Carlos Moyá, Nadal’s coach, joins the criticism for his farewell: “It was scruffy and shabby”

Rafa Nadal’s farewell after the premature elimination of Spain in the final phase of the Davis Cup continues to cause people to talk. After several personalities close to the Balearic Islands, such as his uncle and former coach Toni Nadal or the captain of the Spanish team David Ferrer, assessed the act with which he closed his professional career as “cold” and far from what a true legend of the sport deserved. tennis, it has been his last coach, Carlos Moyáthe one who has been sincere.

A friend of Nadal and linked to his career as a coach for the last seven years, Moyá acknowledged before the microphones of Radioestadio, a program on Onda Cero, that «the feeling that we all have is a little disheveled and shabby». “It is true that it is a Tuesday night but this is sport and it was known months in advance that if Spain lost, Rafa would retire,” he added.

«We are still assuming it. We knew it was coming this week, but it was a little early. “I didn’t see Rafa as bad as people might think,” explained the former tennis player. «Spain was a slight favorite but a victory for the Dutch could not be ruled out. This is sport, this time we have had to live the cross of the coin.

Despite everything, Moyá wanted to make it clear that “Nadal is far above all this” and predicted a great future for him also outside the tennis courts. «He has physical qualities and a special innate talent for this sport but he has a head that is out of this world. “It has a capacity to evolve and adapt that I have rarely seen.”