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Juan Cuadrado has welcomed Cristiano Ronaldo to Juventus by handing his new team-mate the No 7 shirt he wore last season.

Five-time Ballon d'Or winner Ronaldo completed a £100million move from Real Madrid to the Serie A champions on Tuesday, becoming their record signing.

His CR7 branding has become iconic, and Juve chiefs were spared an awkward situation when Cuadrado opted to voluntarily hand over the shirt number. 

On Instagram, Cuadrado said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive blessings.'  

Ronaldo, 33, has almost exclusively worn the No 7 shirt for both Manchester United and Real Madrid, wearing No 9 for the Spanish giants in 2009/10 when club legend Raul occupied his preferred number.

A similar thing happened at Paris Saint-Germain in 2017, when Argentine Javier Pastore gifted world-record signing Neymar his No 10 shirt.

Cuadrado, 30, joined Juventus on loan from Chelsea in 2016 and was issued with No 16 before switching to No 7 when his transfer was made permanent last summer.

He has recently returned from the World Cup, where he made four appearances and scored once as Colombia lost on penalties to England in the last-16.

His new team-mate also suffered a last-16 defeat, as Portugal fell 2-1 to Uruguay, although Ronaldo managed four goals in four games.

It has not been revealed which number Cuadrado will now wear instead.