Evra: If Cristiano Ronaldo invites you over for lunch, just say no Football "He is an angry man"

Almost anybody who has played with Cristiano Ronaldo has spoken of his dedication to the game of football and few have witnessed it so vividly as Patrice Evra.

When the pair were playing for Manchester United, the Portuguese winger invited his teammate over for lunch after training with Evra getting more than he bargained for.

"I would give advice to anybody, when Cristiano invites you for lunch at his house, just say no," he remarked on ITV's World Cup podcast.

"He said: 'Patrice, come over after training'. I went [and] you know I was really tired. At the table there was only salad and plain white chicken so I was like 'okay...', and water, not any juice.

"We started eating and I was thinking some big meat would be coming after that but there was nothing. He had just finished and he stood up and he started playing with a ball, doing some skills and he said: 'Let's do some two touch'.

"I was like 'can I just finish eating?' [Ronaldo replied] 'No, no let's play two-touch'.

"We start playing two touch. After that he said let's go to the pool to swim, I was like 'okay...' after going in the jacuzzi, the sauna, I'm done. I said: 'Cristiano why have we come here, have we come here because we have a game tomorrow, or just for lunch?'.

"So that's why I would recommend to anyone when Cristiano invite you to his house, don't go. Just say no because this guy, he's a machine, he doesn't want to stop training."

In another anecdote, Evra reveals how Rio Ferdinand's table tennis victory over Ronaldo set off his determined streak to be the best in that sport as well.

"They were playing table tennis and Rio beat [Ronaldo], and we were all screaming and he was so upset," added the Frenchman.

"Then he sent his cousin to buy a table tennis set, he trained for two weeks at home and he came back and he beat Rio in front of everyone.

"So that's Cristiano Ronaldo, that's why I'm not surprised today why he wants to win another Ballon d'Or, why he wants to win the World Cup.

"Because he's an angry man."