Former Real Madrid coach, Fabio Capello has some funny anecdotes to tell about his time with the Merengues.
Ronaldo, Cassano, Roberto Carlos, Guti, Beckham, Raúl… When Fabio Capello managed Real Madrid in 2006-2007, the Merengues squad was full of stars. But some players did not have exemplary behavior and that is what marked the Italian technician.
“One day, Van Nistelrooy came and told me that ‘the locker room smells of alcohol’. It was true “, says Capello. In his sights, the Brazilian Ronaldo. “Qsomeone who liked to party and encouraged the group to go out with him”, he remembers about the “Fenomeno”. Ronaldo then weighed 94 kilos according to Capello, or 12 kilos more than during the 2002 World Cup. And the Italian coach decided to part with him.
But even though he wanted Ronaldo to leave, Capello advised AC Milan against signing him. “Berlusconi asked me for advice and I advised him not to do it, I told him that he was a party animal and that he only thought about being surrounded by women,” confided the former Rossoneri coach. But Berlusconi didn’t listen, and Ronaldo joined Milan in January 2007.
Ronaldo isn’t the only one Capello has had issues with. There was also the gourmand Antonio Cassano. “He asked for fries before every match, which was unacceptable, deplores Capello. I got more angry with the cook than with him. I didn’t understand. »
