Bulls in Las Ventas: Curro Díaz, with a return to the ring, overcomes with dedication the mourning for his father | Culture

The right-handed Curro Díaz, who performed the Paseíllo today in Las Ventas just two days after the death of his father, went back to mourning with a dedicated performance that earned him an applauded return to the ring, once the presidency denied him an ear requested by the majority of the public.

In such painful circumstances, the bullfighter from Linares gave his all, as did his companions, against a batch of Martín Lorca’s bulls that gave a very poor performance, weighed down by the lack of drive and also by a moderate race from which the three swords knew how to get more benefits than expected.

But the one who saw his effort recognized the most was Curro Díaz, who always had the support of the line, and who held nothing back with a first of the afternoon who used his serious and fleet-footed weaponry to constantly try to trip over his crutch and leaving the embroques without surrender when he failed. The veteran from Jaen gradually got the hang of it and, with good timing and heights, delivered good-natured muletazos with both hands, always seeking naturalness, although then he did not have the effectiveness with the sword that he did achieve with the second of his batch, who fell first due to the effects of a sword that came in somewhat detached. That detail was perhaps the one that the presidency clung to in order to ignore the majority’s request for an ear that this time caused a task of less clean passes, but more linked, while Curro Díaz managed to take advantage of the dull and short starts of the animal, placing himself closer and also reducing the demand for the line, with the line supporting until the last moment.

Although it was impossible to get anything clear from a first afflicted and without hardly any strength, which forced it to be shortened, Rafael Serna later did a task of enormous technical merit to the fifth of Martín Lorca’s men, even though it did not find an echo among the public on this Easter Sunday in Madrid. This other bull from the Sevillian batch was not only not used, but had a fixed tendency to sharply point out the deceptions, which Serna skillfully avoided by emptying the passes under the shovel of the pitons, especially with his right hand, where he even managed to link them with a short but sufficient distance, all from the basis of stamina and natural courage.

The performance of Mexican Diego San Román was also characterized by firmness, even though he demanded more than necessary from a third of the afternoon who moved with will in an open task with three tight passes exchanged behind him. It was by giving him more pauses and space that the man from Querétaro achieved the best moments of a game so long that there was time for two warnings to sound. And another heard in the sixth before even mounting the sword, once from the middle of the work onwards San Román found the precise rhythm to lengthen the sleepy and subdued attack of a rough hat by Carmen Valiente whom, even at the pace, he made his muleta follow with adjustment and travel, but also without an adequate response from the position.