We celebrated the official launch of the Business Club, our project that seeks to bring the business world closer to football and generate synergies between companies of different sizes and sectors.
The event, which took place at the Estadi Mallorca Son Moix, brought together more than 200 executives and CEOs from the island's leading companies, becoming one of the most important business gatherings this year.
RCD Mallorca's Business CEO, Alfonso Díaz, opened the event, highlighting the new club's goal, which is none other than "to create a business ecosystem on the pitch that allows for alliances, shared experiences, and project Mallorca beyond our borders thanks to the international impact of football."
Toni Nadal gave the opening keynote address, entitled: "Everything is trained." The former coach and mentor of Rafa Nadal for decades shared with the audience a vision forged in elite sports, where discipline, resilience, and the ability to adapt have been key to achieving success. Thus, for approximately an hour, the former coach of tennis player Rafa Nadal championed the passion for a job well done and an ethic of demanding standards as the driving force behind any project. "Improvement is always necessary and always possible."
He defended sincerity as the basis of strategy and recalled how, before a final in Monte Carlo, he told his nephew that Federer was better "at almost everything," in order to focus the plan on what they could control: enthusiasm, intensity, and playing every point as if it were the last. The island native's message focused on specific habits for achieving success, such as "daily preparation, responsibility without excuses, and the ability to endure a little longer when it hurts." The differentiating factor "is the most human, that is, character and attitude above technology," he emphasized after years of training in adverse conditions to strengthen his competitive level.
Finally, Toni Nadal shared with the more than 200 business leaders invited to the presentation of RCD Mallorca's new business club his recipe for applying it in business: "more preparation, pushing ourselves every day, not sleeping after a good result, and turning enthusiasm into sustained discipline." Everything, he insisted, comes with training.
Following his speech, the newly appointed fourth captain of the RCD Mallorca first team, Sergi Darder, joined the stage as a surprise guest. The two had a lively discussion, discussing topics such as the discipline and perseverance required to remain at the elite level, managing pressure in decisive matches, the role of the team versus individual effort, how to overcome adversity, and the pride of representing Mallorca in international sport.
Both Nadal and Darder agreed that values such as humility, sacrifice, and resilience are essential not only for sports but also for business.
A business event every month
It's worth remembering that the RCD Mallorca Business Club was created with the aim of offering entrepreneurs an exclusive environment to share experiences, establish quality contacts and access top-level content.
Each month an event will be held with prestigious speakers and collaborators, both local and national, who will address key issues of management, innovation, and sustainability, always with football as the backdrop.
