David de Mirada was one of the bullfighters most affected by the Covid-19. Within the catastrophe that the pandemic caused for the party in the specific case of Huelva, who had opened the Puerta Grande in 2019, resulted in business oblivion. Without knowing it, he retraced those that so much effort had cost him to achieve -after overcoming a very serious vertebral injury-. From being announced in the 2020 season in Valencia and Seville to sucking on the bench again after achieving glory.
This Sunday he will face the Roman Sorando bulls in Las Ventas with Calita -which confirms the alternative- and Joaquín Galdós. He doesn’t like excuses or complaints. Always discreet, waiting for his moment. “I arrive with my homework done and everything is in the hands of luck. I need to take that step forward again. God willing, things will roll,” he says hopefully at the gates of his commitment.
Last year he had a discreet passage through San Isidro with the Algarra bullfight and his previous performance dates back to 2019 when he unlocked the Puerta Grande with a great bull from Juan Pedro Domecq. “Excuses are useless to me, last year the afternoon did not turn out as expected but now I come with all the illusion. The pandemic did me a lot of damage, the posters in which I was advertised have no longer been celebrated. I believe in destiny. I think it will put me where I left off in 2020, to reap the fruits of a victory like the one I had”, explains De Miranda convinced.
That success, on the afternoon of his confirmation as an alternative alternating with El Juli and Paco Ureña, came after going through a real ordeal. A bull was about to prostrate him in a wheelchair. A year away from the ring, immersed in an endless rehabilitation. The quadruple vertebral fracture continues to leave sequelaebut De Miranda does not give it any importance: “They are the leaks that remain… Everything falls on the spine, it causes me numerous contractures and severe headaches that turn into dizziness but I feel very well, two hundred percent. I’m not complaining” he resolves quickly so as not to give rise to what he does not want to project as a bullfighter.
At the beginning of the years we learned that the businessman and rancher José Luis Pereda took over the career of his countryman David de Miranda. “We have renewed illusions thatwhich also transcends the face of the bull, the suit of lights is transparent. I am very excited about the season, we have had eight celebrations with good results and ahead of us, in addition to Madrid, we have Azpeitia, Huelva, Málaga and Bayonne (France). The objective is to leave everything well prepared for the year 2024″.