Giuanluigi Buffonlegendary Italian goalkeeper, commented this Tuesday that he thinks the Spaniard Rafael Nadal “he can play great games” still, “although he doesn’t need to win anything else.”
The legendary export goalkeeper Juventus and of the Italian team, current head of delegation of the ‘Azzurra‘, spoke of a Nadal who is facing his last year as a professional.
“I think that Nadal, seeing himself every day, knows that he can still achieve great performances. Maybe his mentality is: ‘if I can have continuity for 3-4 months and I face a Slam in that time so I can win it'”he said in an interview with the Italian newspaper ‘La Repubblica’.
““You don’t need to win anything else.”he pointed out.
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“I didn’t need to win anything else either. I could have stopped five years earlier, it would have been the same. But regardless of what others say, who are not with you all day, you know that if they ask you to perform at your best, you can do it. Another thing is continuity,” he explained.
‘Gigi’ already knows what it’s like to leave elite sport since she hung up her gloves almost a year ago, in August 2023.
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“I’m doing well, it was how I imagined it. The gaps that you inevitably find when you go from having a scheduled life for thirty years you have to try to fill in the most beneficial way possible. And I think I’m doing it very well,” he said.
