Published 19:33 IST, September 4th 2021

Rooney and Ronaldo's picture resurfaces online; fans amazed at how the duo has aged

Wayne Rooney is almost nine months younger than Cristiano Ronaldo but has retired from professional football and now is the head coach at Derby County.

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Cristiano Ronaldo has rejoined Manchester United after spending nine years at Spanish club Real Mrid and n three years at Serie A club Juventus. Ronaldo h spent six years at United initially where he developed as a footballer to become one of greatest players in history of sport.

During his initial stint at United, he formed a close bond with English forward Wayne Rooney and two were dely toger. Rooney is almost nine months younger than Ronaldo but has retired from professional football and is now he coach at Derby County. Some fans on Twitter decided to compare two on how y look now and two look entirely different.

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A user n pointed out AC Milan's Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who is three years older than Ronaldo, and still in fine shape. It will be interesting to see if Ronaldo will continue to play three years from now. However, given his current physique, not many would doubt that.

Here is an image of Rooney and Ronaldo back from United's tour in 2014 when y came up against Real Mrid when latter was playing for m.

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Ronaldo and Rooney enjoyed a successful relationship at Manchester United during ir time toger. two played 206 times toger over five years and won three Premier League titles and Champions League among or major honours.

Speaking about Cristiano Ronaldo's return to Manchester United, Rooney told Telegraph, 

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"Cristiano is still one of best players in world and has won titles everywhere he’s been so he’s going to be huge. He still wants to be best and I'm sure he will have a big impact on m this season. Ole (Gunnar Solskjaer) will certainly know that he's in a position now where he needs to start winning se big titles with players that he's brought in. For ir development, to get to next step now is to start winning titles."

Ronaldo and Rooney's sons to play toger at Manchester United Acemy

According to a report by Mirror, Manchester United will soon see Cristiano Ronaldo Junior playing with Kai Rooney in Red Devils' youth team. Cristiano Ronaldo's sensational return to Manchester United has been making helines ever since its initial announcement on August 27. Now, it seems like Ronaldo has decided to enrol his eldest son with club that sowed seeds for his rise to stardom.

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(Image Credits: @selecaoportugal - Twitter/ AP)

19:33 IST, September 4th 2021