The world of bullfighting has been part of Gonzalo Caballero’s life since he made his debut without picadors in Seville in September 2010. It was not until 2012 that he went to the San Isidro Fair in Madrid, and 2015 that he took the alternative in Las Ventas. Half a life dedicated to bullfighting, which comes from a vocation and not from family, being the only matador in his family tree.

“One does not stand in front of a bull for money, it is a vocational profession,” he expressed in an interview for the magazine Diez Minutos. However, he believes that this passion should not continue in his family. “I would love to form one with many children, but who are not bullfighters,” he said. Even so, she would like them to “have the values ??of a bullfighter.”

And the fact is that, although he feels happy in the arena, he has not had a good time with some fuck that has made him see death up close. It was in 2019 when the bullfighter was gored in Las Ventas that kept him dead for “nine minutes.” After that moment, he had to spend two weeks in the ICU to survive. Something that he, he claims, made him consider “abandoning.”

However, he is not willing to let this fear overcome him, so he has learned to “live” with it, which is “very complicated” for him. “He has a poison that when you have that fear you need it to live. That’s why being a bullfighter is so special,” he has forcefully related.

As reported in the aforementioned medium, it is this March 23 when they will meet again with a bull, but this time for a charity event. Gonzalo Caballero has been preparing for “three months” for this moment in which he is going to try to raise as much money as possible for the ‘María’s Smile’ project.

And it is María who has changed her life and has made part of her efforts focus on raising funds for the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Niño Jesús Hospital in Madrid. A little girl, with Ewing’s sarcoma, who she met at a soccer game and with whom she exchanges long telephone conversations.

This sensitivity for the cause comes after the difficult experience he lived with his father. “I lost him in a very cruel way. It is an issue that makes me very sensitive,” she confessed with pain. For this reason, he is pouring himself into María and her project. “She is a person who has come into the world to give us a message about her and everyone who meets her falls in love with her and her way of interpreting her life,” he added.

Added to his passion for bullfighting and his most supportive side is the world of football. Gonzalo Caballero has been playing this sport his entire life, even spending three years in the Real Madrid youth academy. But if there is something that has been talked about, and a lot, it is his friendship with Victoria Federica, about which he has assured that he knows nothing about his participation in The Challenge.