Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo made a rather quiet debut for Real Madrid on Monday when his Spanish side scraped to a 1-0 friendly win over Irish side Shamrock Rovers in Dublin.
Big-money signing Ronaldo played 45 minutes and his every touch was booed by treble capacity of over 10,000 fans.
Fellowin new signing Karim Benzema spared the Spanish side's blushes, striking three minutes from time.
Despite resting five leading players, the hosts matched their opponents in the first half.
Ronaldo drew the biggest cheer of the first half when his free kick went well wide and a second effort tamely struck the wall 15 minutes late.
Ronaldo played no further part as new Real coach Manuel Pellegrini made nine changes at halftime.
In their recent spending spree, Real inked checks worth more than 200 million euros to bring in Brazilian playmaker Kaka, Benzema besides world player of the year Ronaldo.
(Xinhua News Agency July 21, 2009)
