Carlos Alcaraz is included in the list of athletes who have a shitterthe traditional figure of the Catalan nativity scene, after winning the Wimbledon tournament on Sunday.
The company caganer.com, based in Torroella de Montgrí (Girona), has been making them for years using the faces of famous people from the real and fictional worlds and because of their popularity , their sales exceeded the Christmas season.
One of the most famous collections is the athletes and the company is moving forward with a commitment to Alcaraz in its desire to update it, as confirmed by one of its managers, Sergi Alós, who admitted that they have been “a little out of date”.
“Starting this year we want to reverse this situation by counting all the number one sports that are most successful and followed”details.
Alós remembers that for many years they had figures of “Marc Márquez, Dani Pedrosa, Roger Federer, Pau Gasol, Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso, Tiger Woods or Novak Djokovic himselfthat Alcaraz just beat in London, and they all worked very well and most of them are still benchmarks, but the decision is to renew.”
One of the sporty caganers, Leo Messi with the shirt of the national team of Argentina, became the best-selling piece of the last winter season.
The figure of Carlos Alcaraz was designed based on the outfit the tennis player wore at Wimbledon the day he was proclaimed champion with a white shirt and pants and a racket in one hand and a ball in the other.
Sergi Alós considers that Alcaraz “is already a benchmark in this sport despite his youth” and also recalls the achievements of Rafael Nadal, although the Murcian is the one who now has “a whole career ahead of him him”.
“His talent leads us to think that he will also collect many titles and victories like the one he just achieved in a prestigious Wimbledon tournament”, said Alós, acknowledging that “a lot of people” have been asking for their caganer for a long time.
Since July, Caganer.com has eight stores, five of them in Barcelona, where the last one was inaugurated in December in front of the Palau de la Música.
Source: La Verdad
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