In 2012, the social networks bypassed the touching story of Torero, who had enough one glance at the bull to tie with Corrida and become her fundamental enemy. We checked whether it really was.

Here is the text that in 2012 distributed For all social networks:

“This incredible photo marks the end of the career of Matador Alvaro Munero. He fell in repentance in the middle of the battle, when he realized that the beast did not want to fight him. In the future, this Matador became an avid opponent of the Bykov battle. (In the photo of the bull, the bull, as it were, says the Picadors injured me, but I don’t want to fight with you, I don’t want to, even when your comrades wounded me so much, although I did not do anything bad.) Munero tells me about that fight: “And suddenly I looked at the bull. He stood in front of me and looked at me. He just stood and looked, not making an innocence, which is all the animals, what kind of animals, what kind of animals, what kind of animals, what kind of animals are all like that. They look at me with a prayer for help. It was like a cry of justice, and somewhere deep inside me, I realized that we are talking in prayer to God: I do not want to fight with you, because I did not have anything bad for you, if you want it, but I do not want to fight with you. My eyes, I felt the worst shit on the ground and interrupted the battle.

The text was decorated with an eloquent photograph: on it, Matador sits and cries, and the bull approached him and looked sympathetically. Of course, a similar plot from real life has moved many users. History became a hit, and not only in the Russian -language segment of social networks - it was actively distributed In English and other languages.

After such a boat, people, of course, became interested in the personality of a sentimental Matadora. After all, a similar plot earned at least a feature film.

As it turned out, a Matador named Alvaro Muner (precisely with this end of the surname) really existed. Born far from Spain, in Colombian Medelin, he fell in love with bulls at four years old, and already at the age of 12 he decided to become a threesh. Having barely celebrated the age of majority, Muner, who by that time had already achieved the popularity of the house, decided to go beyond the ocean, to the homeland of Corrida. Everything went fine: from spring to autumn 1984, he spent 22 successful battle. However, on September 22, in the arena called “Muner” (evil irony), the bull hooked him by the left leg, raised and threw it to the ground, as a result of which the 18-year-old guy broke the fifth vertebra and received the paralysis of the limbs. Alvaro spent the next five years of his life on learning to move his hands and move in a stroller. He stopped feeling his legs forever.

It was this tragedy that made Muner finally reconsider his views on Corrida. Yes, indeed, since then he has become a defender of animal rights and is actively fighting Corrida, talking about this in each interview. In response, fans of the Bulls of the Bykov consider him a traitor. And with our smaller Brothers, the executor has not parted since then:

In the photograph that accompanied the viral plot, it is not a muner at all. Most likely, in the frame we see the famous Spanish Toreador Francisco Havier Sanchez Vara. This version of the AFP portal Confirmed Both the former manager of Toreador Cesar Sanchez de Castro, and the photographer of Corrida Veronika Dominges, and Alvaro Muner himself.

And the pose in which the Matador is in the picture is an example of the so -called Desplante - A reception in which a person takes a deliberately vulnerable, careless position, thereby showing his superiority over the bull. This photo demonstrates not at all repentance.

Well, the key quotes of “recognition” by Matadora, apparently, were taken from the article by the newspaper El PAS of July 30, 1995, and its author borrowed them from the story "Inhuman race" Spanish writer Antonio Gala.

Indeed, the former Matador Alvaro Muner is not only the opponent of Corrida, but also A convinced vegetarian, however, this does not change the essence of the matter: the popular story is mostly fictitious.