It's like stumbling into a Champions League final in the qualifying phase.
Just four days after San Isidro, boom!
When the Seville prizes that
El Juli has monopolized as the winner and Morante de la Puebla as the author of the best work
are still going on, here they are together, on this May 11, so coveted and valued, with the silver bulls of La Quinta.
And Pablo Aguado, of course.
The cocktail, shaken but not stirred, gives rise to an overflowing expectation, a resounding "no tickets", a fired resale.
The long-awaited poster is historic for what it represents
: the return to life of Las Ventas in its fullness, the full capacity, the full to the tiles.
Autumn does not count, with attendance reduced by covid, admission reduced to 50%.
As in the April Fair, people have responded in a rush to the demand of the figures, with unrestrained joy, after two years of confinement, without a party or bullfighting.
The curl of the curl falls on the livestock of La Quinta, Santa Coloma-Buendía encaste.
None of the three bullfighters find it foreign, despite the fact that it is not usual in their livestock preferences.
The work of the Martínez-Conradi family
has put them there, "in this flashy poster that we are not used to, with this pressure," Álvaro says with an inward voice, such is "the scared one."
“Success or failure will depend on whether La Quinta works or not.
As Pepe Luis Vázquez used to say before fighting, 'I can't even fit the bone of an olive', concludes Álvaro Martínez-Conradi with his soul in suspense.
Last year Morante decided to stock the Martínez Conradi family's first bullfight of his career in Arles (France) in his commitment to widening the range of encastes and bloods.
Pablo Aguado also signed up with the happy ending of a triplet.
El Juli, however, has already fought La Quinta bulls
in Madrid, Bilbao, Nimes, Mont de Marsan, Bayonne, among other bullrings.
In the end, the billboard comes to be the result of carefully fine-tuning the livestock, of working to polish that absent ending so typical of his blood and giving him one more point of humiliation, one more step, with new stallions: "I don't want to talk very high".
How is the bullfight?
«Cinqueña, harmonic, serious... Other years we were criticized for being a chubby bull.
We chose her a year ago.
It comes with the point that everyone likes.
There are six approved and we bring another two [as hats].
They removed a bull, rightly so, that did not give rags and another very serious but that weighed 480. And it is already known that in Madrid if they do not see 5 [of the 500 kilos] on the scale... », the rancher says goodbye .
Asked at COPE, El Juli explained the reasons for his commitment to this cattle ranch in this San Isidro with so much commitment: "I have chosen it because I like bullfighting and I think it can attack.
I do not do this type of thing in terms of demagogic
to look good with the fan.
The bullfighter has a responsibility that is to try to make the public happy with his performance and that they enjoy the things that a bullfighter does.
The bullfights that I fight, I choose because I think they can give what the public expects of me.
Despite the humility that the words of the Madrid figure give off, there is a gesture in this commitment of the three bullfighters by announcing themselves with a herd that is out of the ordinary.
It should not fall on deaf ears, especially in a bullring where the bull is the axis, the pillar, the demand of Madrid.
El Juli arrives at the plaza that most demands it after opening its seventh Puerta del Príncipe de Sevilla on a colossal afternoon with the extraordinary Garcigrande bullfight.
Last season he cut off two ears in Las Ventas after a sensational job at the festival for the reopening of the square [Dos de Mayo].
And he came back two afternoons to show his face at the Fall Fair.
He will still have one more paseo in San Isidro
, to confirm the alternative to Tomás Rufo, on May 20, with bulls from Garcigrande -another winner of Seville-, with Alejandro Talavante as witness.
Morante lands with the most resounding task of his career in Seville.
He returns to Madrid with the commitment of three afternoons in the isidril cycle.
And Pablo Aguado returns after that memorable task
to the bull of Montalvo in the San Isidro of 2019. His last walk was in the Corrida de la Prensa that year, afternoon in which he would be injured.
He will return with the run of Juan Pedro.
His class, in need of a fuse, rounds out the poster.
A sign of plenitude, of a return to life, of "there are no tickets" for hope.
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