Roger Federer is back talking, having shot an advertising spot together with his former rival and great friend Rafa Nadal
Even though he hung up his racket more than two years ago, no one has forgotten him. The King of tennis in the world championship is always and still him, Roger Federer. And it is not only the twenty Grand Slam tournaments that he has won during his extraordinary career that have guaranteed him this nickname.
Federer has always embodied the prototype of the model athlete, the unblemished champion, the champion par excellence on and off the pitch. Possessing a unique and inimitable style, as even his fiercest rivals have always recognized. The most important of them later also became a great friend of him.
We are talking, of course, about Rafa Nadal, against whom King Roger gave rise to duels that have now entered the history of tennis and world sport. After some time the two champions met again, one next to the other, to shoot a new and long-awaited advertising sport promoted by Louis Vuittonone of the most prestigious brands in the world.
The filming took place in the Dolomites in a typically winter climate and between one break and another in the filming the two created authentic skits, one funnier than the other. And for the occasion they remembered the old days, especially the years in which they were little more than very young talents hunting for glory.
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Nadal recalled their first meeting: “I was seventeen or something. I think we were both at the Munich tournament and you were super nice to me“. Federer added that he immediately realized Nadal’s strength, but he hadn’t imagined what would happen next.
The former Basel champion then confessed what today, with his career now over, is perhaps his most important wish, the one he cares about most. “I would like to be remembered not only for the tennis player I was, but also for the personfor what I have done and represented for this magnificent sport“.
“Be a role model for children – concluded King Roger – it would make me happy“. The reaction of the fans on social media was immediate, where emotion prevailed over anything else.
