Club Taurino Milano

OFFICERS

President: Ernesto "Elio" Garberi
Vice-President: Gaetano Fortini
Secretary: Alfonso Piscopo
Treasurer: Mario Cinato
Board Members: Stefania Cimbari, Carlo Falagiani, Giorgio Lomascolo, Giuseppe Zanchini

CONTACT:

• E-mail contact: Amadeo Riva Castaneda

MEETINGS: Friday evening meetings (9pm); annual  "Cena de los Toros"; annual  "Christmas lunch"; annual general meeting with elections (February)

PUBLICATION: The club has been publishing El Coso every month since the club was founded -in 1983- some 193 issues (through April, 2001). The publication contains taurine news from Spain and France (and elsewhere), and commentary by journalists and club members.

ANNUAL AWARD: Premio a la Emoción -- presented by the club to the one generating the "most emotional detail of the feria" (different feria every year).  The award includes an invitation for two persons to visit Milan to receive the award.

2000 awarded to Josè Pacheco "El Califa" (for the lidia given to the 3rd.bull of Dolores Aguirre in San Isidro) The award was bestowed "in memoriam" of our socio Juan Bienvenida. "El Califa" with his apoderado Enrique Grau visited us on Nov.11th 2000 to pick their prizes up.

1999 : Awarded to Victorino Martìn (for the bulls fought during the Semana Grande-San Sebastian). Victorino and his son Victorino came to Milan on Nov.13th.,1999.

1998 was awarded to the matador de toros José Tomás fought on August 26, 1998, during the Feria of Almeria, por la pureza de su toreo en la faena al tercer toro de "Algarra".  José Tomas has  received their award in Milan on November, 1998.

Earlier awards were present in Milan to : José Ortega Cano (Feria de Abril - Sevilla, 1991); Enrique Ponce (Las Fallas - Valencia, 1992); Michel Lagravère y "El Tiri" (Sanfermines - Pamplona, 1993); Antonio Ruíz "Espartaco" ( Feria de Agosto - Málaga, 1994); Francisco Rivera Ordóñez (Fiestas de Nuestra Señora de la Salud - Córdoba, 1995); not assigned in 1996 (Ferias y fiestas de Septiembre - Salamanca); Herederos de José Cebada Gago (Semana Grande - Bilbao, 1997).