Cristiano Ronaldo did damage to Juventus: “I was injured because of him”

Kaio Jorge granted, this Saturday, an extensive interview to YouTube channel ‘Podpah TV‘, in which he spent his career ‘clean’, without forgetting, of course is, the (short) passage by Juventus, between the acquisition to Santos, in the summer of 2021, for about seven million euros, the loan to Frosinone and subsequent sale to Cruzeiro, three years later, appreciably, for the same amount.

The advance arrived in Turin at the age of 18, labeled as one of the biggest promises of Brazilian football, but failed to put into practice the qualities that were recognized to him, so that he ended up playing only 11 games, without any goal in the middle. Still, thanks for the opportunity to meet Cristiano Ronaldo: “I started having lunch with him, I was going to warm up and he called me to ride beside him... He hugged me twice.”.

“ He exchanged ideas, both with young people and with the most experienced guys. He liked to give food lectures at dinnertime, because he attended nutrition directs here in Brazil, so for food issues, he is cracked. If I'm eating wrong he says so. I'd ask him... He ate lots of rice, quinoa, lots of salmon. Just fish. I eat fish, but like it does not give”, he said.

“ He only spoke in Portuguese, because he spoke English, so he said ‘I don’t need to speak Italian if I speak English...’. The Italians were angry with him”, he added among laughs, recalling the “bad” chocolates that the Portuguese international ate, as well as the teaching that “there is something in the past meat beyond the point that does not do well”.

“One day, I was riding with him before practice, and he asked ‘What are you like? Do you like going to the party or something?’. I answered. ‘I'm quiet’. I was still getting to know life. He said ‘This is it, do you drink?’, and I said ‘No’. He answered. ‘One day you will drink, but if you only have a glass of wine, when it is 1:00 in the morning, you will go home and rest’. I got that in my head. But who leaves at 1:00 in the morning when the day is beginning? It is difficult...”, he recalled.

“I was injured because of Cristiano Ronaldo”

However, Kaio Jorge stressed, the best part was actually learning from Cristiano Ronaldo: In the field, he told me he was picking up the ball a lot. He said ‘So you won’t score goals. You have to attack more space’, which today is my forte. He and Allegri said ‘You're picking up a lot of the ball on your foot, you're not scoring goals’. I answered. ‘No such thing, I have to float, even’”.

“They said ‘Start to stay more in the line of defense, and when others catch the ball, you shoot’. One, two years later, I started doing this a little bit and it started to work (...). He trains what he needs, finishing and speed. If he's been through a lot, he starts complaining. Say ‘I have to score goals’, and I liked to do the specific for him”, he pointed.

“ The finishing training, he was riding for it. It wasn't the other people that passed, really. It's not like he trained ten shots. He shot 30 with his right and 30 with his left. So much so that, about three months after I got there, I was injured because of him. He said ‘Let’s have a competition’, and I said ‘Let’s go’. He called Moise Kean and [Nicolò] Fagioli, and it was me and Matthijs of Ligt”, he continued.

“ It was just lemonade, right, left, far away... It was 30 with the right, 30 with the left. In the latter, with the left, I went for a slap and the femoral rectum ‘Tum’. Man, I felt it. So I went to the infirmary to see the doctor (...). It's impressive, it ends well with both, with the same strength and accuracy. When a shot goes wrong, it gets...”, he concluded.