Paquirri: a tragedy with 25 years of life
Saturday, September 26th, 2009Paquirri, “Nibs” and Pozoblanco form a “whole” unbreakable since 25 years ago Francisco Rivera was fatally caught by the bull Sayalero and sew cute Bandrés in Los Llanos. Supporters, Alguacilillo health or the tragedy that evening changed the lives of bullfighting reviews the last hours of the bullfighter in Zahara de los Atunes for ABC.
At 6 in the afternoon of the September 26, Francisco Rivera did what would be his last little walk. With him were Jose Cubero “Yiyo”-which also die from a goring just a year later, and Vicente Ruiz “El Soro”.
The celebrations proceeded normally until the bullpen came in fourth bull of the afternoon, called “Nibs”. A bull that morning in the draw did not please some members of gangs. Theodore Cardador pozoalbense fan, was that morning in the yards and points out that “heard that the bull had a strange look, which seemed very ‘alive’, but I think it was a normal bull, small, like the rest of the bulls’ . But the truth is it was not like the others.
“The bull had been cast once when I was fighting with the cape, the second wine, the goring, when he led the horse. When the fuck, the clock on the square marked half-past seven o’clock. “After the butt-Guillen continues,” everything was a mess, there was great excitement. Proof of this is that those who carried him to the infirmary on wings’ entered the alley by the bullpen door, which was the farthest to Nursing intervenes Luis Lopez, who witnessed that afternoon.
Insufficient tourniquet
In its wake, Paquirri was leaving a blood trail, which cut the tourniquet that made him a member of his gang. In the infirmary was Juan Calero. In its more than ninety years, the practitioner of the plaza, still remembers that the torero de Zahara de los Atunes tried to reassure everyone.
Just over half an hour was Paquirri in the infirmary of the place, as it decided to move to Cordova, where we expect Dr. Ramon Vila. The destination was the Hospital Reina Sofia, but had to stop at the Military Hospital. Paquirri was dying.
Meanwhile, in Pozoblanco, had continued the celebration, but nothing was like before. The fans who packed the stands waiting for news they wanted to know what happened to the bullfighter. Jose Luis Ballesteros, amateur, went home with concern for the state of diestrus. “We stayed stone Paquirri knowing that he had died, we could not believe it.”
The news spread like wildfire through the town, the fair was no longer synonymous with celebration and announced the herd was suspended for the next day, which was announced Manuel Diaz ‘Manolo’, a student at the School of Cordoba Taurine, which later changed his nickname by ‘The Cordoba.
