Morante de la Puebla will return to the ring in Seville half a yr after retiring | Culture | EUROtoday

José Antonio Morante de la Puebla will return to the bullring to struggle 4 afternoons in Seville this yr, as confirmed by the Maestranza firm. The bullfighter will carry out the Paseíllo on Easter Sunday, two afternoons on the April Fair and on the day of the Corpus Christi competition. In addition, the corporate has introduced that “it will leave a free space in San Miguel [29 de septiembre]in case the maestro decided to fight, or in his case for an outstanding bullfighter of the season.” On his first afternoon, on April 5, he will be accompanied by Andrés Roca Rey and David de Miranda.

The right-hander from La Puebla had made the decision to retire from bullfighting on October 12, at the end of his performance in the Plaza de Las Ventas in Madrid, after a very strong somersault and opening the main gate of Madrid for the second time in his career as a matador. Since then, pressure from fans and companies to reconsider that withdrawal – which has been limited to the fall and winter rest months – has only grown. José María Garzón, businessman of the Maestranza of Seville, already anticipated the possibility of a return in January: “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 positioning of the bullfighter, which has not yet occurred; it depends on him.”

The businessman, appointed in November of last year, went to Portugal to feel out the bullfighter’s intentions and visited him again a few days ago at the Huerta de San Antonio, the matador’s recreational estate on the banks of the Guadalquivir. Then he published a photograph on his WhatsApp status in which he was walking next to Morante with the caption: “dreaming…”, which set off alarm bells. Although these are the one afternoons confirmed in the intervening time for the right-hander this yr, the pinnacle of Las Ventas, Rafael García Garrido, already stated in Abc who doesn’t rule out bullfighting in 2026 in Madrid, and dropped that he may achieve this within the goyesca.

October final yr was not the primary time that Morante de la Puebla left the sector, however the occasion acquired such nice relevance that it gave the impression to be the definitive one. He had already gained the 2021 National Bullfighting Prize on three earlier events, and on none of them did he cease bullfighting for greater than a yr. In 2005 he determined to droop the season “due to mental problems,” and returned months after spending time in Miami, the place he acquired medical therapy. In June 2007 he suspended his season once more to return on January 6 of the next yr. And he retired for the third time on April 13, 2017, after a run in El Puerto de Santa María the place he introduced that he was leaving resulting from “boredom”, solely to reappear on May 12, 2018 in Jerez de la Frontera.