Looping Goodbye to Castella's powerful career: his farewell has no return
Farewell. Castella's "other universe": trip to Florence and the "need to get rich"
There are those who have put a long lament in the goodbye of Sebastián Castella, figure of bullfighting, bullfighter of first class squares, with 20 years of alternative.
Some even cling to the door ajar on the way back when they have not finished leaving yet.
They miss the focus partly but not entirely.
Castella leaves with the career amortized
.
As there are other contemporaries who have it.
An entire generation, I would say, that takes over the elite and that moves between 16 and 30 years of alternative.
And something
it must have crossed your mind when you contemplated the
au revoir
of
Le Coq
.
His farewells from the arena would be for natural cause
;
the problem is that, in a chain, they would cause a hecatomb.
And why should it be a hecatomb?
Why
the public made their names trademarks
, they know them and they know them - their bullfighting too - and, nevertheless, they continue to come to their claim.
Without its letters in the luminous ones, a fair cannot be held in business.
A fair cuts much less.
And at the same time they are the ones who have scored the highest caches in the recent decade and beyond.
Generating what they quote?
Surely yes;
probably not so much.
It was highly striking that in 2019
the absence of Roca Rey -the last, only and true generational change in the dome of bullfighting-
promote a new leadership of El Juli in the ranks and at the box office with more than two decades of alternative.
Sometimes it is easy to say that another time so and so would already be at home (self-criticism
on
): there were no careers that lasted eternities.
In '47, Manolete was leaving with five years at the top, since 1942, and eight as an alternative. Today, the situation is the whiting that bites its tail.
And it will continue to bite because at the root of the problem is cancer: the system has not been in charge of forging the relief.
There isn't.
And, for downloading blame, when the system has not been due to its closure - posters identical to those of 2007 are still being programmed - the calls for change have not materialized.
A handful of names of promises that had room, encouragement and opportunities come to the tip of my tongue
-also successes, ephemeral- and now they are three floors below the plant from where we wanted to push them. The most screwed up is that, before
the gravity of the looming horizon
, the fireproof and economically well-off figures will once again be essential to overcome, if there is a possibility of doing so.
And then we will be at the same point at the beginning of the piece:
neither Castella has a substitute
.
Not even in France, where his presence truly multiplied.
And worse than the most screwed up is that the day this generation of figures fold candles there is a desert.
Nobody thought that nothing is eternal.
Or if they thought about it, they hid them very well.
Or they had no other way out.
Also this article is the whiting that bites its tail, I guess.
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