Majorcan tennis player Rafael Nadal He assured this Wednesday that his goal is to “try to start the gravel season”, but he did not want to make predictions on this matter. “The first objective is to try to compete and I go day by day,” he stressed.
“I will do my best to try to start the gravel season which is my goal, I am working for that and making an effort with that goal, but from now on what possible happens I no longer dare to say anything because lately it has been difficult. so I can make predictions, unfortunately,” he said before the 2nd Rafal Nadal Foundation Awards ceremony in Palma.
“I don’t stop training at any time. I try all the time. I feel good, I just haven’t followed the schedule I want so far. I hope things change, but as much as possible Imagine I cannot. say because I don’t know,” he said.
Regarding whether he is optimistic about his return to competition in the immediate future, he commented: “It doesn’t matter if I’m optimistic or not; I’m realistic. It’s been a year and a half or two since it was impossible . for me to compete, that’s why the first “My goal is to try to compete and I go every day.”
“If I have to be optimistic or negative, maybe I’m not trying anymore. It’s been a long time, I have a very long age and a long career behind me. In the end I try not to be one thing or another. , go every day, do the work I need to do to give myself opportunities and we’ll see how long we can try,” he highlighted.
Regarding his resignation from playing the recent Indian Wells tournament, he explained: “The truth is that I don’t feel like starting to play a tournament at this level, with the little background I have behind training at the level I need .”
“I don’t want to start a tournament coming from where I come from, without any guarantee to advance at least to the levels that I think I have to ask myself to try to start a tournament,” he says.
This Wednesday, the Rafal Nadal Foundation awarded former Brazilian footballer Raí Souza for the sport-based educational project of his Gol de Letra Foundation, in an event held at the Es Baluard Museum in Palma, attended by the tennis player which is Rafael Nadal and the president of Telefónica, José María Álvarez-Pallete.
Nadal recalled that it has been 13 years since the foundation that bears his name was launched and emphasized that the awards now in their second edition allow their work to be extended to other entities. “We can recognize other foundations and contribute our part and help others with recognition and financial contributions.”
The Gol de Letra Foundation, created in 1998, has trained more than 30,000 children using sport as a tool for social change. In addition to the special ‘Fit For Life’ recognition for Raí Souza, five entities were awarded in different categories.
Each of the five award-winning entities will receive 15,000 euros in support of the winning project. The development cooperation award went to CIM Burkina, for the ‘Drinking water and decent sanitation in schools’ project; The sports award went to Fundació La Vinya, for ‘Mou-te amb mi’, from the intergenerational project ‘Embellir-se envellint’. The RANA Foundation received an education award for the project ‘Building a childhood and youth free of sexual abuse’. The social innovation award went to the Mirdas Foundation, for ‘bbMiradas’, a program for the detection and intervention of suspected autism in babies under 36 months. In the health and wellness category, the award went to the Cudeca Foundation, and ‘The CUDECA Pediatric Day Unit project’.
Source: La Verdad
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