Vince Lombardi He is one of the most important men in the history of sports. Vince Lombardi was a guru, almost a god, of soccerso much so that the trophy of the Super Bowlthe icing on the cake of one of the biggest sporting events of each year, bears his name.
And Lombarbi, in addition to many quotes and phrases, left a unique truth that was not even painted after the trajectory of the one who is already considered by all to be one of the great monsters of world sport and the best tennis player of all time, the Mallorcan Rafael Nadal Parera: “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
If anyone’s in doubt, Nadal became the best tennis player of all time today, at night, Australian Dawn, by winning his 21st Grand Slam and breaking the bond with two other monsters: Roger Federer Y Novak Djokovic. and Nadal, ‘rafita’achieved this by coming out of hell, overcoming six horrible months without competing, an injury that has no cure and a last minute covid-19, in full preparation for the Open in Australia. He’s already the best (for the moment) and he is after showing that his head is harder than his body and that, when one puts work first, he eventually becomes the best in history.
stay alive
He said this the other day: “I’m proud to be physically alive & rdquor;. And it’s that Nadal (and all his amazing team, led by Carlos Moya) was given a new opportunity when he did not even know if he could play tennis again with the broken scaphoid in his left foot, not compete, not win, to compete!
Nadal did not travel to Melbourne for his 21st Grand Slam, Nadal did not chase glory (he has tons of it and deservedly so) on that trip to Australia. Nadal wanted to feel alive, recovered, competitive, finally a tennis player. “Rafa has worked very, very hard in recent months to try to start again and he did it with great intensity and sacrifice, but with a lot of uncertainty due to the evolution of his left foot. And when he was ready to get on the plane, on his way to Australia, he contracted covid-19 and had a terrible time & rdquor ;, says a member of his team.
But Nadal has something very few: self-esteem and an incredible ability to overcome. His only goal was to get excited again, to be competitive again, to enjoy tennis. And he succeeded. The epic, tremendous victory, one of those that will enter the history of tennis (like so many others from Manacor), was not in his plans, but when he reached the final, that spirit, that body, that team, that passion transformed and makes not even losing the first two sets an obstacle to achieving his greatest victory of all time. As Lombardi would say, success was his job, his sacrifice, to be there again, in the place where only the best, the only, the privileged are.
quite an example
And to do it above all with manners, style, personality and the ‘taranna’ that only Rafa Nadal owns. Nadal would not be able to ‘show’ Novak Djokovic and even less of fraud to enter Australia. Nadal would not have been able to make a comb for the public like he did Nick Kyrgios in the doubles semi-final. Nadal would never have thought of justifying a defeat by calling it “corrupt” to the referee, as he did Denis Shapovalov. I would never have called Nadal “imbecile”! the Spanish chair referee Jaume Campistol as he did Daniel Medwedef.
It can, yes, be considered by many to be excessively correct, even impeccably perfect. May. But Rafael Nadal Parera, 35 years old and already with 21 major titles in his showcase, just wants to continue to enjoy himself on the track and, if the no less tremendous John McEnroemakes others enjoy with his physical display and tennis to the extreme.
praise
“You see Nadal playing and you wonder where this guy is coming from? & Rdquor ;, McEnroe explains.” I never thought tennis could be played like that. Without a doubt he is the one who puts the most love and passion on the court. We all believed that if we saw him play with so much intensity for the last 15 years, he could not last long, but he was surrounded by an incredible team and he is a person you rarely meet in life, one who overcomes all bodily problems with the mind.He has a mental power that is insane, to the point where he has maintained a positive attitude when most people have turned off, discouraged or already given up.I hope it lasts more years like this! & rdquor;
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That’s how it is Rafael Nadal Parera, someone who pursues success with work, with passion, with intense and unparalleled dedication, consciously, consciously, that he is in the final of a Grand Slam today as a reward for his sacrifice and dedication. And to live out that new (old) experience after six desperate months of uncertainty is his greatest success. The usual. You see, a new life lesson. Five hours and 24 minutes that we will never forget, like so many other achievements of this example of a unique athlete.
As the big one would say Kantinflas “I do the difficult immediately, for the impossible it takes a little longer”.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com