“If one has the minimum conditions to be able to become professional, from there what’s most important is to be tenacious. There’s the case of Emilio Sanchez Vicario, the most tenacious, disciplined, and hardest-working player I have ever seen.

We will not forget that the Federation labeled Emilio “bad” and afterwards he became the seventh ranked player in the world.”

– Pato Alvarez

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Pato can be found teaching at the Sanchez-Casal Academy in Barcelona.