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Speaking before England host Brazil in a
friendly at Wembley on Tuesday, Rashford said he was a
five-year-old spectator at Old Trafford when Real knocked United
out 6-5 on aggregate in the quarter-finals.
After the game, he and his brother Dwaine began scouring YouTube
for clips of the Brazilian.
"It's all those clips ...and my first ever game that I saw live,
he was playing in it. I always remember it. It was in 2003 and
he scored a hat-trick," Rashford, who has netted seven times for
United in all competitions this season, told British media."
Rashford came in for high praise from Ronaldo in the build-up to
last year's European championships, when the Brazilian World Cup
winner said the 20-year-old Englishman reminded him of his
younger self.
"He was my brother's favourite player - that's why I've grown up
watching so much of him and his games... So when you know he's
saying good things about you then it really stands out,"
Rashford said.
England, who won eight of their 10 World Cup qualifying games
and were unbeaten in Group F, held world champions Germany to a
goalless draw in a friendly on Friday. (Reporting by Shrivathsa
Sridhar in Bengaluru; editing by John Stonestreet)
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