{"id":23382,"date":"2026-05-14T14:51:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/23382\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:51:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:51:02","slug":"real-madrid-rafael-nadal-to-become-new-real-madrid-president-after-florentino-perez-tennis-legend-breaks-silence-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/23382\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid: Rafael Nadal to become new Real Madrid president after Florentino Perez? Tennis legend breaks silence | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/rafael-nadal-and-florentino-perez.jpg\" alt=\"Rafael Nadal to become new Real Madrid president after Florentino Perez? Tennis legend breaks silence\" title=\"Rafael Nadal and Florentino Perez\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Rafael Nadal and Florentino Perez NEW DELHI: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rafael-nadal\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rafael Nadal<\/a> has denied rumours that he plans to run for president of Real Madrid after reports linked him to the role following a disappointing season for the Spanish club.Speculation started after current president Florentino Perez announced fresh club elections. With Madrid ending the season without a major trophy, many fans were unhappy, and reports claimed Nadal could enter the race to replace Perez. However, the tennis legend quickly rejected the claims.  <\/p>\n<p> Watch<\/p>\n<p> Indian tennis star Shrivalli opens up on injuries &amp; comeback journey\u201cI have read reports that link me to possible candidacies for the presidency of Real Madrid. I would like to clarify that these reports are not true,\u201d Nadal posted on X.Perez also made it clear that he has no plans to resign despite criticism from supporters after a poor campaign. Real Madrid lost the La Liga title to rivals Barcelona and were knocked out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/uefa-champions-league\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UEFA Champions League<\/a> by Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals.\u201cI am not going to resign,\u201d Perez said during a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Poll<\/p>\n<p>How do you feel about Florentino Perez continuing as president of Real Madrid?<\/p>\n<p>The long-time club president avoided discussing transfers or coaching changes and instead focused on defending his overall record at the club. Perez reminded fans that Real Madrid have won multiple trophies during his leadership across football and basketball.\u201cI sometimes share the frustration that this year we haven\u2019t managed to win anything,\u201d Perez admitted. \u201cHowever, I must remind you that, with me as president, we\u2019ve won 66 titles.\u201dAs pressure grows around the club, Perez insisted that anyone unhappy with his leadership is free to contest the elections.\u201cWhy do they want to get rid of me? Just because a few people are saying they want to stand for election? Let them stand.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal and Florentino Perez NEW DELHI: Rafael Nadal has denied rumours that he plans to run for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1693,9288,82,12404,712,83,11867,12402,2735,12403,1236],"class_list":{"0":"post-23382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-madrid","8":"tag-florentino-perez","9":"tag-la-liga-title","10":"tag-madrid","11":"tag-madrid-fan-frustration","12":"tag-rafael-nadal","13":"tag-real-madrid","14":"tag-real-madrid-elections","15":"tag-real-madrid-presidency","16":"tag-sports-news","17":"tag-tennis-legend","18":"tag-uefa-champions-league"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}