{"id":8905,"date":"2026-11-04T13:45:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T13:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/real-madrid-set-to-appoint-tennis-legend-nadal-to-board\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T13:45:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T13:45:46","slug":"real-madrid-set-to-appoint-tennis-legend-nadal-to-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/real-madrid-set-to-appoint-tennis-legend-nadal-to-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid set to appoint tennis legend Nadal to board"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"62.652511961722\">\n<p>Real Madrid plan to appoint retired tennis superstar Rafael Nadal to their board of directors, the club said on Wednesday.\n<\/p>\n<p>Nadal, a 22-time Grand Slam winner, has been an honorary club member since 2011 and shares a strong relationship with Madrid president Florentino Perez.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Real Madrid and for all Madrid supporters, it is a source of immense pride that a figure of his sporting and human stature \u2014 a benchmark of Spanish and world sport \u2014 should become part of our board of directors and, in this role, contribute to the present and future of our club,\u201d said Los Blancos in a statement.\n<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid\u2019s socios \u2014 members \u2014 are expected to ratify Nadal\u2019s appointment at the club\u2019s general assembly on November 21.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank president Florentino Perez and the board for proposing that I join the board of directors of Real Madrid,\u201d wrote Nadal on social media platform X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have accepted this proposal with great excitement, I\u2019m eager to learn and to contribute everything I can.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nadal, 40, won a record 14 French Open singles titles in a glittering career.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023 Nadal said one day he would like to be Madrid president, but did not know if he was qualified for the post.\n<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of club elections this year Nadal distanced himself from reports that he would stand as a candidate.\n<\/p>\n<p>Perez triumphed in June, beating Enrique Riquelme.\n<\/p>\n<p>AFP\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#16627e7373727f62796456666378757e78713875797b\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"40342825252429342f320030352e23282e276e232f2d\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid plan to appoint retired tennis superstar Rafael Nadal to their board of directors, the club said on Wednesday. Nadal, a 22-time Grand Slam winner, has been an honorary&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}