This was the ‘secret’ wedding of the bullfighter Vicente Ruiz ‘El Soro’ and Eva Rogel: white suit and an exceptional witness

Theirs has not been an easy love story but it has been a love story with a happy ending. Vicente Ruiz El Soro y Eva Rogel They became husband and wife in September 2022, as Beatriz Cortázar revealed this Monday. But to understand how destiny has pulled its strings to unite the bullfighter with his wife, we have to go back to 1984. Then they were dating and the death of Paquirri It made such an impression on El Soro that he asked her father for the hand of Eva, then 16 years old. He refused and circumstances caused them to continue on their separate paths.

Ten years ago, Vicente and Eva met again on a television show and discovered that the spark was still there. They resumed their relationship and faced together the most difficult moment of their lives: sepsis that the bullfighter suffered due to a knee replacement. The infection spread and led him to be admitted in critical condition to the ICU of the Valencia Clinical Hospital. Before entering the operating room for life or death, the couple said “I do” in the same medical center. “It was an atypical wedding, not the idea that I had, but it was a dream that he had and since he got sick it was something that he asked everyone who came in to please,” the bride said then. The wedding was officiated by Sergi Ruiz i Alonso, the mayor of Foios, the right-hander’s hometown, and was attended by his son Tito. However, the ceremony was invalidated when a head of the medical team said that Vicente was under the influence of medication. Weeks later, El Soro left the hospital with a new dream: to marry the love of his life.

They achieved it, this time, in September 2022. “It is a dream come true. Eva is an extraordinary woman, very special, who has been with me through the good and the bad. We tried to get married at the beginning of 2020 in the hospital, when I was very sick, but it couldn’t be,” he said then. The ceremony was civil, in a court in Valencia, where they reside, and with the presence of an exceptional witness: the bride’s father, the same one who denied Soro his daughter’s hand in the late 80s. He was wearing dark suit, she an elegant white suit. “They are very happy, you don’t know how they love each other”Beatriz Cortázar told Antena 3 this Monday.