Rafael

When Rafael was studying medicine, he painfully saw how people afflicted by heart diseases died due to lack of adequate medical equipment.

Who is the greatest tennis player of all time, Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal?

Roger Federer is one of the few tennis players to have both delivered and suffered a crushing defeat in a Grand Slam final. He double-bagelled Lleyton Hewitt in the 2004 US Open final and himself got bagelled and breadsticked by Rafael Nadal in the 2008 French Open final.

Reading English makes Rafael dizzy.

Due to the lack of government support for sport, says Rafael Leitão, the professional chess player in Brazil has no financial stability at all. So, if you want to take chess seriously, you need to travel all the time to Europe and the United States to play in the big tournaments.

According to Rafael Leitão, it is very difficult for a professional chess player to get sponsorship in Brazil, because chess is not popular in our country.

Rafael Leitão points out that the insertion of chess in Brazilian schools is a positive fact, but he believes that we are still far from the minimum acceptable level for someone to earn stable incomes as a professional chess player.

Rafael Nadal's uncle once called him 'an injured person who plays tennis'.

When he heard that, Rafael stopped the horse.

At two o'clock in the morning, Rafael and I were still chatting away at the teahouse. I was drinking iced green tea, and he was drinking iced blueberry tea.