Cristiano Ronaldo and a special visit to Real Madrid's training in Riyadh: "Good finale, huh!

• Vicente Moreno The jump from LaLiga to Saudi football: "We balance the hours of prayer and training, there are no psychologists and in nutrition... we have to convince them"

It was one of the most anticipated moments of the week in

, home of the

.

The public greeting between

and the

expedition was resisting.

There were approaches on Tuesday, when the white team trained at the

facilities in the run-up to the semifinals against

, but it was not until this Friday when the Portuguese and the Madrid squad embraced.

A few minutes after the start of the session for

's men on the pitch at the Saudi team's sports complex, Cristiano left the tunnel to the changing rooms and walked to the benches to chat with the Madrid coaching staff.

"

", he joked with the press who captured the moment in the stands.

There he spoke for a long time with

, Dr.

,

and Ancelotti himself, whom he had as a coach between

.

"Is the grass okay?" He joked with the Italian.

"

!" He commented on Sunday's classic against

.

From the bench, Cristiano also hesitated to some of his former teammates, who were doing exercises on the grass at the time: "

!", he asked during rounds.

Later, the Portuguese dressed in shorts for the Al-Nassr training session, which had the session just after Madrid's, and coincided with

to take photos.

The latter has him as one of his great idols and they had not coincided until now.

The Riyadh team will play this Saturday a league match against

in which Cristiano will not be present either, still sanctioned by the English Federation.

His debut will be next week, first in the friendly against

on Thursday, and then in the league on Sunday against Al-Ettifaq, his team's great rival.

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