Nadal will open in Mallorca an international school fo tennis in 2016. via ultimahora.es Translated by Ericka Domenzáin. Rafa Nadal will open in summer 2016 in Manacor an international tennis school will host each school year to 140 boys and girls in order to train them from a sporting and human terms. The most important thing is to prepare them as people, said Nadal himself, who has placed on Monday in Manacor the first stoneof the Rafa Nadal Academy, which will have a surface area of 24,014 square meters and have 18 tennis courts, a school and a home for young athletes from around the world. The ceremony of the foundation stone was attended, among others, the president of Balears, Jose Ramon Bauza, President of the Consell de Mallorca, Maria Salom, and Franciso de Bergia, director of Public Affairs Chairmans Office, a company that works in this project. In this academy, which will employ approximately 140 people, will also locate the Rafa Nadal Foundation, which is currently in Barcelona, and a museum of national and international sport with the donations made by athletes. In a press conference in which he was accompanied by all his family, the Mallorcan tennis player has stated that his father has made this project a reality, and that his uncle and coach Toni Nadal, has been a special piece . The first phase of this large sports complex will last about 18 months and it is expected that in the summer of 2016 will begin the activity with a tennis summer camp. The land on which the project will be built has an area of 50,571 square meters and, among other facilities, there will be 3 swimming pools, paddle tennis court, a football field 7 and a sports court. There will also be a medical center, a shopping area and a living area, plus 35 apartments for professional sports teams who will come to train on the island, such as cyclists or football players. Nadal stressed that the purpose of the tennis school is to make the best of youth sports level, but especially prepare for the future human and academic level because, he acknowledged, to become a professional sport it is a goal that few aspirants reach. The center also wants to play the role of being a meeting point of all the inhabitants of the region of Manacor and Balearic citizens, and to practice sport and maintain a healthy lifestyle. With this tennis academy, Nadal wanted to thank somehow what his land has given him. Nadal, who will work in this center once he puts an end to his successful career, said that sport is his passion as professional and amateur, and has given him vital level happiness in many moments. The player thanked the public institutions of the Balearic Islands and Movistar for their support to put this initiative, which aims to be a world reference in training young players. For his part, the President of Baleares said that this new challenge that begins is as important as any of the tournaments Nadal has played, so he wished him the best of luck. The president of the Consell de Mallorca recalled that on December 1 the Mallorcan athlete will receive the distinction of Son of the island. Salom has referred to the generosity and illusion Nadal for an initiative that will train thousands of young people and promote sport, and Manacor will become global known. Movistar, Bergía has also praised the project and stressed that education is the foundation of everything, and emphasized that behind every winning points of Nadal, and those who have not been winners his family and his team have always been there.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 04:40:23 +0000
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