In a pleasant day, Vicente del Bosque has visited for the first time the Rafa Nadal Academy by Movistar. During his stay in Manacor, the former national coach has known first hand the facilities where the Vicente del Bosque Summer Campus will be held, which will take place at the Academy from August 1 to 15.
Accompanied by the Director of the Academy Toni Nadal and by the commercial and marketing manager Maribel Nadal, Del Bosque visited the soccer field, the tennis courts, the Rafa Nadal International School and all the spaces that the children attending the Summer Campus will be able to use. “I had a little reference of what the facilities were, but the truth is that it has surpassed what I had seen in the television reports. Today is a nice day to see that our country, through a great athlete, can have magnificent facilities to serve as a base so that every day we have better kids in every way, personally and also in sports”. said Del Bosque.
During the course of the day, Vicente del Bosque also visited the Rafa Nadal Museum, which houses both the trophies won by Rafa Nadal and objects donated by some of the greatest sportsmen in history. Del Bosque donated a Spanish National Team jersey to the Museum, which is now on display in the soccer area of the Museum. At the end of the visit, Rafa Nadal shared a pleasant chat with Vicente del Bosque, whom he thanked for his involvement in the organization of his Summer Campus at the Academy.
To close his visit, Del Bosque shared his thoughts on the importance of training young people at this time of the year: “I am always concerned that we do things right, that we are a reference for the children, that we don’t do anything foolish and that we are very serious about guaranteeing that this is going to work well. We also have the great concern that the kids learn and have fun, but also that they have the maximum security, that nothing happens and that everything is under control and that they remember their time at our Academy with the greatest possible pleasure. In the summer time it is logical that we give them an alternative, it does not mean that soccer is the only way to train the kids, but it is a way to get closer to what is best for them. As parents, we see it permanently and we are aware that taking a child to a facility to play sports is always positive. Instead of being at home all day with video games, they are with their peers, they socialize, those who are a little more detached are making friends and I think it is a stage in their lives that they will always remember..
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News extracted from rafanadalacademy.com