De Ligt wants to build on Ronaldo's success at 'historic' United
New Manchester United defender Matthijs de Ligt said he grew up watching Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney
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00:00Yeah, of course. There's a lot of history in this club. I mean, if you look at, I mean, I grew up with the team of United, of Cristiano Ronaldo, Vidić, Ferdinand, Wayne Rooney, Paul Scholes, Edwin van der Sar, the Dutchman.
00:14There's so much history in this club. And I'm now speaking about 20 years ago, but like even more like when they won the Champions League, the treble, it's like such a big historic club.
00:24And you can feel this already, that's in the air here. Obviously, I haven't seen the stadium yet. So I think there, if I go there, it's also like you could breathe the history.
00:34And it's just amazing that I can be part now of this club. He has played a big part, to be fair. He was the first trainer who made me captain. I was 18 years old and he just gave me so much confidence.
00:46He told me right from the start, like, you're an example for the team and I want you to be captain. And I would have never expected that at that moment, but it was such a great honour.
00:57And just the confidence he gave me at that time, at that age, was really special for me.