Fifty-four years the right-hander has had to wait to fulfill his dream: to hug his biological father. She has achieved it this Tuesday and has shared the image of the moment on social networks: “The photo of my life”, has written next to the snapshot. In it, a smiling Manuel Benitez surrounds his son Manuel Diazby the neck while he lets himself be loved.
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The highly anticipated moment has not been a surprise, since both Díaz and Benítez have been giving clues in recent months that the reunion was imminent. “Thank God, I am going to fulfill my dream. You all know that my dream is to be in front of the person I most admire, love the most and who has meant everything in my life, who is my father. I am here right now for him , for which I am who I am. I have to thank him for everything I am,” Virginia Troconis’s husband said a year ago. Last week, it was Benítez who warned: “There has been a rapprochement and it is going to come to light right now. Normal, because look, between fathers and children, between mothers and children, things happen, but we are going to forgive this and We are going to give each other a hug. We are human and they are things that happen”.
Virginia Troconis’s husband is the result of the relationship between Manuel Benítez El Cordobés and Dolores Díaz. He was born in 1968 but his father did not want to take charge and denied it even when, years later, the scion jumped into the ring to follow in the professional footsteps of the man who popularized the ‘leap of the frog’, seeking his love and recognition. Finally, El Cordobés Jr. claimed paternity through the courts, “to do justice to my mother”, and obtained a favorable sentence in 2016: “It is not the happiest day, but it is the most peaceful day of my life. I am a man that having a father of smoke, he will get his children to have a real grandfather. I have always known who I am and now he knows it too, “he said then. A fight that has lasted a lifetime but ends with a smile, a hug and a happy ending.