El Cordobés

[el kawr-thaw-ves]

noun

1. Manuel Benítez Pérez, born 1936, Spanish bullfighter.

Example Sentences

In 2016 they proved that bullfighter Manuel Díaz was the son of a celebrated bullfighter of the 1960s, Manuel Benítez, nicknamed "El Cordobés".

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El Cordobés was at the bullring.

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When that sample suggested the two “El Cordobés” were father and son, the court conducted its own blood tests, confirming paternity to a 99.9% degree of certainty.

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But the elder man rejects the claim that he fathered Díaz — who himself became a bullfighter and also uses the name “El Cordobés” — after meeting Díaz’s mother, a maid, at the height of the older man’s popularity in the 1960s.

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He has five other children - one of whom, Julio, is also a bullfighter and is also known as "El Cordobes".

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