Over 50% of users choose the player MARCA.com Nadal as the best Spanish athlete of the decade ¯ `Rivals' as Gasol and Alonso left with only 13% and 12% of the vote respectively · Casillas and Xavi are following
Rafa Nadal is for an overwhelming majority of users MARCA.com the Spanish athlete of the decade draws to a close. Over 50% of the votes collected by this site point to the player ahead of Spaniard Pau Gasol, Fernando Alonso, among others.
In MARCA.com survey, which involved more than 50,000 Internet users, Nadal almost 20,000 votes ahead of his nearest rival, Pau Gasol. The Lakers player adds about 7,000 votes while Fernando Alonso, third, accumulated nearly 6,000.
The two players in the Spanish football team proposed as athletes of the decade, Iker Casillas and Xavi Hernandez, rank fourth and fifth respectively, while virtually equally between them. Just a 0.1% separate the two players.
The survey of the best foreign athlete of the decade led the main rival Rafael Nadal over the years: Roger Federer. The Swiss tennis player, with almost 30% of the vote, ahead of Valentino Rossi, Zinedine Zidane and Leo Messi, who around 15% each. Surprisingly or Michael Phelps or Usain Bolt, both with 6% of votes, the top appear.