has been for many years the
rafael coach swims and reunited two
important conditions to be a good
coach
the first has been that it has been his uncle
It is always harder to throw a
family that an outsider and what
second is that like the other eyes
Catalan media
I have been the cheapest coach in the
circuit and that also counts
for this reason
for this reason my mind kept me
so long in office no other
I assure you, being in Monte Carlo
we had to play the final against the
swiss not very good and had long been
God played because we had to play
against him and rafael I wonder how do you see
today’s match
I told him how I see it because I see it
complicated
federer has the drive better than yours
the reverse is also better than yours
the volley is much better than yours and
when I went to tell him and the serve there is no
color
He said to me for going to take what
measures to go out on track
I told him if you want he can fool you
but in a little while it’s not going to
cheat federal and you better know
something you have to face
from here we will look for solutions
this has been my way of understanding a
part of my way of understanding the
training accept the reality a
very complicated thing today
nowadays it seems that we have to
always give messages to ours from
positive messages we have to say with
we have to constantly tell them that
they are almost the best they are
very good
I think this is not a good start
I prefer more of the other principle the
know less good enough
I believe that when one does not know is
good enough and knows the
reality is the first step is the point
starting to achieve the purposes
that’s what he understood, I’ve always
always shied away from an overvaluation
of the guys that I delivered over
all of Rafael because obviously my
nephew and could do it
I remember to add when after
tell him that he says good if you’re
able to play each point as if it were
the last
if you are able to play this game as
if his life depended on it
if you put in definite more illusion than
he is willing to run more than the self
I think you’ll have many options
victory and I have always believed in
victory options although sometimes the
truth is that it has gone very well
that girl that I told her I did not know
He became the fourth player
Spain in its category
which was not bad this search of the
boom of objectivity and avoiding the
cheating like hell has prevented me
never have maximum confidence that
we would achieve our purposes
always I always had a maximum
confidence that rafael would achieve its
purposes with work evidently and
I remember many years ago being in
house of Carlos Moya Carlos Goya me
asked if I was about 15 years old
I ask you would you sign in a future that
rafael out an albert coast
albert costa just won roland
Garros in the seventh world player
I told him no, he did not sign it
no no I think rafael will be better
I want to believe that rethink the best
Carlos Moyá was surprised by
that statement because rafael soler a
a promise and will aspire to
the also champion of roland garros
new so easy and then I
I ask you would you sign that in the future
Rafael was a Carlos Moya I told him
man Carlos Moyá also won a
roland garros was number one in the world
five years among the eight best
I told him yes it is a Carlos Moyá what
signed
we ate dinner we invited
We said goodbye but just closing the
door when we left
rafaelillo I said let’s not signed it nor
in jest at home obviously not
could go wrong
there is no other way but to train well
character and has been a coach that I
worry in almost more than the formation of
character of rafael to form a character
strong that in itself to form him well
so technically we have done have
these blows so strange above
the one of the uefa or that it takes good that removes
as taken out as I think it will take
best
but for many years I did not get that
I learned though the truth was never
my fault that I did not learn to take out
It was always his fault because as he
I said many years ago to a father who
I gave his son that seeing the
disaster that his son was doing told me this
is what you teach my son I
I said no no this is what they learn what
who taught him is very different
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I never liked to assume the
responsibility for that from very
small and c take responsibility
raphael I am reputed to be a
demanding coach has been largely
measure has been a hard coach no longer
believes in hardness as an end but believes
in hardness like half a century the
demanding coach because I felt you a
great estimate or great esteem for me
nephew
I would never have been demanding with
someone who could not stand the
hardness or that could not support such
requirement but I will never be demanding
with someone for whom I feel great
appreciation for someone who I think
I feel great esteem as I wanted the
my nephew’s main asset
I was very demanding, I think that this is
the one main condition to be
demanding
well I have this requirement I always tried
that will divide into a self-imposed
one can not be stretching
constantly to his to his player in my
case or to anyone that you on trains
in any activity
that’s why I always tried that Rafael
felt the same responsibility
I think he assumed many years ago
accompany a circuit to a tournament together
with another player I accompany you and I remember
that they put the party to it
time that another player who also
accompanied
I saw my nephew play there what
far and sound was a complete
disaster was losing 5-0 with a very boy
good at this time a friend came
my former player and he said hey
I think your nephew is playing with a
broken racket those who have played some
time to tennis with the broken frame is
practically impossible to play
holdings
that was less inside the track it
they give all out I went to the track of
rafael and I said hear the racket is
broken
I think the recipe is broken and the guy and
easy fuck if defeat in return
well the changed the panorama changed but
in the end he lost 6-0 7-5 and me when
finished the game I went to him he says
