The Spanish Rafael Nadal and the Norwegian Casper Ruud said goodbye this Sunday to Brazil jplaying with a soccer ball at the Belo Horizonte airport, from where they left for Quito, the next stop on their exhibition tour.
Christmas himself He published a video on his social networks, Recorded in an airport lounge, in which he appears together with Ruud and other people, with whom they pass a soccer ball around trying to keep it from falling to the ground.
Both tennis players played an exhibition match this Saturday in Belo Horizonte, within the framework of the Brazilian tennis farewell Bruno Soareswho at the age of 40 has abandoned a career in which he shone above all in the doubles specialty.
The stopover in Brazil was part of a tour that Nadal has undertaken with Ruud through Latin America, which began in Argentina, continued in Chile and, after the match in Belo Horizonte, will continue this Sunday in Quito and then in Colombia and Mexico.
Upon arriving in the Ecuadorian capital, the Majorcan tennis player has already announced that he will take a break from his activities to follow on television the match between Spain and Germany They play this same Sunday in the World Cup in Qatar 2022.
great soccer loverNadal could not avoid in Belo Horizonte the questions of the Brazilian journalists in relation to the World Cup.
Diplomat, said that “Brazil has the best players, an incredible history in soccer, with which, without any doubt, it is one of the top favorites to win the World Cup.”
However, he clarified that The Spanish team cannot be ruled out.
“In Spain we have a young team, in training, but with a coach (Luis Enrique) who I think has formed a great group, united and very good“, maintained Nadal, although he qualified that in a World Cup it is necessary to go “day by day”.
