Madrid’s right -handed Rafael de Julia, who had a strangely dazzled performance on March 23 in Las Ventas, has announced in a press release that lets fight “for an indefinite time” as a result of “her state of health”; Previously, the newspaper El Mundo had advanced that it is an eating disorder.
The lack of reflexes and forces that De Julia showed that afternoon before the asttados of Adolfo Martín, of which he had to sting up to three because of the cornada suffered by his partner Damián Castaño, aroused as much concern as reluctance among fans.
In the statement, the bullfighter himself confirms that health problem that was then glimpsed, although without specifying what the type of ailment he suffers, but warning that “in the coming weeks” he will inform “to all the fans and followers of his” evolution and his clinical picture. “
Likewise, in the note the gratitude “for the innumerable samples of concern, affection and support received by the bullfighter is expressed, which, even so,” his flame has not turned off and continues to dream of dressing again with lights. “
In this way, Rafael de Julia will not be able to act in the Goyesca run on May 2 in Las Sales, the day of the Community of Madrid, in which he was announced with the also Madrid’s Francisco José Espada and Diego García, who confirms his alternative, with bulls of Baltasar Ibán and Luis Algarra.
Rafael de Julia, a native of Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid), took the alternative on April 15, 2001 in the Plaza de Las Ventas, and a month later, on May 20, he managed to leave on his shoulders through the big door. His last Paseíllo was made at the Pilar de Zaragoza Fair in 2013. The following year he joined as a professor at the Madrid Bullfighting School, and in January 2023 he announced his return to the ring. That season acted five afternoons in American lands and one in Spain, and in 2024 he was one of the bullfighters highlighted in the Chenel Cup. On September 15 he participated in a contest run in Madrid, in which he went around the ring and won his inclusion in the celebration of March 23 and in the Goyesca run on May 2, in which he cannot participate.