[News]Rafa Nadal: I never spoke ill of a government, I expressed my opinion with the utmost respect

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Rafael Nadal has granted an interview to the GQ magazine in which he wanted to clarify that he never spoke badly of the Government of Spain and assured that he simply expressed an opinion with the utmost respect after the number two in the world said that extreme measures had to be taken because Adequate measures were not taken in full confinement during the pandemic.

 

I never spoke ill of a government, I expressed an opinion that I believed at the time and the truth is that I expressed it with the utmost respect. What happens is that today absolutely nothing can be said, because unfortunately they are radicalizing us. [...] I am not interested in participating in this circus of hypocrisy and radicalization, said Nadal, protagonist in the September issue of the magazine published this Tuesday.

 

First of all, I am a person, I have no need to do politics or want to benefit some or penalize others with what I say (...) I stick to what I said and I would say it again, because I did not say anything that came out than normal. I said what I felt at the time. And why am I not going to be able to give my opinion on what I please as long as it is with respect? I am a Spanish citizen like any other, I am an athlete like others are engineers or electricians ..., he added.

The Spaniard wondered at the end of April that if people could go to a play to work together (being much closer together than on the tennis court), why couldn't the tennis players return to train as soon as possible?, He wondered after the first measures of unconfinement and the arrival of the 'new normal'.

 

That my statements have an impact does not depend on me. I am not going to enter into the radicalization that many intend to implant in this society, in which they try to make controversy with everything. There has come a time when anything that is said is political, the flag is political, if one says that what they have done is right or wrong because it is also political, one can no longer freely express what one believes because then you are speaking ill of a government, he affirmed.

 

                              

 

As a result of the Covid-19, Nadal said that everything sports goes to the background when there are so many people suffering, so many families who have lost loved ones. “The reality is that personally it is something that does not concern me, and I say it with my heart. I do not care if the sports break has been good, bad or normal, during all these months I have thought very little about tennis, I think there have been much more important things and enough misfortunes to think of something that I think does not stop of being secondary, he pointed out.

 

I am confident to remain competitive

When things are good, I hope to be fully prepared again to get back into action and remain competitive (...). In this sense, Nadal did not specify when he plans to return to the circuit after his resignation from the US Open, but he does not lose sight of the calendar. I reserve my verdict right now, because I am waiting on how things evolve. When the time comes, I will make a decision and I will do it after talking with my family and my team, together we will make the decision that we think is best for us.

 

Withdrawal? Everything has a beginning and everything has an end, and I am not one of those people who are afraid of the end, I think I respect yes, but fear no. When the end comes it will be time to accept it and continue looking for motivations in life, declared the Manacor, who asked Spain to empower and help people who have the illusion to get ahead being brave, committed and with the ability to overcome and work , ended.