Ronaldo is his idol.īorussia Dortmund star Erling Haaland is one of the best young forwards on the planet - but the Norwegian said he may not have become a footballer if it wasn’t for Ronaldo.