Cristiano Ronaldo pressures the referee to send off Wayne Rooney at the 2006 World Cup

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Being part of an extraordinary event that only takes place every 4 years, may become a difficult equation for some, and because fate usually intervenes at the last minute, the edges of the equation are sometimes complete, to make some heroes in a shot, or cause exciting facts that will not be erased from the memory of football fans no matter how many years go by.

Among the events of the 2006 World Cup edition, specifically in a quarter-final match brought England together with Portugal.

To be a witness to a bizarre incident in Germany's Feltens Arena Stadium, its Portuguese champions Cristiano Ronaldo and England's Wayne Rooney, were the duo who had long been involved in leading Manchester United in the Premier League.

When Ronaldo sent Wayne Rooney off

Although England's game against Portugal in the quarter-finals of the 2006 World Cup was very routine and did not witness exciting moments at either end, England star Wayne Rooney decided to become the hero of a bizarre reality that occurred in the 62nd minute of the meeting.

At that moment, an intervention occurred between Portugal duo Beattie and Ricardo Carvalho and England striker Wayne Rooney, the former pushing the latter to the ground, in a shot that Ronnie was waiting to be fair to the match referee and reckoned with any mistake even.

But the meeting referee did not count anything and allowed the match to be completed naturally, and here Ronnie intervened, who became angry.

In a scene Wayne Rooney recently came out to describe it as "the most bad feeling one can live! "The England star decided to attack Carvalho from behind to grab his foot and drop him to the ground in an odd way, but because Carvalho succeeded in extracting the ball from Ronnie as he sat on the ground, the Englishman barged him with a stroke between his legs completely immorally! What made Carvalho scream so hard of pain.

Here Wayne Rooney's tournament ended in that scene, and Cristiano Ronaldo began kidnapping his camera with what he did later. The cameras spotted him going towards the referee to press him to punish his Manchester United teammate Wayne Rooney, and immediately show him the red card in the face!

Gary Neville, the duo's Manchester United teammate Ronnie and Ronaldo, testified to what the Portuguese was doing near the referee, deciding to run at him to keep him out of the scene so that it would not cause the relationship between him and Ronnie to deteriorate later!

But after Ronaldo and Neville completely retreated from the scene, everyone remained inside the pitch and behind television screens everywhere in anticipation of the arena umpire's decision, which went quietly to Rooney's face for a red card.

That red card may have made Ronaldo very happy, and the cameras even spotted him sending a "wink" from his eye to one of the players on the seats of Portugal's substitutes.

There's a narrative that says, Wayne Rooney noticed what Ronaldo had done and he directed out-of-the-field words.

Ronnie's admission of sin and Ronaldo's lack of remorse for his act

Rooney recounted the details of that recent incident to the Times and said, "I assaulted Carvalho with my feet in a snapshot in which I never thought of my mind, it was a reaction to not counting anything wrong with me on the part of the referee, it was quite clear to me but it wasn't counted."

Ronnie continued his tale to the Times: "I knew the referee would show me the red card when I saw him progress towards me, and I actually completed the rest of the game in front of a small screen inside the dressing room."

Rooney says of his feelings at that moment: "He controlled my thinking only one thing; If we win the game, I'll be suspended in my semi-final and final, but if we lose, I'll be the only offender here. That was my worst feeling with football. "

Ronaldo was one of the soccer stars featured in the short film of Rooney's life, "Man Behind Goals", in which he admitted not to be remorseful or saddened by Rooney's expulsion in that match.

Ronaldo said in the short film about that controversial moment: "We spoke later together, Ronnie understands my point of view then, we thought about the future and we did what we should do for Manchester United, we scored more goals together and now we are still good friends."

As for Rooney and his question about what happened after that shot with Ronaldo, he replied in his talk with Times: "I was feeling angry at him at first, but when I sat in the dressing room alone and thought about it very well I felt he was right."

He continued: "It was natural to put himself in this situation, I didn't have a problem with him later, I spoke to him in the tunnel as he walked off the field, but that night he was my opponent, I'm English and he's Portuguese, we're both fighting for his country, and later we're back in one team again."

The game had already ended with Portugal winning 3-1 with fortune kicks, but collided with France in the semi-final, and Ronaldo and his comrades did not hold on as they lost the game with a clean goal by Zinedine Zidane.