El Rafi

Raphaël Raucoule 'El Rafi', was born in Nîmes in 1999, where he started at the Bullfighting School at age 10. He has left two occasions on shoulders the Gate of the Consuls of the French Colosseum, with and without horses.

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Bullfighter El Rafi

Raphaël Raucoule

Date of birth: September 3, 1999 in Nîmes, France.

Debut in public: in October 2013 in Alba de Tormes, Salamanca. He cut two ears to a calf of Montalvo.

Debut without horses: in September 2015 in Arles, France.

Debut with horses: April 1, 2018 in Arles, France.

Debut in Las Ventas: September 27, 2019 at the Autumn Fair; next to Tomás Rufo and Fernando Plaza, with steers of Fuente Ymbro.

He started at the Nîmes School and then joined the French Bullfighting Center.

In 2015 he fought seven calves and cut eight ears and, after debuting without horses, in 2016 he bullfights 18 bullfights, a festival and a pocket, cutting 28 ears and two tails.

In 2018 he won the Ciudad Rodrigo Bag, before debuting with horses. Torea nine novillaads and cut nine ears and go around the ring.

2019; Best Novillero of the July Fair of Valencia.