The organizers distributed 10,000 t -shirts to honor the Spanish, 14 times champion of the tournament. Some quickly were selling it on the Internet.
The organizers of the France Open distributed 10,000 brick -colored t -shirts on Monday for Sunday’s tribute to Rafael Nadal, 14 times champion of Roland Garros, And although most people took the memory home, several tried to sell them on the Internet for up to 500 euros.
The t -shirts “Merci Rafa” They turned the stands into a living canvas, while at the top of the upper stands, fans with white t -shirts formed a mosaic: “Rafa” flanked by hearts and characters “14 RG”.
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Rafael Nadal’s tribute t -shirts
The shirts were put up for sale on Monday morning with prices ranging between 150 and 500 euros, for disappointment of the French Tennis Federation (FFT).
“That some people take the opportunity to make money with the ‘Merci Rafa’ shirt, it seems a bit deplorable, but in the end we were not going to withdraw the shirt,” FFT president Gilles Moretton told the press.
“We did something unique and with the singularity sometimes comes this type of drift. I saw prices that scared me.”
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