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Rafa. What a name, what a tale. After 25 years on this planet, after 10 years as a pro, with 10 Grand Slam titles, with one Olympic Gold Medal, Rafael Nadal, by tomorrow, will be the next athlete to have an Autobiography on the market, telling his story way before his career comes to an end.
What the F*&^?! With Nadal, despite winning the Roland Garros this year (sixth time), kind of struggling this season, especially when it comes to facing Novak Djokovic (losing to him five times in finals), I don’t think that an Autobiography is what we want from him. I’m sure his fans, even his most devoted ones, would prefer to see him regain some dominant streak and take back the world number one spot.
Sport autobiographies shouldn’t come what a player is in the middle of his career. They should come after he retires, or during the twilight of it at least. Players who use ghost writers or whatever to sit down with them and write their Autobiographies always come out boring. Yeah, there’s supposed to be some big part about how Nadal almost quit Tennis six years ago and turned to Golf.
Yeah, the part about his thoughts and views on the whole rivalry with Roger Federer is interesting. But I would’ve waited. Nadal, hopefully, has plenty of tennis and titles left in him. Lets say, 3 more dominant years? That deserves a mention in his book, right? What, if he passes Federer on the All Time Grand Slam win list he won’t need that on his resume or Autobiography? I highly doubt the world needs to Rafael Nadal books. Even one, especially at this point of his career, is too much.
In England, footballers are ready to write their Autobiographies before they win a title or hardly do anything. It’s a joke. It’s a messy and boring read nearly 100% of the time. Nadal doesn’t need the cash, I’m pretty sure. He’s made over 42 million dollars from tennis alone in his career. Rafa won’t change the life of anybody. Lets hope his performance at the US Open is better than his decision making regarding a unwarranted autobiography at the age of 25.
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Rafa wrote this for his fans – and we appreciate it – and love him all the more for it! With over 8 million facebook fans alone, across the world I’d say there is interest…and by the way, do your research – Rafa won’t change the life of anybody? Have you ever heard of the work his foundation does for children? And he inspires me to work hard and never give up in my own life, with the many challenges we all face…he’s a hero to many and a distraction to so many of life’s day to day struggles – sport and Rafa can change the world even if it/he just brightens your day!
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I agree that Rafa should at present try to prolong his career to even more higher planes to challenge Djokovic and regain no 1 and win many more slams.We can wait for autobiography.We want him to be the dominant Rafa the tennis player.As for changing lives,he definitely is an inspiration for many around the world.He is helping run a school in India for poor.
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@KM: to be fair, I think he was saying that “Rafa”, the book, won’t change anybody’s life…
Well, if he wants to write an autobiography at this point, who really cares? If you don’t like it, don’t buy it then.
I, for one, already purchased my copy on iBooks, and am looking forward to it.