Cayetano Rivera Ordóñez will say goodbye to the arena next season. It will coincide with the hundred years of the Ordóñez dynasty, as we reported a few weeks ago in ABC’s ‘At 5 p.m.’ newsletter. The bullfighter himself confirmed it tonight with an emotional announcement on social networks: «Next year is a very special year for me. One hundred years have passed since my great-grandfather Cayetano Ordóñez began my dynasty. I feel like it’s time to say goodbye,” he says.
In addition to tying in with Niño de la Palma’s century of alternative (he took it in Seville in 1925), the farewell coincides with the two decades of his debut in Ronda (March 2005), with his “twenty years since I started in the world of the bull. He says that not everything has been pretty, but during this time I have tried to transmit qualities that my profession reflects such as courage, effort, discipline, solidarity…”
As the message passes – titled ‘One last dance‘-, Cayetano becomes more excited: “I wanted to share this news with you so that we can live together, with even more emotion if possible, what without a doubt for me is the most important season of my life.” He ends this waltz with words of gratitude: «And, above all, I want to thank you. Thank you for all the support you have always given me and for your love.
The bullfighter from a century-old dynasty already told ABC in January that his retirement was “very close; “I am reaching the end of my career and I experience things differently, I want to enjoy everything, feel everything.”
Regarding whether he felt more Rivera or Ordóñez, he said: «I try to be faithful to Cayetano, to be faithful to myself. Obviously, my genes and my dynasty are there, of which I feel very proud. I remember them every day and try to honor what they were. But I always wanted to be me and that’s why I announced myself as Cayetano. They are a double-edged sword: on the one hand, the fan who has seen my father or my grandfather wants to see them and each one is different; On the other hand, it is a motivation. I cannot deny that I go to the plaza with tremendous pride in knowing about the dynasty from which I come and what each of them achieved, who were geniuses within their different styles. And yes, of course I remember. When I kneel on the ground, I remember my father, and with the packaging, my grandfather.
Paquirri’s son also commented that, “for the peace of mind of our entire family,” he would not like his son or his nephews to be bullfighters. «I hope and wish that the dynasty ends with me. It is a world that I want to transmit to my son, that he knows and values it, that he learns the good and the bad that it has, but it is not a world that I want for anyone that I love,” he pointed out, knowing all the values and disappointments of the world. bullfighting, of its glory and its blood.
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