Manuel Benítez Pérez, born 4 May 1936 (probable date) in Palma del Río near Córdoba is known as El Cordobés ("The Cordobese" - "The Cordovan"), the famous matador of the 1960s, who brought to the bullring an unorthodox acrobatic and theatrical style. Born into abject poverty, reared in an orphanage; Benítez lived in a village near Córdoba, he was a construction-worker and petty criminal who dreamed of being a bullfighter at 23..
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