Rafa Nadal tipped for major career change with role in completely different sport hours after retiring from tennis

RAFAEL NADAL has been tipped for a stunning vocation alteration into a caller athletics conscionable days aft retiring from tennis.

Nadal, 38, picked up his racquet for the last clip successful nonrecreational tennis connected Tuesday.

The legendary Spaniard was beaten successful consecutive sets by Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp arsenic his federation crashed retired of the Davis Cup.

Carlos Alcaraz won his lucifer to support Spain successful contention earlier the Netherlands emerged victorious by winning the decisive doubles contest.

Nadal had announced successful aboriginal October however helium would discontinue aft the Davis Cup.

The 22-time Grand Slam champion has remained coy connected his next vocation move.

However, his uncle Toni believes determination is 1 presumption successful peculiar helium would beryllium "delighted" with.

The King of Clay is good known to beryllium a immense instrumentality of Real Madrid football club.

Consequently, the Mallorcan tennis manager has tipped Nadal to marque a stunning power to onshore an enforcement relation wrong the club's hierarchy.

Speaking to El Larguero, Toni said: "I ideate that if helium is offered the presumption of manager of Madrid, helium would beryllium delighted.

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"I haven’t said president. I deliberation it’s due to the fact that helium is specified a large instrumentality of Real Madrid.

"I person experienced it with him successful New York and Australia, successful precise important tournaments, getting up and making america get up successful the aboriginal hours of the greeting to spell and ticker the Madrid match."

Despite this, Toni admits it is simply speculation astatine this point.

He added: "He truly likes sport, particularly football, truthful I deliberation that of people helium would similar to beryllium involved, but I don’t know. I americium speaking without immoderate much cognition than my intuition."

Asked astir perchance succeeding Florentino Perez arsenic president of Real Madrid, Nadal was unfastened to the idea, though admitted helium whitethorn alteration his caput by the clip the presumption opens up.

He told Movistar: "I deliberation I'd similar to. But determination are a batch of things. Right present there's thing to accidental due to the fact that we person the champion imaginable president.

"What I deliberation today, I mightiness not deliberation tomorrow. There are tons of twists and turns successful life.

"You person to cognize if you're qualified to bash this benignant of thing. I'm rather realistic. I cognize my limitations.

"I don't cognize if I'd beryllium susceptible oregon not. Time volition tell. I haven't asked [Perez] astir it.

"I deliberation you [the media] get carried away. I don't deliberation I fulfil the requirements."

But Toni knows for definite astir 1 enactment Nadal volition summation his information in.

Toni said: "Now helium volition beryllium calm for a portion and past helium volition get progressive with sport, I recognize with implicit certainty that, successful 1 mode oregon another, helium volition get much progressive with his academies.

"He volition get much progressive with the Manacor academy, due to the fact that helium did it for a reason, it is his passion."

Nadal was tearful during the nationalist anthem earlier the crippled and broke down crying arsenic helium near the court for the last time.

He was fixed a heroic send-off by team-mates and adoring location fans portion galore huge sports stars besides paid tribute.

A four-and-a-half-minute video was played implicit the large surface with classy tributes from chap tennis stars Serena Williams, Andy Murray, Conchita Martinez, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer.

Spanish footballers Rodri, Iker Casillas, Andres Iniesta and Raul, golfer Sergio Garcia and ex-Real Madrid antheral David Beckham besides featured.

Nadal teared up watching the montage, which besides featured galore of his illustrious vocation highlights, from the breakout teenage prima to Davis Cup glories for Spain, to his singular 2022 Australian Open victory, coming from 2 sets down to bushed Daniil Medvedev successful the final.

Then helium - and galore successful the assemblage including his doting woman Mery - were forced to hitch distant the waterworks earlier helium spoke connected the tribunal pursuing confirmation of the end.

Asked however helium wanted to beryllium remembered, the antheral from Manacor replied: "The titles and the numbers are determination truthful radical astir apt cognize that.

"But what I privation to beryllium remembered much for is arsenic a bully idiosyncratic from a tiny colony successful Mallorca.

"I was conscionable a kid who followed their dreams, worked arsenic hard arsenic imaginable to beryllium wherever I americium contiguous and, being honest, I person been precise fortunate with the beingness I've had the accidental to live.

"I achieved much than what I ever dreamed."

Nadal added to the assemblage who chanted "Rafa, Rafa" passim the tie: "It has been 20 years of a nonrecreational vocation successful which you person carried maine done the bully times, and successful the bad, you pushed maine to support playing.

"The information is that you ne'er privation to get to this point. I'm not bushed of playing tennis but my assemblage doesn't privation to play anymore and you person to judge that.

"I consciousness ace privileged, I've been capable to marque my hobby my assemblage for a agelong time. Of course, it has been an affectional time and I felt nerves earlier the match.

"I tried my best, I tried to bask and play with the close energy and the close attitude."

Nadal mouthed "gracias" to the assemblage during a minute-long lasting ovation.