Bullfighting: César Rincón returns to the ring, at 60 years outdated, to defend Colombian bullfighting tradition | Culture | EUROtoday

The Colombian bullfighter César Rincón introduced yesterday in Seville his intention to return to the bullring, at 60 years outdated, with the intention of “defending and vindicating” the bullfighting tradition of his nation, the place subsequent yr bullfighting can be definitively prohibited by decree of the Government of Gustavo Petro.

Without but specifying particular dates or locations, the veteran right-hander has in thoughts the event, each in Colombia and in Europe, of the challenge of some so-called “pre-Columbian bullfights”, which, in an analogous sense to the standard Goya or Picasso bullfights, may have a staging and allegorical clothes to the cultures originating from his land, though bullfighting didn’t attain America till years after the conquest by the Spanish.

“In reality,” Rincón defined, “my return to the bullring is an act of rebellion, motivated by the nonconformity of seeing my passion and the centuries-old bullfighting roots of my country attacked. I even feel obliged to confront, in this way, that wrong policy that is going to end the culture of millions of people and what I have been all my life with.”

Together with the Mexican businessman Guillermo Chapa, César Rincón plans to prepare these “events” on particular days of the Spanish bullfighting season and within the final marketing campaign that’s scheduled to be held in Colombia, “without the desire for triumph of my beginnings, but for pure vindication and, why deny it, also for my personal satisfaction, since at my age I am still prepared to be able to do it,” careworn the Colombian.

Rincón, retired since 2007, defined that he intends to take part in bullfights “that are not the normal circuit, it is not entering the San Isidro Fair and fighting any bullfight. They have to be very special things.”

The bullfighter was additionally very motivated by the brand new generations of followers, the younger individuals who noticed him combat for the primary time on the Madrid pageant: “I want to leave them a legacy that is the perseverance, dedication and passion that someone has to put into what one does. That is everything. I felt that I had to get out of my comfort zone: I am rich thanks to my profession and the bull, I don’t need anything, but I was very comfortable in my chair and I thought that this was not the life. I started walking, training and preparing and I recovered that hope for life. That is the most important thing for youth: not to stop setting goals.”

He recognized that his reference is that of Antonio Chenel Antoñetewho remained in the arena until he was well into his seventies, and who, in addition, was godfather of the Rincón’s own alternative, held in the plaza of his native Bogotá in 1982, when he began a career in which he achieved the historic milestone of leaving on his shoulders through the Puerta Grande of Madrid’s Plaza de Las Ventas four consecutive times, already in 1991.

As the greatest Colombian bullfighter of all time, Rincón crossed that same door twice more during his active years and even a third time, on October 12, at the end of the festival held in tribute to Antoñete himself, in which he cut off two ears after a plethora of tasks.

Encouraged by this success, the one from Bogotá nonetheless carried out this winter in two different festivals within the Colombian squares of Cali and Manizales and is introduced for one more, subsequent June, in Istres, within the southeast of France, which would be the prior preparation for that “pre-Columbian bullfight” challenge of which, he stated, he’ll give particular particulars later.