“The presence of Morante on the posters of Seville is a dream I have, but now I cannot advance anything, because I must wait for the bullfighter’s positioning, which has not yet occurred; it depends on him.”
This is how José María Garzón, president of Lances de Futuro, a brand new businessman from the Plaza de La Maestranza, expressed himself this morning in Seville in a gathering with the media to current his preliminary functions as supervisor of the sector.
Garzón has visited the bullfighter twice, the primary in his refuge in Portugal, and the second, just some days in the past, in La Puebla del Río, however in neither of them has he discovered a definitive response from the bullfighter.
It appears that Morante is sort of recovered emotionally, and has even just lately participated in a tentadero at Álvaro Núñez’s Portuguese property, however it isn’t probably that he’ll reappear in Seville this season, neither in April nor on the San Miguel honest. The bullfighter is conscious that he should respect the solemnity of his retirement on October 12 in Las Ventas, and for the second he won’t make any choice on this regard, though he doesn’t rule out his participation within the Goya bullfight in Ronda as the one efficiency in 2026.
In any case, José María Garzón doesn’t lose hope, and from his phrases it may be deduced that he should mix the posters of the Sevillian season ticket with out the presence of the bullfighter. In this regard, he was reminded of a current {photograph} with Morante that he printed on social networks with the slogan ‘We dream’, and he mentioned that it referred to the dream of spending a day with Morante. He added that “I don’t have a deadline to wait for it, although there are deadlines.” “I don’t know what the chances are that he will return; he is a person who has an illness and we cannot push, we have to respect his circumstances,” he concluded. Regarding his administration on the head of the Sevillian plaza, he famous that “we are with the utmost enthusiasm and with all the responsibility, but we are still landing; we have entered a great house and we have to furnish it.”
He added that the brand new firm has assumed a hundred percent of the Pagés group,” and focused on one of the fundamental points of his project: the subscribers. “We wish to give a really particular remedy to our purchasers,” he explained, “and our premium shopper is the subscriber; We will give them a ten% low cost and they’ll have entry to different new experiences.” He confessed that his goal is to increase the number of subscribers by 600, “which might convey us nearer to three,000.” He will create a youth season ticket for those under 25 years of age, and announced the recovery of the Real Venta de Antequera, in disuse for 38 years, to exhibit “5 – 6 bullfights” that will be fought in the Maestranza.
Regarding the design of the season, he announced that after the bullfight on Easter Sunday, April 5, there will be celebrations on April 10, 11 and 12, and the continued cycle will run from April 15, Wednesday, to Sunday the 26th. On Corpus Christi, June 4, a bullfight will be held. Between May and June there will be bullfights with picadors, one of them the Andalusia Circuit Final. Some June bullfights will be announced on Thursdays at night, and the San Miguel fair (there will be no bulls on August 15) will be held over an extended weekend, from Thursday to Sunday, moving on to October 12, which will continue to be a charity celebration. He noted that his intention is to leave some positions free in the bullfights and in San Miguel to accommodate the winners, “however it’s one thing that I’ve to speak to the Board to check its regulatory suitability.”
In the livestock section, Garzón has confirmed the return of the La Quinta livestock farm and the debut of the Álvaro Núñez currency. The bulls from Puerto de San Lorenzo will also return in a cast that, in general terms, will maintain the roster of recent times. Regarding the television broadcast of the April Fair, it opted for a mixed model that combines the return of the cameras of the One Toro platform, absent from the Maestranza in 2025 due to disagreements with the company Pagés, with the broadcast on Canal Sur that was already experienced last season. “The issue is going in the right direction,” he said.
The posters will likely be introduced at a gala, just like the one organized by the Plaza 1 firm in Madrid, earlier than February 20.
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