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00:00We are in Qatar and we are ready for a great week of padel.
00:14The Padel World Cup is being celebrated here at the Khalifa International.
00:17At the moment, the favorites are Spain and Argentina in both categories.
00:22In the men's, Argentina has won 11 times, four others Spain,
00:25and in the women's, Spain has won 8 times, the last 5 consecutive
00:29and the others have been for Argentina.
00:31But, well, a lot of things could happen, there could be some surprises,
00:35we don't know, but first I want to show you the facilities.
00:39This center has 8 padel tracks.
00:41At the moment we can see that the girls are playing.
00:44It's Brazil against Chile at this very moment.
00:48But I'm going to take you to the central track.
00:51And now we are entering the central track,
00:54which is where the great final of the Padel World Cup will take place.
00:58Tell me if this place is not spectacular.
01:06Favorite player of the tournament?
01:07Arturo Coelho.
01:09For me, Sanyo Gutiérrez, because he is a player who has a lot of class
01:13and although he is already a veteran, he has always shown that in these tournaments he also yields a lot.
01:17For me, Fede Chingotto, because I think he is the player of the people,
01:19he fights like a giant and he always has a spectacular charisma.
01:22Probably, Ole Gunnar.
01:25Well, Jocky Nieto, he is a player who always fights,
01:27who has a lot of grip, a lot of fight and I really like the way he plays.
01:30My favorite player, although I am Chilean, is Argentine, and it is Federico Chingotto.
01:35Paquito Navarro, I love him.
01:37Paquito's fan, to the max.
01:40Look, guys, I really like to play Lebron.
01:46Well, we are here ready with Mayanguas and Ale Galán,
01:50ready for a precision challenge.
01:53Well, I think there are two favorite teams,
01:55we are Argentina and Spain, as it is historically,
01:58and I think this time we have a more complete team,
02:01if the third game has to be decided,
02:03but they have enough weapons to fight us to the final
02:07and I think, for now, I give it a 50-50.
02:09Mike is going to pass the ball to Ale,
02:12and Alex, you have to hit it right in the middle of those two balls there.
02:18Well, I'll try.
02:20Ale.
02:22Ale, sorry, I don't know why I said Alex, I've never called you Alex.
02:24I don't know either, but I wasn't going to cut the video because it ends earlier.
02:27Well, wait, I'll tell you later.
02:30That one, almost.
02:32Who is the nicest in the dressing room in Spain?
02:34Koki, Koki and Paquito are the ones I have the most fun with.
02:37You don't mention Mike.
02:39Mike is on the list of eight.
02:43He's on the waiting list.
02:45A superpower, Ale.
02:47It would be to make me invisible.
02:49Because who do you want to see?
02:51No, I don't want to be seen, I want to be invisible.
02:53Who do you want to see being invisible?
02:56I want to get out of an uncomfortable situation.
03:00If you had to go to a desert island with a player from the tournament, who would it be?
03:06With Chingoto.
03:07With Chingoto?
03:08100%.
03:09Hey, doesn't it hurt to see him now playing for another team?
03:11No, no, no, it will hurt if he wins this tournament, but no, no.
03:16I want to play against someone else.
03:17We have a good time.
03:19Go for it.
03:19Yeah, Lazio!
03:21Fabulous.
03:22Finally!
03:23Very good.
03:24Hey, very good.
03:25You've also done very well.
03:28How is this experience in Qatar going?
03:31Well, I think that, first of all, Juanjo has created a very good team.
03:36The truth is that I have a very good relationship with everyone.
03:38And there's a lot of chemistry.
03:41I think it's been special since the first day.
03:43I hope to tell you that on Saturday night, but I feel it's very special.
03:47You're doing very well.
03:47I see that there's a good atmosphere.
03:49Before the tournament, there were some situations that could make you think otherwise.
03:55But when the tournament started, everything moved at once.
03:59And the truth is that I would tell you that we have a better relationship than before.
04:03More and more people play padel, there are more tracks.
04:07Padel is an unstoppable phenomenon.
04:08I think it's growing a lot all over the world.
04:10There are more and more clubs, more tracks, more people,
04:12more celebrities who play it and it helps a lot with sports too.
04:15You were talking about celebrities.
04:17Tell me, the first person that came to your mind,
04:19that surprised you a bit, that maybe he sent you a message,
04:22or he approached you, he told you something.
04:24I would tell you that Eva Longoria, who is a big fan.
04:27And yesterday, because I'm very Madridista.
04:29Yesterday, José Lu Mato, the former Real Madrid player,
04:32who is now living in Doha, came to see me.
04:34And for me, it was a huge Madridista illusion.
04:36But did he give you the shirt or not?
04:37Well, he came in casual clothes.
04:39So, in the end, he came to...
04:41José Lu, you have to ask him to give you the shirt now.
04:43I'll ask José Lu for the shirt, really.
04:45I think he's an idol.
04:46I'm a Madridista to death and I was very excited to see him here.
04:49Who do you think has been the player you've learned the most from?
04:53I would say Fernando Velazquez.
04:55Yes?
04:56I send him a big hug.
