Nadal, the people's champion

In these surveys carried out every year by brewers To know who the Spaniards would choose to go clubbing always turns out (as in Roland Garros, by the way) the same winner: Rafa Nadal. If the question were changed to ask who would vote as Prime Minister, surely the name would be the same. If you found yourself at sea on the brink of a shipwreck and were given the choice of a companion, you would also have little doubt. If anyone was not going to give up and keep rowing, that's him. Tell it to Roger Federer or Novak Djokovic... Nadal is thus something more than a sportsman. It is ours. Intangible heritage. He is in the category of ‘Champion of the people’ in which only those who show as many sporting as human qualities enter.

And it is that, like we have seen him shed tears with your twenty grand slams, We were also shocked when he took a brush to drain water shoulder to shoulder with his neighbors from Sant Llorenç in the floods of 2018. Without posturing. Or when next to Iker Casillas met many of his friends a couple of years ago to raise money against malaria. Then he started his Foundation to help young people with intellectual disabilities and integrate vulnerable minors.

During the pandemic, the winner of everything, could not sit still because he lives in this world, not in a bubble, now that they are talked about so much. With another great colleague, Pau Gasol, he has added 14 million euros for the Red Cross (So ​​many good things can be done with 14 million …) to try to alleviate the COVID-19 disaster. And by the way, you also pay your taxes here. Not in Andorra, Switzerland or Monte Carlo. Things worth as much as your grand twenty. As if not to go out with Rafa.