![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/rooney-says-2006-world-cup-red-card-brought-him-and-ronaldo-closer-together/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/SPORT-PREVIEW-ROONEY-RONALDO.jpg&description=WAYNE ROONEY admits getting sent off in the 2006 World Cup quarter-final is the 'worst feeling' he has experienced in football - but he doesn't blame Cristiano Ronaldo. And incredibly, the Old Trafford legend says his moment of shame actually brought him and the Portuguese icon closer together after clear-the-air talks in the tunnel after the game. Wayne Rooney was given his marching orders for stamping on Ricardo CarvalhoCredit: News Group Newspapers Ltd TV cameras picked up Ronaldo's wink after demanding the red card be shownCredit: BBC England faced Portugal in the Gelsenkirchen showdown feeling confident of progressing but were dragged to penalties and knocked out with their star striker dismissed. After 61 minutes of the stalemate, Rooney tangled with Ricardo Carvalho and stamped on the then-Chelsea defender, receiving his marching orders from referee Horacio Elizondo. But much of the furore back home was focused on the striker's Manchester United team-mate Ronaldo, for protesting to the referee that Rooney had to walk and soon after being seen to deliver a cheeky wink. Writing in the Sunday Times in April 2020, now-DC United manager Rooney recalled: "The game was going OK. Then, early in the second half, came my red card. "It was a reaction to the referee not giving me a free kick. There was a clear foul, the former Chelsea defender Ricardo Carvalho was pulling and pushing me and Petit came in from the other side. "Elizondo did nothing and I planted my foot down on Carvalho — it one of those moments when you're not thinking. "I knew it was a red card and back in the dressing room I watched the rest of the game on a little TV, thinking: 'If we win this, I'm suspended for a World Cup semi-final and final and if we lose it's my fault'. It was the worst, weirdest feeling I've had in football. "I had my phone in my hand and I was getting all these messages about Ronaldo. "Of course, when he ran over to ask Elizondo to send me off I pushed him away. In that moment I){kind=link}
WAYNE ROONEY admits getting sent off in the 2006 World Cup quarter-final is the ‘worst feeling’ he has experienced in football – but he doesn’t blame Cristiano Ronaldo.
And incredibly, the Old Trafford legend says his moment of shame actually brought him and the Portuguese icon closer together after clear-the-air talks in the tunnel after the game.
England faced Portugal in the Gelsenkirchen showdown feeling confident of progressing but were dragged to penalties and knocked out with their star striker dismissed.
After 61 minutes of the stalemate, Rooney tangled with Ricardo Carvalho and stamped on the then-Chelsea defender, receiving his marching orders from referee Horacio Elizondo.
But much of the furore back home was focused on the striker’s Manchester United team-mate Ronaldo, for protesting to the referee that Rooney had to walk and soon after being seen to deliver a cheeky wink.