04:58I love him a lot.
04:59The way he sees the sport, how he lives it,
05:01how he has the discipline of day-to-day is what I've learned the most.
05:06Ready, men!
05:07The star couple of the Argentine team.
05:09Today I have prepared a precision challenge for Chingo.
05:12How are you? Nice to meet you.
05:13And for Agus.
05:14Hello, good morning.
05:15Okay, the question is that the first one to give that bottle I've put right in the middle
05:20has to ask the other person a very committed question.
05:23We're ready for that moment.
05:25We're ready.
05:26I hope you didn't agree before.
05:28No, no, no, no, no, because Chingo is pretty bad, I'm afraid.
05:31Bad?
05:33Asking the question, yes, yes, yes, he can...
05:35Good, good, great.
05:36Well, let's do it.
05:41I don't see the bottle.
05:43Because...
05:45Good luck, my friend.
05:49And he's been like this all morning, maybe.
05:52No, back to the beginning, man.
05:58I mean, everything...
05:59I had to think a little bit, because I had thought of one...
06:02But it's very bad.
06:03But it was very bad, it was very bad, it's very bad, it's very bad, it's very bad.
06:07Eh...
06:08It's okay, it's okay.
06:10Who was, to this day, your biggest rival on the pitch?
06:17Let's see, biggest rival...
06:19Yes, I mean...
06:21With this one, always, I mean, to death, I mean...
06:25Your biggest rival in your career, so far.
06:27I think I have two.
06:28The first one would be...
06:29No, no, stop.
06:30You can't say two.
06:31It's just one.
06:32One?
06:32It's just one.
06:34I think Ale.
06:36Because we've been competing for several years now,
06:40with Juan, with you, we've been playing a lot of games.
06:43I think he's one of the ones I've played the most games with.
06:47Do you want to try revenge?
06:48No!
06:51Oh, not bad.
06:52Go.
06:53Do the countdown, please.
06:55Oh!
06:56I can't believe it!
06:58Oh!
06:59You've got a great moment ahead of you.
07:02If I call you to end the year.
07:06What do you say?
07:08Oh!
07:10It's tough, eh?
07:12No, I say no.
07:15I say no.
07:15I'm loyal to Arancho.
07:17Arancho.
07:19I know that deep down, I don't know.
07:23We're here in Qatar, in the World Cup.
07:26A week that you've been waiting for, I imagine, a long time.
07:29Now you're current champions.
07:31How are you living these days?
07:34Well, the truth is that it's always nice to come back to Qatar,
07:36to this stadium, I think it's something incredible.
07:38But above all, what we enjoy the most is the team's union,
07:42enjoying Argentina.
07:44And here it comes out, as we are all,
07:47to have fun, to have fun,
07:49the friendship we all have,
07:51and the truth is that we enjoy it a lot.
07:53A week that we've been waiting for a long time.
07:55We really want to be called up, to be with the national team.
07:59Do you have anything to say
08:01about weeks like this, in which you spend a lot more time together?
08:04Do you remember that game in which you did this to me?
08:07Any episode that comes to mind?
08:11I think things come up all the time,
08:13and all the time it's to laugh.
08:15It's to laugh, to have a laugh.
08:17Yes, yes, nothing, we're constantly bothering each other.
08:20I want to show you a photo.
08:22Let's see this photo. What do you think?
08:24Give me a description.
08:26What photo is it?
08:28When you were the chicken.
08:31Now we have Agustín Tapia.
08:33The chicken, as they called him in Catamarca.
08:36Terrible hairstyle, right?
08:38What do you think?
08:40No, yes.
08:42The years came better, I think.
08:44I think, I think.
08:46My hairstyle was probably not like that,
08:48because I never did my hair like that.
08:50It was probably like that because it was after the game,
08:52but no, no, no. I've seen it, I've seen it.
08:54Oh, you've seen it.
08:57Oh, oh, oh, oh, please, I'm dying.
09:02Oh, you wanted to kill me,
09:04now you have to kill me.
09:06That's a great memory.
09:08If I'm not mistaken,
09:10it's the Panamericano of 2010 in Argentina.
09:14Next to me I have my partner and friend,
09:18who was, what was his name?
09:20He's not with us anymore,
09:22but I always take him with me and so on.
09:24And the truth is that I have great memories
09:26because we won a super epic game,
09:30so to speak, against Brazil 1-1
09:32and little is said, obviously.
09:34And the ball was bigger than you.
09:36No, the ball was bigger than me.
09:38I was a little ball, so to speak,
09:40and my hairstyle too.
09:42It saves me the hat,
09:44but the fringe I had there was interesting.
09:46What advice would you have given yourselves
09:48when you were starting?
09:50No, not at all.
09:52That you trust him a little more,
09:54obviously, that everything will work out
09:56and that sometimes when those ghosts
09:58appear that make you believe
10:00that it's not, that it's super difficult,
10:02that you can do it,
10:04and that here we are enjoying this great moment.
10:06Some children trying to fulfill a dream,
10:10which was first to come to Spain,
10:12to play the biggest circuit there is at that time.
