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Rafa Benitez has denied rumours that he tried to teach Cristiano Ronaldo how to better take free-kicks and Luka Modric to stop passing with the outside of his foot during his time as Real Madrid boss.
The reports emerged after Benitez was sacked by Madrid in January 2016, just seven months after he took charge of the club, per Goal's Joe Wright.
On Ronaldo's free-kicks, he told Marca's Juan Castro and Alberto Rubio:
"It's a lie. At no time did I do that. The only time we discussed free-kicks was in Australia.