Cristiano Ronaldo gave recommendation to Tottenham’s Dejan Kulusevski (Photograph by Yasser Bakhsh/Getty Photos)
Dejan Kulusevski has been one among Tottenham’s high performers this season, and the Swedish worldwide has revealed that Cristiano Ronaldo’s recommendation has helped him obtain his present degree of efficiency.
The 24-year-old has been a key a part of any success Spurs have had this season and though the previous Juventus star has just one purpose and two assists to his identify all through the opening part of the 2024/25 marketing campaign, Kulusevski has been instrumental within the quantity ten position for Ange Postecoglu’s crew.
Kulusevski’s worth carries over to the nationwide crew, and the Tottenham expertise was a part of Sweden’s 2-2 draw with Slovakia within the UEFA Nations League on Friday, while sporting the captain’s armband.
The Nordic nation are again in motion on Monday night time in opposition to Estonia and forward of that recreation, Kulusevski has unveiled that recommendation from former Juventus teammate Cristiano Ronaldo has helped him obtain his present degree of efficiency.
The duo performed collectively in Turin throughout the 2020/21 marketing campaign and it appears that evidently the Tottenham star has not forgotten that interval in his profession.
Tottenham’s Dejan Kulusevski remembers Cristiano Ronaldo’s recommendation
Talking to Fotboll Skanalen, Kulusevski shared what has modified for him mentally this season and has revealed that he’s starting to grasp some recommendation he obtained from former Juventus teammate Cristiano Ronaldo.
“To not be glad with being good, however to be the very best every single day,” the 24-year-old stated through talkSPORT about what has modified for him this season. “That’s the one factor that issues. As arduous as it’s to attempt to be the very best.
“I believe that you just be taught over time, that you just start to grasp rather more about how the world and the mind work. You’ll be able to’t be 17 and know all the things.
“Sure, I all the time change. I’m beginning to get to know my physique. Once I was youthful, I didn’t perceive when [Cristiano] Ronaldo informed me: ‘You’re going to get to know your physique’. As a result of I didn’t know my physique then.
“However now I’m beginning to perceive my strengths and weaknesses, how I can enhance. So I really feel like all the things is getting simpler.
“I understand how to coach the day earlier than a match, two days earlier than a match, what to do once I’m drained and so forth. All of the little particulars that in the long run make an enormous distinction.”