you can tell me that a boy this one
I was 15 years old that you can tell me that
a boy after so many years of playing
not knowing when it does not require is broken and
his answer was very clear said look
I’m so used to always have
it’s my fault that I would not have anything
imagined that it was the racket that
I was losing
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all life has been the same speech
I rarely believe that a
sense of self-criticism is very difficult
advance improve if you do not have a good
sense of self-criticism and has tried
that he always had her
I have tried to never mediate their
justifications neither to defeats nor anything of
what was too easy to justify
constantly justify me
they asked me that the academy
put some phrases to motivate
boys
I do not know if the drips of being discouraged
but I remember one of the phases that I put
it was never an excuse made us win a
party is reality for years
we were in the usopen and where the
edition the balls did not take effect
rafael we were playing and it was a
disaster
every day when we were going to train these
balls I did not see well do not take effect
curious I said good morning
next again the same thing bothers me
a lot
the excuses won his first game on
second the third but already tired of
listen I told him hey what you have to
to do is lose lose and in mallorca
the host balls did indeed make me
case lost he lost what he did not go to
Majorca he went to Beijing
I went to mallorca and afterwards we met
again in naples
curiously in Beijing won the tournament
next he won to everyone he
won the world number three to the number
5 played a great tournament colon and by the
TV
I went out with the balls that I played and
I played with the same ones from the Portuguese pepe
I said when I met him I told him
certainly in Beijing with the holdouts and
he embarrassed me he said with the
bags and in Beijing take effect in new
york that today in Beijing take effects
the same always the same now he was in
australia and when he played his room
match and did not play too well and I
I said after the game chooses today we
he played too well the first thing that
He said was it was very hot headquarters
It was only hot on a half track because
in the other the other one that played very well
as I said I always tried to strengthen
the character of rafael and I did it
trying to build their capacity to
hold on because this I think is what
determinant in life the ability to
endurance years ago I was in a
school and listen
for the teacher who told us in this
life you have to learn to conjugate the
verb to hold on
the lokon played otherwise good he
He told me I can stand you hold on
According to us we said
professor rafael or learn to conjugate myself
I can stand it, I can stand you, it was bad
endure for years
I did it train with balls in
bad conditions with tracks in bad
terms
I said good today we are going to deliver
an hour and a half and then lengthened the
training indefinitely because to
I was interested in who learned
hold on intense buckle learn to
strengthen above all its character
I believe that this is the determining factor
what has been decisive in life
I believe that character is formed with
difficulty that I think this is the great
today’s error
nowadays it turns out that the guys
having many more things having all
a technology behind
it turns out that having nutritionists
having biomechanical studies
audiovisuals to analyze the blows
statistics that tell you what you have
what to do
it turns out that people cost much more
improve I give a very clear example
when we arrived at the circuit
professional
the first ones of the professional circuit
Hewitt was 21 years old
roddick 20 years this Swiss and was 21
efe coria 21
nalbandian 21 ferrero 23 safin 24 that
there was moi there and sores made
with adults nowadays it turns out that
first of the circuit are federer 36
Rafael is going to meet 32 murray and djokovic
31 jumps 33 of the colt is going to meet
thirty philippe 30 berdych 33 that has
past because these people today will
it costs a lot more to oust those of
before then I think that simply
because they have not understood that that is
essential the essential
obviously I ‘m not going against the
technology the world advances and the
technology is going to help us but I think
that there are things that in which he about
everything in the training stages does not
help make life so easy for
young boys
I think it does not help at all I think that
it’s much better sometimes to limit yourself to
limit us a bit the progress and return
to what is essential for us
always was essential cycle
perseverance was respect for the rival
it was the effort was the sacrifice was the
discipline were never the technologies
the essential
I believe that this is what should
understanding with young people is what I
I understand what has been fundamental in
Rafael to be clear that everything that
It was his responsibility to know
be willing to fight until the end
for him he had many physical problems of
injuries
I do not like the complaint when I
he said he had many problems the way
look at this is what there is with this we have
to fight and that I understand what is
fundamental not only for Rafael but
for any of those who aspire to
achieve high goals
I tested years later than me that
I thought that by mcenroe and lendl
they were exceptional people like and I believed
that his coaches
he was also very good coaches already
that they had endowed had
doped with a special gift as it has
proven how a guy manacor a
Normal boy, I do not know if he has
reached the level of mcenroe or of
lendl
but yes that with effort with sacrifice
yes that has managed to reach many of
the goals that as a young person was proposed by
I understand that if he has got it
obviously many people many of
we can get it
I do not know if everyone can
get yourself a number one
today number 2 as of Monday
I do not know if you can get this but yes
I’m sure all or almost all
we can all get ahead and
improve thank you
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