Updated Sunday, April 7, 2024 – 14:33
The bullfighter and businessman Juan Carlos Beca Belmonte died this Saturday in a Madrid clinic at the age of 76. victim of a long illness that he has not been able to overcome as sources very close to the family have confirmed to EFE.
Belmonte Scholarship, which I was born in Sanlcar de BarramedaHe was the grandson of the legendary Trian bullfighter Juan Belmonte and was married to Beln Ordez, daughter of the Rondeo bullfighter Antonio Ordez, which gave him a certain media fame in the mid-70s of the last century.
The deceased bullfighter, overcoming family resistance, managed to take up bullfighting until appearing in public in the Alicante bullring of Ondara on July 10, 1966. The debut with picadors would come the following year, on March 10, in the Plaza de Valencia alternating with Fernando Tortosa and Adolfo Rojas in the Branco Nuncio bullfight.
Without continuity solution, heThe alternative occurred in Santander on August 26, 1968. The godfather of the ceremony will be his future father-in-law, Antonio Ordez, who gave him a bull from Urquijo in the presence of Miguel Mateo ‘Migueln’.
Less than a year later, On May 14, 1969, he confirmed his doctorate in Las Ventas at the hands of Antoete with Jos Fuentes as a witness in the fight of a Moreno Yange bullfight.
His career in the arenas was declining and its withdrawalwithout being announced, was a fact in the mid-70s, marrying Belén Ordez at the beginning of 1975, which gave him added public notoriety completed with the marriage of Carmen Ordez, Belén’s sister, with the right-handed Francisco Rivera ‘Paquirri’maximum figure of the moment until the beginning of the 80s.
These marital ties made him strengthen his relationship with Paquirri, of whom he was a trusted man in the 1984 season. the last of the life of the Barbate right-hander whom he accompanied on the tragic afternoon in Pozoblanco in which he was mortally wounded by the bull ‘Avispado’ of the iron of Sayalero and Bandrás in a day that remains engraved in the domestic memory of an entire generation.
Beca Belmonte, who descended on her paternal side from a family linked to the cultivation of rice in the old Guadalquivir marshes, rebuilt her life after divorcing Belén Ordez, orienting her life towards business work. without ever separating from the world of bullfighting although I always avoid any public notoriety.
exercise as manager at the Las Ventas bullring, where he landed with the UTE of Fidel San Romn, José Antonio Chopera and Ramn Caldern, with whose hand he would make the leap to the Bernabe during his term in the presidency. He was also a businessman of El Puerto de Santa María.
