The Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal has been proclaimed "World Champion of Champions' by` L `Equipe, which in its Thursday edition stands as number two Spanish footballer Andres Iniesta and the third drawer to Dutchman Wesley Sneijder .
The Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal has been proclaimed "World Champion of Champions' by` L `Equipe, which in its Thursday edition stands as number two player Andres Iniesta and Spanish in third place drawer to Dutchman Wesley Sneijder.
"Rafael Nadal has reigned in the galaxy of tennis," says `L` Equipe 'on a cover illustrated by a photo of Nadal with the trophy, and which also states that, according to the votes of the writing and through the 777 points received, "beats with more than 200 points ahead of his compatriot Andres Iniesta," and third, appears Sneijder.
The paper stresses that it is "a colossus as human" in Spain generates unanimously by its naturalness, to the extent that it has achieved that photographers did not harass, unlike what happens to other celebrities.
Because also "inspires respect" among other things because unlike other athletes do not have any offshore accounts and pay their taxes, "like any citizen to build infrastructure for health care, pensions."
Remember that the Spanish champions had started the year with a knee injury, who had to leave against Andy Murray in the quarterfinals of the Open de Australia, and returned to competition in early March.
From there, "she says" binds two semifinals at Indian Wells and Miami, but won again in mid-April on clay in Monte Carlo. Recuperada trust, flies tournaments Rome, Madrid and regains his title Roland Garros. While you awaken pain in his right knee, won Wimbledon but resigned to the quarterfinals of the Davis Cup final against France. "
"Take in South Africa to attend the consecration of the Spanish football team. Back in the tracks in early August in Canada, was repositioned in the game and win in September against Djokovic last Grand Slam tournament that was missing, U.S. Open, "he adds.
The publication recognizes that the end of the season has been "more complicated "because despite being tired and reached the final of the Masters of London" but had to lean against Federer. "
Other candidates
The French sports daily justifies Iniesta second place explaining that after being injured "in the crucial moments of the 2009-2010 season" with his Barcelona team, "took a stunning Spanish rematch with the shirt to mark both World Cup victory against Holland. "
Of Sneijder, emphasizes its "success" at Inter Milan, who won the Champions League, the championship and Cup of Italy, before failing in the World Cup final, against Spain specifically.
In fourth place in the classification of the annual competition organized by `L 'Equipe' figure this time the Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao (231 points), followed by American basketball player Kevin Durant (195), the French sprinter Christophe Lemaître (176 ) and the Rally drivers couple Sébastien Loeb and Daniel Elena (140).