Ronaldo was asked to name the worst players he’s played alongside for Brazil and at club level (Romario TV)
Ronaldo has named former Real Madrid midfielder Thomas Gravesen as the worst-ever player he’s played with.
Brazil’s legendary No.9 spent five seasons at Madrid and was a key figure in the club’s Galacticos era.
Gravesen, meanwhile, joined Madrid in a surprise £2.5 million move from Everton in January 2005 and made 49 appearances for the Spanish side.
The Denmark international spent two seasons alongside Ronaldo at Madrid and while the Brazilian striker insists he was a ‘cool guy’ he claimed the former defensive midfielder was ‘very bad’ on the pitch.
In an interview with fellow Brazil legend Romario, Ronaldo was asked to name the worst player he’d ever played alongside.
‘There are a lot of them,’ Ronaldo replied.
Ronaldo says Thomas Gravesen ‘beat the hell out of people’ (Getty)
‘There was one at Real Madrid who was a joke… Gravesen.
‘He was a Danish midfielder. He was a really cool guy, good guy. A little while ago he won a $50 million poker tournament or something.
‘But in football he was very bad, he scored and he beat the hell out of people.’
Asked to name the worst technical player he had played with for Brazil’s national team, Ronaldo replied: ‘Amaral was bad with the ball, wasn’t he?
‘But he ran, he caught everything, he recovered 10 balls and gave away nine.’
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