“I know how difficult it was for my parents to help me try to fulfill my dream”

Rafael Nadal highlighted this Thursday the values ​​transmitted by his academy in Manacor (Mallorca) in the academic and sports training of students. “The academy is a very special project for me,” says the Spanish tennis player. The Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar has completed four years since its foundation, and Nadal has released a video in which he underlines the importance of having a “complete pack for children to have everything”.

“I have been young and I know how difficult it was for my parents to be able to help me try to fulfill my dream. In the end it was school on the one hand, training on the other, tournaments on the other hand, with which there were many things and very complicated and took a long time, “explains the number 2 tennis player in the world. “That is why here at the Academy we were always clear that we needed to have a complete 'pack' for children to have everything. I'm not saying they should have it easy, because I think easy things lose value and they need not everything to be easy in order to forge their character. ” Nadal points out that those responsible for the academy and himself want “that children have things within reach when they really need them: medical center, physical training, tennis facilities, etc, “he adds.

“Obviously, one of the most important things is school, an international school in which children do not lose one thing that I understand is vital for the future of most of them: academic training and education,” said Rafa . According to Nadal, “Another main objective is for children to leave here with important and positive values. And that the learning and experience they may have had at the Academy will help them to form humanly and leave here prepared to dedicate themselves to whatever they decide. “The Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar “combines high performance sports education and school teaching in order to train good tennis players, applied students and great people for society”, they point out from the academy.