The year of the 14ª: The season we were "Nadaling" dangerously

I start writing after finishing watching Rafa Nadal's great game. That guy who never gives up. The greatest competitive animal sport has ever seen. The person who overcomes all pain.

With everything against him, when anyone would have thrown the match, and facing another of the best tennis players in history... Rafa believed again. And won. And he made history again. https://twitter.com/DAZN_ES/status/1531780959065997312

This year we have been "Nadaling" as a club. It is not in vain that Nadal is a madridista and Real Madrid is very Nadal. No disrespect to Rafa, who in the end plays alone, not with 10 teammates. And in silence, at the decisive points, not with 80 thousand throats pushing him. Rafa fights alone and that makes him a giant. But it has been a very Nadal seasone in Madrid. With only a few drawbacks, like that strange Cup match against Athletic, or the defeat at home against Barça. Matches that caused many to bury us, as many people already saw Nadal out tonight in the fourth set.

They never learn, neither with Rafa nor with us

Already in the last few hours some people are starting to give us some credit. They watch Real Madrid plays this year and recognizes "Hey, sometimes they play it well."

Sometimes, sometimes https://twitter.com/realmadrid/status/1531636629537902593

I remember in adolescence -when this boy, Rafa, was starting- that a colleague, an anti-Madrid boy of course and who said he knew a lot about tennis, told me that Rafa would not be a great player. "He is a mere ball returner", he insisted.

Like Real Madrid, a mere counterattacker. < p style="text-align: justify;">And how happy they have made us. Rafa and the Real, the Real and Rafa.