These summer weeks, when many people are on vacation, are perfect for listening to the best moments that the season of ‘Herrera en COPE’ has left us. On this occasion, the protagonist was the Spanish tennis player, Rafa Nadal, who managed to win a new glass of the musketeers a few weeks ago in Paris.
Rafa Nadal has done it again. It is the fourteenth time that the Spaniards can celebrate the victory of the tennis player from Manacor on the clay of Paris. One more year and an increasingly complicated edition, after having managed to eliminate Novak Djokovic or deal with a chronic and incurable injury to his foot that threatens to leave him permanently away from the tennis courts. With all these ingredients, Carlos Herrera has been tempted to rename him, in addition to raising the question that we all ask ourselves today.
A new name for Rafa Nadal
Carlos Herrera devoted a large part of the program to analyzing Rafa Nadal’s victory at Roland Garros: “This boy, who is called Ro…, was going to say Roland Garros,” corrected Herrera, who ended up offering the Mallorcan who, precisely, bet on that change in your DNI: “Rafael Nadal, well, it’s as if it were already called Roland Garros, because he has won the fourteenth in this clay court tournament”, has proposed a Herrera who, like so many other Spaniards, continues without giving credit before the feat, At the age of 36, Rafael Nadal has returned to star.
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At this brilliant moment in the career of the most successful tennis player in the history of our tennis, there is a shadow that threatens to slam the door on what is undoubtedly one of the most successful careers in world sport. “The question is not how Rafael feels about having achieved this Grand Slam 22”, which means increasing the advantage with his most direct competitors, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, who have 20 Grand Slams. The question, as Carlos Herrera poses it, “It is what everyone does: does it continue, does it not continue, will it continue with more intensity, with less intensity?”, something that we will have to wait for after a new medical review that can mark the more immediate future than it already is a Spaniard for history.
Müller-Weiss, the rare disease that Rafa Nadal suffers
Müller-Weiss is the syndrome that Rafa Nadal suffers from in his left foot and that causes pain that never goes away. He is his most important rival, but the one he manages to beat in feats like the one he did last night, at Roland Garros, in Paris, in that match in which he lasted more than four hours against Novak Djokovic. Nadal has learned to live with that pain, which was diagnosed in 2005 when he was 19 years old and, now, he is about to turn 36. He has lived with this degenerative injury his entire career.
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Javier Muniain, a physiotherapist for elite athletes, explained what this injury consists of and how it affects Nadal in each match. “It is osteochondritis, which is a problem with the cartilage that covers the bone. The importance, in Rafa’s case, is that this bone is the one that articulates in the first column of the foot, in the part of the big toe”, He begins by explaining about the disease.
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“This is very important because, every time you push off to run or do a strong start, the push comes from the big toe and is transmitted throughout the body. Since it is an area that is very sore, the problem is that he can’t take short strides”, explains the physiotherapist about the pain that this syndrome causes the tennis player.
This comment, in which Rafa Nadal was the protagonist, is among the best moments that this season of ‘Herrera en COPE’ has left us. The new one will start in September. Meanwhile, this summer all the information and the best entertainment continues at COPE from six in the morning to one at noon.
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