Manacor town hall is already in action. rafael nadal to start respect for tennis playerwill be placed. Statue dedicated to the athlete in front of the family home It is located in the city center of his hometown, on the Plaza del Palau. The only requirement that Nadal makes to City Council is that he wants to be a figure similar to himself, so he prefers to control his face to be as realistic and truthful as possible. It is worth remembering that, as in the case of Cristiano Ronaldo at the Madeira airport, there are debates with other sports because they are not like reality.
Last Friday, March 3 Mayor Miquel Oliver and Nadal held a meeting at the academy that Rafa attended. At the Torre dels Enagistes sports complex he has to discuss the matter in depth and approve of two figures who will form a dialogue between the Nadal of the past and present for the old number one of world tennis. “Rafel valued virtual recreation very positively and gave us his consent to continue. It was a very friendly and lively meeting where we discussed many other issues,” said Oliver (Més-Esquerra), the mayor with whom Nadal has had ideological and political differences in recent years. The exchange of ideas that ended with the fact that he wanted to be able to control how his face and appearance would look so that the truth would not be distorted. “He didn’t ask us who he wanted the sculptor to be, or what material the statue should be made of. On the contrary, he prefers it not to be excessive public expenditure and that the artist be from Mallorcan if possible,” Oliver recalls, agreeing with the tennis player that the statue should be a point of attraction for both tourism and motivation. those who see.
two figures
It will be a group of two figures who will maintain a kind of intergenerational dialogue between them.. One will be the current Rafel Nadal, sitting next to an olive tree in Plaza del Palau and dressed like a tennis player with his towels, bottles, and racket, as if the match were a break between one set and the next. ; the other will represent Nadal, but eight or ten years later, at his inception and while imagining what he has become: one of the biggest male tennis stars in the world.
Right now Manacor town hall is considering the proposals of four international sculptors. One of them is Mallorcan, expedite deadlines as much as possible to know the style and materials that each will use, as well as the budget for each project that will use a surplus through administrative contracting and intervention for artistic exclusivity. It is known that the sculptures will be made of metal, almost certainly bronze, and will be slightly larger than real life, with a scale increase of up to 110% of reality.