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Cristiano Ronaldo said “no” when Andrey Arshavin approached him to exchange T-shirts after the game, the Arsenal star recalled in an interview with Russia’s Sport channel.

“I never wanted to exchange T-shirts with anybody,” Arsavin said. “But once my wife asked me to do it with Cristiano Ronaldo, but I couldn’t fulfill her request. Why so? I don’t know, he just didn’t want to exchange T-shirts with me.”

The players met on the field during World Cup 2006 qualifiers, when Russia and Portugal were in the same group, and they may face each other again in this year’s UEFA Champions League.