Cristiano Ronaldo: Footage of Jose Mourinho explaining his 'first time' playing at striker

Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the greatest footballers – and strikers – of all time.

Having scored over 800 goals throughout his mammoth career and winning just about everything there is to win along the way, it’s hard to dispute his status as arguably the greatest player ever.

He is without doubt in the conversation. And what makes his body of work even more remarkable is seeing his career path, where he transitioned from a tricky winger into the most lethal number nine imaginable.

Ronaldo is a bona fide penalty box poacher. Get the ball in and around him within that 18-yard box and he will more than likely find a way to get it into the back of the net.

His abilities in front of goal are frightening, and stuff you’d genuinely think was unteachable at times. From his detailed, intricate movements to create space, to his freakish heading ability, positioning and unrelenting shot power, he really has everything you’d want in a striker if you were able to design one from scratch.

So to know that all of those qualities were once that Ronaldo did consciously go and learn is incredible. And not only did he learn such a difficult craft – he mastered it.

Ronaldo was always electric as a left winger in his younger days and absolutely was at elite levels, but it was him morphing into a forward that has cemented his legacy. We saw ever so slight glimpses of it during his first spell at United, but it was while at Real Madrid where he began to transition properly.

A fascinating insight into where it properly began for Ronaldo as a central striker has gone viral on Twitter, with @Luukinho9 posting footage of Jose Mourinho discussing the transition and it gaining over 4,500 retweets and almost 30,000 ‘likes’ at the time of writing.

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