2023-11-15 17:21:52
Updated Wednesday, November 15, 2023 – 16:21
Enrique Ponce in 2020.EFE
When Enrique Ponce said goodbye without saying it In 2021, that is, somewhat French-style, he left the door ajar to do so, later, at the height of the fertile history of his unattainable 30 years – of milestones and figures – as a bullfighting figure.
That goodbye will finally take shape, after a sustained rumor mill over the last year that has accelerated this fall until it skyrocketed with the publication earlier this week of the photograph on social networks of Simn Casas from the meeting they held in a restaurant in Madrid, Casas himself, his partner Rafael Garca Garrido and Juan Ruiz, Ponce’s attorney.
The teacher’s idea is to make a special goodbye tour in 2024 with a starting point in Nimes (France) at the end of May and touring the major fairs and fairs of the bullfighting circuit in a selective way that make your afternoons events. The lack of incentives also helps to make this happen. A very favorable landscape for your return after leaving El Juli.
There will be no more than 20 afternoons in principle, nor less than 15 (approximately). There is a dull rumor, like the one that precedes an auction, among businessmen about having Enrique Ponce. What will be the goodbye tour stages from Ponce? Still to be defined in its entirety, it seems clear that, beyond the start in Nîmes, the Valencian master wants his last afternoon to be in Valencia, his land, after the border of summer, on the date of October 9, the day of the Valencian Community. The project still in formation would be announce all appointments of his season as if of a tour
Madrid? Yes, it is in the plans, but not at the San Isidro Fair, but it could be in Autumn. Garca Garrido, in fact, has already met with Ponce on a couple of occasions – apart from this Monday’s meeting with Juan Ruiz – to discuss and explore the possibilities. As the visible head of Plaza 1 and Nautalia Espacios 360, managers of the Las Ventas and Jtiva Street arenas, respectively, Garrido got up early to meet before anyone else with Enrique Ponce, the penultimate time at his Cetrina estateand Jan.
Everything seems to indicate that places such as Arls -la Goyesca-, Alicante, Mlaga, Almera, Santander, Gijn, Pontevedra, Murcia, will enter, in principle, in the plans of “the goodbye tour”. Some will fall and others will enter. And a place as significant in Ponce’s history as Bilbao? It is not disposable. Like many others that make up the cast to make up the farewell that could not live up to an unattainable career.
“The first thing I want to say is thank you for your love and unconditional support, especially during this last year of pandemic in which I decided to defend bullfighting, move forward and give back to the world of the bull how much he has given me. At this point in my 2021 bullfighting season I have decided to take a break and retire for an indefinite period,” the Chiva maestro published in their social networks on June 28, 2021 after pulling the wagon in the difficult times of the pandemic.
The “stop in the road” will continue in 2024. And its final point when the season comes to an end. Back in October in Valencia.
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