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Writer, podcaster and entrepreneur Shane Breslin offers a personal exploration of the transformation of our lives through technology, the experience of spectator sport from our sofas, armchairs and beanbags, and what men might realistically expect of themselves in the next new normal. Rafa Nadal Makes Me Want to Be a Better Man is set against the backdrop of a classic Wimbledon men’s tennis semi-final between Nadal and Novak Djokovic in 2018, which got under way after 8pm on a Friday night, continued past the 11pm curfew and returned to impose a delay on the women’s final the following afternoon.This encounter, involving two members of probably the greatest three-way rivalry ever witnessed in sport, brought tennis back into the spotlight at the end of a long dry spring and summer in which the World Cup in Russia had once again positioned football as the world’s game. The book compares the evolution of football as a billion-dollar global industry with the private, individual, iconic but often bizarre quest for excellence of Rafa Nadal, who paradoxically could be heralded as one of the greatest sportsmen of all time and still end up as only the third best tennis player of his generation.A lyrical exposition of how much men can expect of themselves in the new industrial revolution of Internet times, layered on top of a treatise on professional sport and the amateur armchair experience pro sport represents for most of humanity, Rafa Nadal Makes Me Want to Be a Better Man is certain to provoke a response in all who read it.Whether you’re a man or you’re close to one, or you occasionally find spiritual glory in tennis or football, or you’re just trying to find a way to best navigate the tech-frenzied world in which all of us find ourselves, Rafa Nadal Makes Me Want to Be a Better Man should offer insights on the universal male experience through the prism of one man’s experience of watching another at work.
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