Morante de la Puebla will be out of his imminent commitments this Friday in Valencia and next Sunday in Santander, in addition to his second afternoon in the Cuatro Caminos arena, as he has not recovered from the injury he suffered from being caught in Vilafranca de Xira (Portugal) and which was aggravated by precipitating his reappearance in Pamplona on July 11.
Morante then went directly from the plaza to the University Hospital to perform various tests. Since then, his wrist has been immobilized with “a triangular fibrocartilage tear and the scaphosemilunar ligament has also been affected.” Long story short, some kind of sprained wrist. After listening to five different professionals and trying to speed up recovery in intensive physiotherapy sessions after removing the splint, it has been impossible: “Imagine the anger,” says his attorney Pedro J. Marques, who sets the goal of his reappearance in Azpeitia.
The company Nautalia Espacios 360, which governs the fate of the Valencia bullring, has already announced the substitute for the teacher from Puebla. It will be Tomás Rufo, who at the last Fallas fair ended his appearance with an ear. Therefore, the poster for the first bullfight of the July fair, also pierced by the loss of José María Manzanares, replaced by Román, is as follows: Juan Pedro Domecq’s bull for El Juli, Román and Tomás Rufo.
In Santander, the first cartel was made up of Morante de la Puebla, El Juli and Tomás Rufo with a bullfight by Domingo Hernández. But it is that there was a second date, July 24, in which he shared an afternoon with Diego Urdiales and Daniel Luque with bulls from Galache. The unstitching is a full-blown tear.