Manolo el del Bombo
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Manuel Cáceres Artesero (15 January 1949 – 1 May 2025), better known as Manolo el del Bombo (English: Manolo the Bass Drummer), was described as one of the most famous football fans in Spain.[1]
Biography
Raised in Huesca, he was Valencia CF's and the Spain national football team's most famous supporter.[1] He was recognizable by his large beret, red number 12 jersey and bass drum, "El bombo de España" (The drum of Spain), which he would bang throughout matches.[1]
Manolo first travelled abroad to watch Spain in 1979 and was present at all of Spain's international matches from 1982 onwards.[1] On 3 July 2010, he missed his first game: Spain–Paraguay at FIFA World Cup 2010 South Africa, due to pneumonia.[2]
At the 1982 World Cup in Spain, he hitchhiked 15,800 kilometers in order to follow his team and to show that nobody else paid his travel expenses.[3]
He owned the bar Tu Museo Deportivo next to the Estadio Mestalla, which doubled as a sports museum.[4] It was closed in 2011.[5]
Manolo was not allowed to bring his bass drum to the FIFA World Cup 2018 matches in Russia,[6] so he decided to no longer travel abroad with the drum.[7]
Manolo died from respiratory problems in Villareal, on 1 May 2025, at the age of 76.[8] His family suspects that the major blackout that hit the country on 28 April may have affected him directly.[9]
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