What channel is the match between Spain and Switzerland today (18-11-24)? UEFA Nations League FREE LIVESTREAM, time, TV channel

The Swiss men’s national football team visits Spain for a rematch on the final matchday of the 2024/25 UEFA Nations League group stage on Monday, November 18, 2024 (11/18/2024) at Estadio Heliodoro Rodriguez Lopez in Santa Cruz, Spain.

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Here’s what you need to know:

What: UEFA Nations League, matchday 6

Who: Spain vs. Switzerland

When: November 18, 2024

Time: 2:45 PM ET

Where: Estadio Heliodoro Rodriguez Lopez

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Here’s a recent AP football story:

MALAGA, Spain (AP) — Rafael Nadal’s impending retirement will loom over the Davis Cup Final 8 as it begins Tuesday in southern Spain.

If that wasn’t already obvious, just look at the 2,600-square-foot banner — about half the size of a football field — that wraps around the football stadium across the street from the tennis arena. The blue sign, visible from the highway leaving Malaga airport, is marked with large white letters that read “GRACIAS, RAFA.” Between those two words is an image of Nadal holding a tennis racket in his left hand while wearing one of his signature sleeveless shirts and his equally ever-present headband.

He is shown with his back to the world as he walks away, symbolizing the 38-year-old Spaniard’s retirement from the sport after a remarkable career.

“It’s going to be very exciting for everyone,” said tournament director Feliciano Lopez, a former player who faced Nadal as a singles opponent 14 times on tour and was also his Davis Cup teammate. “Very emotional at the same time.”

That sentiment probably applies to Nadal’s fans, other players, his family – his wife and their son attended the training – and, quite understandably, to the 22-time Grand Slam champion himself as Tuesday approaches. Spain will then face the Netherlands on an indoor hard court in the Palacio de Deportes Jose Maria Martin Carpena.

“It’s amazing that this might be the last match Nadal plays,” captain Paul Haarhuis said on Sunday, “and we hope to give him a nice ‘Adios’.”

Nadal underwent hip surgery in June 2023 and missed almost the entire season. This year he dealt with a new hip muscle problem and an abdominal injury, part of a long line of problems that contributed to his body feeling like what he described in May as “a jungle” after losing in the first round of the French Open. he has won a record 14 times at the clay Slam.

That was his only Grand Slam appearance all year; Nadal has played a combined total of just 23 official singles matches over the past two seasons. That includes a 12-7 win in 2024. His last real matches came at the Olympic Games in early August, when he lost in the second round of singles to Novak Djokovic and in the quarter-finals of doubles alongside Carlos Alcaraz.

Spain captain David Ferrer, the 2013 French Open runner-up to Nadal, has not yet told the world how he will use the star in Malaga.

Could be for singles, although Nadal said he will step aside if he thinks he can’t win. Could play doubles with his 21-year-old heir apparent, Alcaraz, in an extension of their ‘Nadalcaraz’ partnership. It could be both. If Spain gets past the Netherlands, it will face Germany or Canada in the semi-finals on Friday.

“I really want him to retire with a title,” Alcaraz said.

In Thursday’s quarterfinals, the United States will play Australia, and defending champion Italy – whose roster includes No. 1 Jannik Sinner – will play Argentina. The winners of those matchups will meet in the semifinals on Saturday; the championship will be decided on Sunday.

When Nadal explained last month that the Davis Cup would be something for him, he spoke in cheerful terms about his more than twenty years in the sport.

“Really, everything I’ve experienced has been a dream come true,” he said.

He becomes the second member of men’s tennis’ so-called Big Three to retire.

Roger Federer announced his departure in 2022 – teaming Nadal in doubles at the Laver Cup and then crying alongside his old rival and eventual friend – while Djokovic remains at the top of the game.

Djokovic’s Serbia did not qualify for the quarter-finals of the Davis Cup, but he wrote on social media that he would be present in Malaga. Who knows who else will appear in the sold-out crowd of 9,200 on Tuesday, not just from the tennis world, and not just athletes from other sports, but other celebrities too?

“I don’t know if we’ll have seats for everyone,” Lopez said. “Everyone wants to be there at his farewell.”

There will be plenty of people watching on TV from afar, including other tennis players of course.

‘I’m going to look at it. I’m going to enjoy it,” said 2021 US Open champion Daniil Medvedev, who lost to Nadal in two Grand Slam finals. “It’s a big moment for the sport because he has done so much for the sport.”