the bullfighter Gabriel of the House He died this Thursday in a Madrid hospital at the age of 73, after a long and complex bacterial disease, as family sources have confirmed to Efe.
Gabriel de la Casa Pazos, born in Madrid on September 2, 1948, was son of the bullfighter Emiliano de la Casa “Morenito de Talavera”, which enjoyed a good poster during the 40s of the last century.
With his brother José Luis, who ended up being his banderillero, he began to fight as a bullfighter in the early 1960s in American arenas, to the point that he debuted with picadores in Quito (Ecuador) in 1964, even before doing it in Spain.
De la Casa took the alternative on August 9, 1967 in the Plaza de Manzanares (Ciudad Real), sponsored by Manuel Bentez “El Cordobs” and before Montalvo bullsand he did not confirm it in Madrid until two years later at the San Isidro fair, hand in hand with Serranito and in the presence of Tinn.
A bullfighter with elegant manners and a good connoisseur of the trade, on the other hand, he suffered numerous and repeated mishaps, without the sequels that polio left on one of his legs being enough to condition him. so many gorings and injuries.
After some first seasons with good numbers, his career in European arenas began to decline somewhat, so he focused his sights on bullfighting America, on which he based most of his performances until the 1980s, adding there almost three hundred pasellos, especially in Ecuador and Venezuela.
Once he retired from the profession – his last parade of lights took place on September 23, 1995 in the town of Huete in Cuenca – Gabriel de la Casa devoted himself to representation of Spanish companies in American markets and to work as a proxy for bullfighters, work that he finally carried out with the Ecuadorian Guillermo Albn.
In that field he achieved one of his great milestones by organize the first bullfight in history in Chinaspecifically, in the city of Shanghai.
The event, for which a stadium with capacity for 7,000 spectators was prepared, took place on October 23, 2004, with bulls from the Mexican currency of La Soledad – the “mad cow” epidemic. prevented the export of Spanish cattle-, who were faced by the Spanish bullfighters José Ignacio Ramos and Ivan García and their representative Guillermo Albn
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