This Tuesday the happiness of Manuel Diaz El Cordobes54 years old, after divulging how the first meeting with his father, also a bullfighter, took place Manuel Benitez, who is already 86 years old, and everything he has felt when fulfilling his dreams has generated rivers of ink. She has also wanted to talk about her sister’s feelings, Mari Angeles Benitez Raigon, 53 years old, also the daughter of the emblematic right-hander, who obtained paternal recognition in 2004 with a process similar to that experienced by Díaz. She could not attend the anniversary of the title of Califa del Toreo de Benítez, an event in which the filial meeting between her father and her brother took place, but she was invited, of course: “Of course I would like to meet my brother”, she has recognized.
Mari Ángeles is happy with the news: “Very happy. And above all, my father is very well and the truth is that when things are, they have to be. All this has caught me with my head on something else, but Yes, I have lived it with great happiness”, he explains in an interview published by Week.
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He has not been able to attend the act in which the 20th anniversary of the recognition of his father, the right-handed Manuel Benítez El Cordobés, as Califa del Toreo, was celebrated, but he wanted her to be there, so that the three of them could get together; the new son of her recognized of her, the daughter of her and him. He has experienced it from a distance: “I am in Barcelona. Listening to Manuel, I felt very identified with everything he said. It has happened to me and I really liked how he spoke. I saw a lot of truth in his words and I felt all the time very identified with all the things he told. His story is very similar to mine, “he explains.
Yes, the story is quite similar. She also filed a paternity suit against her father, Manuel Benítez, which she won in 2004. Although the court ruled in her favor, it took her “more than a year” to take her last name. On her day, Mari Ángeles assured that the only thing she was looking for was the love of her father. “I have never spoken ill of him, never. I always told the truth. Circumstances led me to sue him, as Manuel did, but that’s where it all ended. I have a relationship with him… and that’s what matters to me,” he later confirms. of the years.
Logically, the appropriate question is what relationship do you expect to have with your “new brother” and if you want to meet him: “Yes, of course I do. I have no problem. In fact, my father invites me to the event of the twentieth anniversary of his proclamation like Califa del Toreo. He wanted me to be there, but I didn’t know that Manuel was also going. In the end, with my mother, I had to come to Barcelona and I was surprised. I had no idea! But he wanted me to be there, with him I have a very good relationship, even if we don’t appear in the press and even if we don’t expose it,” he says.
She says that she liked everything that Manuel Díaz has said and that she feels totally identified. “They are very similar experiences. When I listened to him, he said:” Damn!, he is telling the same thing that happened to me, right? “But I loved it, of course I did!”, She confirms happily.
He has had to miss this very special moment for his father and brother because his mother is sick: “Now it is my priority. She has also lived it very well. That things take longer to arrive? Well, well… The important thing is that arrive”, says who did not meet his father in person until 2017, when they finally met.
He tells without giving it too much importance that he maintains an excellent and fluid relationship with him. “I called my father to tell him: ‘Dad, I’ve seen it. How beautiful!’ I also spoke with his partner, with MariÁngeles. And I have a very good relationship with them. Is very good. We have a great relationship.”
Thanks to this communication, he has been able to explain how the octogenarian right-hander from Córdoba is taking all this. “Well! He is very happy, very happy and very calm. Now he is very well, of course he is!”