Teenage Bubble Butt!

I'm so going to hell for that title.

I found an old article of Rafa today at FourFourTwo, a football site. He talked a little about playing football, and choosing between that and tennis.

If things had turned out differently, Nadal could have followed in the footsteps of his uncle Miguel Angel Nadal, the centre-back nicknamed ‘The Beast of Barcelona’, who made more than 200 appearances for the Catalan giants and played 62 times for Spain.

“It was very close, I can tell you,” says Nadal. “I was playing both all the time. My parents worried that my studies would suffer if I played too much sport so they told me I had to choose football or tennis. I was pretty good at football. I was a striker. But I always felt that tennis was more my thing.”

Article can be found here.

UPDATED: Rafisca Sighting!

Rafa shoots Kia commercial with Xisca in tow.

The pics are at Bauer Griffin. Go!

UPDATE: found the vid of the commercial via Nadal News. Sadly no Xisca there, but Rafa as always is cute as hell. He totally hates the hair primping.

Set Your Alarm For Wednesday

Okay, you guys probably have noticed that I try to avoid serious news as best as I can. Sadly, Rafa cannot just fill his days doing ridiculous poses and pretending that he's totally not doing it to make us Rafanatics happy. So I have to post the Rotterdam draws, for you serious tennis types. And also because it's a seriously slow day. 

Rafa will play his first singles match in Rotterdam on Wednesday night, against Simone Bolelli.

I tried looking for the time of the match but I went to the official site and despite my country's history of being colonized by the Dutch for 3 and a half century, I cannot understand a thing. I went on a clicking rampage but tough. No love for me from the Rotterdam site. You can check out the whole draw here. Rafa's half is quite brutal, but he's not number 1 for nothing.

Anyhoo. Rafa actually played today on doubles, and lost, against the partnering of Clement and Llodra. Rafa's partner was Ignacio Coll-Riudavets. 

Other seeds in the draw:

Andy Murray/The Ginge Hotness (GBR x2) 

Nikolay Davydenko/I'm Really 28 But I Look 40 (RUS x3)

Gilles Simon/Baby Pom (FRA x4)

Gael Monfils/He Scares Me (FRA x5)

David Ferrer/He Scares Me Too (ESP x6)

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga/The Hulking Baller (FRA x7)

Robin Soderling/Uh... No Snark For Robin (SWE x8 )

What do you think of this ensemble? I personally love the white shorts. May you sweat like a pig, Rafa, and render the shorts helpless and transparent.

It's the 1st day of the tournament, and we already have a Rafarse pic. Bless.

Just because this is a blog about him:

And because he is The Ginge Hotness:

Boy, they sure make 'em cute nowadays.

UPDATE:  Thanks to Rafanatic CC, we now know that Rafa's match is scheduled at 7.30 PM UK time on Wednesday. Fire up your broadcast.

Friday's Bum Off 1st Edition Was...

Arse #1: Feli Lopez

Arse #2: Rafarse

Now, who preferred arrset #1 last Friday? ;)

Which do you prefer now?

*image of sweat soaked Rafa from Tennis Trash

The Bum Off: #1*

So I think by now we have established that Rafa's best asset is his arse. If you don't agree, I'm not listening anyways, so don't bother. 

Anyhoo. I thought we could have a little something every week. We'll compare his arsset to another arsset. Maybe one day we'll find one that trumps his. I'm not very hopeful, but apparently hope springs eternal.

So. The Bum Off, 1st edition:

Arse #1

Arse #2

Which one's better?!?!?!?!

Btw, one of these arsset is not Rafa's. Can you guess which is which? I will reveal Friday's The Bum Off on Monday. I hope I can do this every week.

*Post is edited.

Stop The Butt Picking?

It seems that people are really bothered by Rafa's butt picking during matches, and they always want to fix it with finding the perfect underwear for him.

The Vine is the latest taking the number to stand in the line.

After watching Rafael Nadal pick at his undies before every serve during the Australian Open, it struck me that many men are probably spending the day in uncomfortable undies. If the world's number one tennis player, one of the richest men in sport, can't afford to get good undies, or advice on good undies, what hope do the rest of the world's gentlemen have?

Rafa could do worse than look to two other tennis players, Pat Rafter and Bjorn Borg for comfy dacks. Pat is all about sturdy, sensible, comfy Bonds. Bjorn has his own far-out colourful range of shorts and briefs.

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Fortunately for Rafa, Bonds did send him a load of Pat Rafter's favourites. His nervous undies picking may cease yet. 

He's said before that he would like to stop it if he could. If he was being honest, then Rafa, your number one step would be to switch from briefs to boxer/briefs.

As for me, I... don't really care. I mean, who knows, he may be doing it to draw attention to his admittedly out-of-this-world asset? Maybe he likes attention there? Maybe he does it to distract his opponents? Who really knows?

It's totally one of those things that you think is cute about a man, until you've been together with him for about 6 months. And then the novelty (about everything) wears off, and you start saying "it was cute when I first met you but now it's just annoying and rude", but who REALLY cares? If the man is Rafael Nadal, would you honestly complain about one annoying little habit, when you can have all of him?

That was a hypothetical question, btw.