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Men's tennis player Alvaro Verdu, who is from Madrid, hopes Catalonia will remain part of Spain.
Ask junior men’s tennis player Alvaro Verdu, who lives in the small, Spanish coastal village of Elda, what he thinks about the recent Catalan independence referendum, and he responds without any hesitation.
“I’m totally against (Catalonian independence), because one of the beauties of Spain is that we’re such a diverse country,” Verdu said. “Every region has its own traditions, its own gastronomy, its own … culture. (The seperatists) are trying to end it in Catalonia and build up new walls and new borders.