Two warm ears in Seville

The Peruvian bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey fights his first bull during the Easter Sunday bullfight, yesterday at the Real Maestranza in Seville

Sebastián Castella salutes following cutting off an ear yesterday at the first celebration of the season

The intense ambient cold and an unexpected downpour – which delayed the start of the celebration for almost 40 minutes – yesterday marked the development of the inaugural bullfight of the bullfighting season in the Plaza de la Maestranza in Seville, barely sweetened by the trophies that Sebastián paraded Castella and Roca Rey.

Four bulls from Hermanos García Jiménez and two bulls from Olga Jiménez and Román Sorando were fought, jumping in third and sixth place. The first turned out to be soft and soulless; He had a good background, especially on the left, the second; The serious third was a great bull because he was early and important; He had no class or rhythm in the fourth. Fifth and sixth were lackluster.

Morante de la Puebla was silent in both.

The box office success of the Easter Sunday bullfight was assured although the weather, which had already ruined a forgettable Holy Week, once once more went once morest the grain before the start of the celebration in the form of a long downpour that forced the start to be delayed and fix the state of the arena.

In this situation, the bullfight began with an enormous delay that accumulated as the cold worsened, barely covered by the ears of different weights that Sebastián Castella and Andrés Roca Rey cut at the central node of a bullfight, in which The bad luck of Morante de la Puebla was lamented.

The twists and turns of bullfighting politics had influenced the formation of a shortlist that, on the street, had been dreamed of in a different way. The natural creditor for third place – assuming that Morante and Roca had a permanent position – was Daniel Luque, but the undisguised veto exercised by his Peruvian colleague ended up closing the door on him.

Roca was going to hear the name of his rival during the fight of the two bulls that were his lot, which, curiously, would not be any of the ones his men had drawn in the morning. The fact is that the third was going to be a terrifying hat by Olga Jiménez that allowed us to contemplate the best records of the Lima right-hander, who put aside his most effective resources to fight temperately, fittedly and with a defined line.

It was a task that took advantage in its first stages of the promptness of the immense and serious Matilla bull. The bull asked for almost everything in the long distance and this is how Roca Rey saw it in several rounds of muletazos with both hands finished off with excellent chest passes. The Peruvian right-hander tried to lengthen the struggle when the animal was asking for death, but a forceful thrust tied the ear that he walked.

The sixth was going to be another hat marked with Román Sorando’s iron which, surprisingly, did not replace any returned bull. The explanation would not take long to emerge: the Matilla bull trained to jump into the ring was congested in the corrals, useless for the fight. The substitute was a meek, familiar man who did not allow the slightest show off.

The other ear was cut by Sebastián Castella to a third party with little presence who showed his good background when the Frenchman put his crutch to his left hand. It was a temperate task that had the virtue of allowing the attack to make it flow naturally, the fundamental basis of a task finished off with a good thrust. The fifth was barely going to give him any options.

Morante had fought ahead. The right-hander reappeared in Seville following stopping bullfighting in Almendralejo and Navalmoral de la Mata and gave his all with an almost impossible result. Three or four sets and a handful of muletazos were going to be, in reality, the best of the followingnoon.—EFE