CRISTIANO RONALDO JR TRAINS LIKE HIS FATHER 🤯
Cristiano Ronaldo Junior is getting ready to start his professional career in football. In this video, Inside Football will show you unique footage of the young Portuguese's training, what he is focusing on and reveal the goals Junior has set for himself. Let's get started!
How Cristiano Jr trains
Cristiano Junior plays for the Al-Nassr youth team, but his preparations are not limited to training and playing with the team. Like his father, he works hard on the sidelines.
He has a personal trainer and improves various important skills for a football player overtime. If we look at the footage of Junior's training, we can identify three main aspects that he is working hard on.
The first is balance and coordination. Each of these exercises that you see on the screen now helps to improve these skills in one way or another. Concentrating on such points is not surprising at all, and his father's influence is clearly felt here.
CR7 understands that for an attacking player, the ability to stay on your feet and quickly navigate in space is what makes the difference on the football field. In particular, well-developed balance and coordination allow a player to shoot even in the most complicated situations.
Given that Cristiano Junior is also an attacking player, working on these skills will definitely benefit him.
The number two priority in the youngster's training is explosiveness. The ability to get ahead of the opponent at the start is the bread and butter for a striker. Cristiano Ronaldo is well aware of this, as he has scored more than a dozen goals this way.
You can see the explosiveness exercises now on the screen. We would like to highlight running on sand. Running on such a surface is much harder, but such training will provide you with a good starting speed. Another advantage is that it is accessible to everyone. You don't need to have special equipment or a personal trainer for that.
React, start, be the first on the ball - if Cristiano Junior continues to develop these skills, he will have a huge advantage over his peers.
And the third key point is strength. It's not about the need to get bigger, it's about having a strong body. For an offensive player, it's important to be not only fast but also resilient in tackles.
Cristiano Ronaldo has become who he is because of his body strength, among other things. This is something he has always been ahead of most wingers. And this is what allowed him to easily switch from the left winger to the center-forward position over time.
There are also interesting exercises that simulate tackles with the opponent in matches. In this way, Cristiano Junior will feel much more comfortable in real game situations and minimize the loss of the ball, for example, after throw ins.
We should mention that these additional training sessions are not the only ones that the young man puts himself through. He also works with specialists from APEX, a company that provides individual training for football players. Exercises are customized for the player according to his position, and the process is closely monitored by coaches.
So Cristiano Junior, as a winger, has a special program designed to improve the qualities required for his position.
The 14-year-old's work ethic is impressive. Like this video if you admire the professionalism with which Junior approaches his career at such a young age.
He is serious
Cristiano Ronaldo's eldest son does all this for a reason. In order to achieve your ambitions, this is exactly how you need to work. And the guy has, frankly, quite big ambitions. His goal is to surpass his father!
He told me he will be better than me. He tells me he will win a Ballon d'Or and that he can win five, - shared the words of his son CR7.
Any journey begins with the first step. Now the young man's words may be taken as a joke. After all, his father won the Champions League, the Ballon d'Or and the Golden Boot multiple times. Add to that a Euro victory, 7 league titles in different countries, and countless goalscoring records.
But if you don't dream big, you're unlikely to reach the top. Cristiano Junior has set himself a goal and is already on his way. Of course, this path will be divided into certain milestones, which we will now share with you.
His first big goal is to get into the Portuguese U-15 national team. In teenage days, every year of difference makes a huge difference, because the body grows and develops very quickly. Cristiano has just turned 14, and competing with 15-year-olds is not an easy task.
However, he has at least one year to achieve his goal. The determination with which the boy works is impressive, and we will not be surprised if he will get his call-up at the age of 14.
The second milestone is to get into the Al-Nassr first team and make his debut in senior football.