Cristiano Ronaldo got revenge on Jose Mourinho in fine style in pre-season

Pre-season is generally a low-key time of fitness drills, worldwide tours and friendlies played at a gentle pace – but sometimes they contain drama too.

Back in the summer of 2013, there was plenty of drama to go around. The setting was the International Champions Cup final at the Sun Life Stadium in Miami. Chelsea were taking on Real Madrid to be crowned champions of the pre-season tournament, but the match was really all about the subtext.

Jose Mourinho was the manager of Chelsea, having left Real after what he called "the worst of my career" in the 2012/13 campaign. With a final against the club he spent the previous three years at, there was bound to be plenty of personal feeling involved in the match.

That was especially true when it came to Cristiano Ronaldo. In general, the two Portuguese egos got on very well in general during their time together in Madrid – Ronaldo scored an absurd total of 168 goals in 164 games after all. Mourinho won La Liga and the Copa del Rey on the back of Ronaldo’s goals, but the final stages of their working relationship was defined by strain.

That atmosphere is best told in Guillem Balague's book Cristiano Ronaldo: The Biography, which details plenty of eyebrow-raising arguments. One of those came in 2013 and took place in the Real dressing room after a win over Valencia and centred around something as innocuous as Ronaldo taking a throw-in hurriedly so Mesut Ozil couldn’t control it.

As Balague tells it, Mourinho took issue with Ronaldo in front of the other players, which prompted the forward to erupt: "After everything I've done for you, this is how you treat me? How dare you say that to me!" The dressing room fell silent, prompting Mourinho to respond: "I was saying it