A poster of Michael Jordan, of those that come out with magazines, doing a free launch. Another Shaquille O’Neal poster from the Orlando Magic days. An image from the times when he was just a tennis player. A desk with some trophies and medals from the tournaments won. A certificate of participation in a competition, an explorer’s hat. Another poster of actress Pamela Anderson when she played the role of CJ Parker in Baywatch. A white Nike shirt, that bleached blonde hair being well understood the original version. In short, a teenager like any other.
Any prodigy athlete, the kind who goes through all the stages between being able to be everything when he is nothing and ending up with nothing left to praise because he won it all, has some connection to what he was in his youth. Kylian Mbappé can play today alongside Lionel Messi and Neymar, but he does not forget the posters of Cristiano Ronaldo that he had on the wall of his room when he was 14 years old. In fact, he did not have so many changes between what he was and what he is now, except for everything that he has already won at a sporting and economic level. And like PSG’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, there are many more superheroes who made their way into the sport, but when they looked back they saw traits that later helped write the race.
In the case of Roger Federer, apart from the part of the sponsorship that still remains, everything that was written about him he became the antithesis of what needed to be written about him. The boy who had his eccentricities in the mix became an example as “sir” and family man. The player who from time to time (and there were even many) broke rackets in the game rose to the symbol of chivalry. The would-be catcher who in those tournaments indoors in Switzerland he dreamed of leading the classificationrose to a level where being number 1 was the smallest feat in terms of the ability to change the history of the sport.
Roger’s characteristics and what he did on and off the court raised doubts. Federer’s styles and what he did on and off the court They have become a certainty. So sure that, in a 2011 study, it was the second most trusted in the world second only to the former president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela.
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Source: Observadora