10:18I also reached number one,
10:20which was the dream of my whole life.
10:22In the end, when I started playing this,
10:24it was the dream of everything,
10:26to get into your sport, maybe.
10:28And well, to the boys, to tell them,
10:30or to me...
10:32To you, to your mini-August.
10:34If you were going to see him now,
10:36what would you tell him?
10:38That you trust him,
10:40that with effort, sacrifice,
10:42in the end it was very hard
10:44to leave many things aside,
10:46family, friends,
10:48that all this is going to be worth it
10:50so that in the future
10:52I can be happy as I am now,
10:54both inside and off the track.
10:56Very good. Congratulations to both of you
10:58for this super race you are leading
11:00and good luck for the final.
11:02Thank you very much.
11:04The truth is that I really want
11:06to keep advancing in the tournament
11:08and hopefully be able to be playing
11:10and winning the final on Saturday.
11:12What do you feel being super female
11:14referents of the padel right now?
11:16Let's say you are the role models
11:18to follow right now.
11:20On a global level, also.
11:22Well, I think we have also had
11:24that role model in another moment
11:26and now maybe
11:28it is a responsibility
11:30to try to do it well,
11:32that everything goes on,
11:34but I think that above all now
11:36it is the desire to continue supporting the expansion,
11:38that everyone knows it,
11:40that everyone plays it,
11:42and try to live that step
11:44to try to keep getting bigger.
11:48Argentina is playing against Chile
11:50at the moment.
11:52It is their favorite team
11:54next to Spain, but let's see what happens.
11:56I have here these Argentine champions
11:58who are doing quite well at the moment, right?
12:00Yes, the truth is that
12:02they are doing very well
12:04and here we have the viking
12:06who luckily I have been playing with for two days.
12:08It seems that everything is between Spain and Argentina
12:10on both sides, right?
12:12Yes, at the moment it seems so.
12:14It is true that there are a lot of countries
12:16like Italy, like France, like Portugal
12:18that are bringing out
12:20new players,
12:22which is great.
12:24But well, now we are mixed,
12:26each one has the partner on one side, the partner on the other.
12:28But well, at the moment,
12:30as you say, it is between Spain and Argentina.
12:32Things also have to change
12:34so that the women's padel
12:36is, well, to begin with,
12:38the prize is the same.
12:40How is it for the sport?
12:42Well, luckily, a few years ago
12:44we already started to have the prize equalized.
12:48In the end, I think that the sport
12:50has to be made worth a little more.
12:52Nowadays the sport of men is being made worth a lot
12:54and that is great, it is a growth,
12:56it is a joint growth and thanks to that
12:58the women's sport is also growing.
13:00A lot of things are missing,
13:02people need to get used to
13:04seeing that the girls also play padel well,
13:06that not only play
13:08men well, obviously,
13:10I am not comparing the level of men
13:12with the level of women, I don't want them to attack me now,
13:14but that we can also do it very well
13:16and we can play very well and our game is more real.
13:18We are here with Juanjo Gutiérrez.
13:20Juanjo, we are going to take a walk
13:22around the village here in Qatar.
13:24We are already close
13:26to the most important moment.
13:28I imagine you have been dreaming
13:30about this day for a long time, right?
13:32Yes, the emotions are at their peak
13:34and also I have to
13:36keep calm because I have to
13:38manage the emotions of the players,
13:40which is the most important part of my job.
13:42Who is the player who has surprised you the most
13:44with the passing of time?
13:46Arturo Coelho has matured a lot
13:48and he is at the top of his game.
13:50No, I don't need you to say it.
13:52LeBron has also matured a lot.
13:54Yes.
13:56I was surprised by Jon Sands.
13:58One point, one specific moment
14:00of this tournament?
14:02Well, there is a point that
14:04Paquito and Coelho
14:06played very well.
14:08LeBron hit Coelho on the ground
14:10and he hit a wall behind his back.
14:12Paquito hit a ball
14:14one millimetre from the ground
14:16against the side wall.
14:18But there was a more important moment outside.
14:20What do you think when you say
14:22that you have reached 8?
14:24Did you imagine this when you started?
14:26The truth is that no.
14:28The first World Cup I played
14:30was in Calgary, Canada
14:32and I was an amateur.
14:34Of course, there were no cameras,
14:36no fans.
14:38I am very happy to have played
14:408 World Cups with the national team
14:42but above all, I am more happy
14:44to see where I have come
14:46and where my father is coming from.
14:48When I was 31, I was already a veteran
14:50because the team is very young.
14:52I hope I still have two or three more
14:54World Cups.
14:56I will fight for them.
14:58As you say, being a veteran
15:00I always try to have a good atmosphere
15:02and that the group is united.
15:08The Spaniards managed to get to the final
15:10after reaching the third set
15:12and the guys from Albiceleste
15:14repeated the result of 2022
15:16beating Spain 2-1.
15:18Argentina won their 12th
15:20World Cup in Padel.
15:22And that's all from this World Cup in Qatar.
15:24It has been spectacular.
15:26And now, see you in Milan.
15:30See you in Milan.