Sporting CP youth coach Aurelio Pereira has compared the talent and work ethic of Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo with that of iconic music composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Pereira was discussing the Portuguese forward ahead of Tuesday’s showdown between Sporting and Madrid, which will see Ronaldo return to the club at which he started his decorated career. Pereira thinks, like the genius Mozart, the Los Blancos star showed all the tools to succeed from a very young age.
“They say that when Mozart was six years old he had already done 3,500 hours of practice on the piano,” he told AS (h/t Dermot Corrigan of ESPN FC).