On February 14, La Sexta broadcast a new installment of Ana Pastor’s program El Objective, where the presenter was able to chat with total transparency about many current affairs with one of the most important athletes in the history of Spanish tennis: Rafa Nadal. The Mallorcan opened up about many aspects of his life, but especially about his signing as an ambassador for the Saudi Tennis Federation (STF).
”I don’t think that Arabia needs me to wash any image (…) There are things that today have to be improved, without a doubt (…) It is a country that is very behind in many things’ ‘, declared the athlete.
In addition, the tennis player also wanted to give his point of view on equality between men and women in the world of sports. A topic that generated a great confrontation between the two in the middle of the interview. ”If you tell me that being a feminist means believing that a man and a woman have the same opportunities, I am a feminist,” Nadal confessed, who in turn qualified his words with which the term ”feminism was taken to extremes.” ”Equality does not lie in giving away, it lies in the fact that if Serena Williams generates more than me, I want her to earn more than me,” he assured.
Now, just two months after the media interview, the La Sexta presenter wanted to talk about how the tennis player had no qualms about talking about certain topics that generate a great debate throughout society.
”Nadal doesn’t have to talk about certain topics. I appreciate it because he is a public figure who has to explain some things, but most of them are put in profile or are not exposed in programs like El Objective,” Ana Pastor began by saying at the communication festival on journalism, advertising and cinema. from the Carlos III University of Madrid.
And the journalist also said that Nadal had never refused to talk about certain topics during his interviews. ”The first time I interviewed him on TVE, El País had just published information about him paying taxes in the Basque Country to have a tax advantage. Before the interview, his team told me that they wanted to meet me. “He told me that he wanted me to ask him about this issue and to do it as I always do with all politicians, to be as tough as I wanted,” the journalist said.
