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Published 12:45 19 Jun 2018 BST
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"He said, 'Patrice, come over after training.' I went. You know I was really tired, [and] at the table there was only salad and plain white chicken so I was like, okay - and water - not any juice," Evra said. "And we started eating and I was thinking some big meat would be coming after that but there was nothing."
"He just finished and he stood up and he started playing with a ball, doing some skills and he said, 'Let's do some two-touch'."
On the same podcast, Evra also recounted a tale of just how competitive Ronaldo is, even off the pitch, using a story about the time the Real Madrid forward lost a game of table tennis to former Manchester United centre-back Rio Ferdinand. "They were playing table tennis and Rio beat him and we were all screaming and Ronaldo was so upset," Evra revealed. "He trained for two weeks at home and he came back and he beat Rio in front of everyone. That’s Cristiano Ronaldo."
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