“I started drawing like any child, what happens is that I didn’t stop.” Luis Cabrera, who many will know him better as @sevillafcomic, now @LudeLui_, brings to light “The goal that changed our lives”, an original comic about the most important night in the history of Sevilla Fútbol Club. After the great reception of “I am Sevilla FC”, the cartoonist saw the opportunity to launch a story that “had been on his mind for years”, and he does so at Christmas, a holiday in which “I have always loved that give me things from Sevilla”.
Luis has been a Sevilla supporter since he can remember. He also does not remember the first time he picked up a pencil and began to draw, he has always done it, and perhaps that is the reason why the people closest to him tell him that he does not value the complexity of what he does. he does. “They have always had to tell me that I can dedicate myself to this.” So much so that Luis began his Marketing career, although he wasn’t very convinced either in some classes in which he “took the notebook and filled it with drawings.”
What he did not know is that in one of those drawings was the key to his future. He was portraying the Virgen de la Macarena, because in addition to being a Sevillista, Luis is from Seville, and one of his teachers knew how to see the talent that the writer himself did not appreciate. Soon after, he arrived at the School of Fine Arts invited by one of the instructors. “I felt like an intruder.” Fortune, coincidence, or destiny itself for those who believe in it, meant that one night when classes and Seville coincided, Luis’s future began to take shape.
On the one hand, a professor ventured that social networks were an ideal showcase to express oneself, while at the same time at the Sánchez-Pizjuán, Emery’s Sevilla came back from a Europa League quarterfinal tie against Porto. Our protagonist’s light bulb went off listening to the return game on the bus, as if it were one of his cartoons, and he decided to create @sevillafcomic.
Little by little the account grew, but as often happens in networks, his account multiplied exponentially as a result of a particular cartoon. “I was in my neighborhood sitting on a bench with my colleague and my phone would not stop ringing.” The day before, Sevilla had been proclaimed five-time European champions in Basel, and Luis wanted to immortalize it as he knows how to do best.
SEVILLA FOOTBALL CLUB CHAMPION OF THE EUROPA LEAGUE!! FIVE CHAMPION, IT’S GOING FOR YOU! pic.twitter.com/MvHMQZ3W7R
— Ludelui (@Ludelui_) May 18, 2016
“I manage flattery naturally, but insults leave me in a bad body.” And it is that fame, although “it is not Maluma”, also keeps the worst drinks of it. “Lately I get more hate“, admits the writer. He thought that he would never touch him because “I don’t mess with anyone”, but if he manages compliments naturally, it is more natural to recognize that insults, contempt and disrespect hurt. “Over time I try to make it better,” he clarifies.
It is as important to have a talent as to know how to exploit it, and Luis has always been lucky, or has known how to find it, to surround himself with people who have done it. “I have never thought of taking professional profit from the account.” He worked as a layout designer, in Cazalla de la Sierra, and received a call from Javi Nemo. He was the first to bet on him professionally, and it didn’t take him half a second to return to Seville to write his first comic: “I am Sevilla FC”. The acceptance was wonderful and the editorial did not let it escape. “The benefit I get is working at my job.”
His right hand in the editorial, and almost also his left, is Iván Parrilla, the person who squeezes Luis’s talent “daily”. “I’ve always had a person behind me who has had to push me and exploit a talent that I don’t see myself as capable of,” he explains.
The goal that changed our lives is the new work of Luis M. Cabrera. “I wanted to do an original story, scripted by me.” The editorial did not even think about it, and when the writer handed it in “many colleagues were moved.” It is the story of Paco, a man from Seville whose life is bringing him closer to loneliness, but in April 2007 football turns him upside down. It is not necessary to contextualize what historical moment we are talking about, any Sevilla player has it engraved on fire.
Luis tells the story of Paco, one of many that will last forever in the memory of half the city of Seville. Luis was 11 years old, but he remembers his father coming into his room yelling “GOL DE PUERTA” while he was playing ball. play. “When he went to extra time I stopped listening to him”, children’s things.
The one who surely remembers that moment with hair and signs is Monchi, author of the prologue of the work. A relative contacted Luis and he offered the sports director the chance to do so. Monchi, “the most influential person in the history of Sevillian football”, did not hesitate, even though the times forced him to do so at dawn. “It hurt me to think that he had to take time off,” Luis admits.
Neither Monchi nor his Sevilla are having the best time sportingly speaking, to whom the cartoonist asks for “an entire team” for this month of January. Although that yes, “with Seko Fofana I am satisfied”. Luis is “positive” in life, also with the future of Sevilla, despite the fact that “now whatever he does goes wrong.” For him it is a matter of changing the dynamics, turning the tide as soon as possible.
Christmas is a time of illusion, joy and, of course, family. If Luis had to choose a person to read his book, he would not hesitate at any time, he chooses his girlfriend. “Hopefully my comic will help people who are not fond of reading to start doing it.” Who has already read it is his twin brother, they share blood, but of different colors. Daniel’s is green. And he sure that he also has his “goal that changed our lives.”