Manuel Caceres Artesero ( Spanish Manuel Cáceres Artesero ; January 15, 1949 , San Carlos del Valle , Spain ), better known as Manolo or Manolo drummer ( Spanish Manolo "el del Bombo" ) - a fan of the Valencia football club and the Spanish national football team .
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| Date of Birth | January 15, 1949 (70 years) |
| Place of Birth | San Carlos del Valle |
| Allegiance |  Spain |
| Occupation | football fan businessman |
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Biography
Manolo was born in the small town of San Carlos del Valle in the province of Ciudad Real in southern Spain. As a child, he did not play football for long in the school of a local football team, but did not receive further continuation of professional sports. When Manolo was 5 years old, his family moved to Huesca (in Aragon ). There, Manolo first began to go to football, becoming a fan of “ Zaragoza ” (Zaragoza - the center of the autonomous community of Aragon).
Once, Manolo came up with an interesting idea - to take a drum with her to the stadium. Soon the idea grew into a passion: at every Zaragoza home game, Manolo appeared with a drum, actively beating off the rhythm. It was then that he received the nickname "Manolo-drummer."
Manolo in Valencia
Over time, the club sympathies of Manolo changed: now he is a fan of Valencia - a team from the city where Manolo moved in 1982. Gradually, Manolo became a Valencia celebrity and one of the symbols of the eponymous football club. For 25 years, he did not miss a single home game of "bats", but in 2006, after a quarrel with the leadership of the club, "el del Bombo" stopped visiting "Mestal" .
In Valencia, Manolo has its own bar, which is not far from Mestalla. In the interior of the institution used a lot of football paraphernalia, on the walls hung pictures of Manolo with the football team of Spain and even King Juan Carlos I.
Manolo and the Spanish national team
Over the past 30 years, Manolo almost never missed the games of the Spanish national team, not excluding friendly matches. The only reason that could prevent him from attending the match of the “red fury” is health problems, as it happened, for example, with the game Spain - Paraguay at the 2010 World Cup [1] .
With his team, Manolo visited ten world championships ; according to the Spaniard himself, he would like to visit 12 world championships .
After the world football championships in Russia, Manolo said that he would no longer go to matches of the Spanish national team to other countries, as he was not allowed to go to the stadiums in Kazan and Kaliningrad. [2] .
Interesting Facts
- At the Manolo stadium, you can recognize the Spanish national team shirt with the number 12, the black Basque beret and the big drum, on one side of which is the coat of arms of the Spanish Football Federation and the inscription “Spain Manolo Drummer” ( El Bombo de España MANOLO ), and on the other - “ Sport - yes, violence - no ”( DEPORTE SI, VIOLENCIA NO ).
- In 1987, his wife left Manolo, unable to withstand his lifestyle. Since then, the great fan remains a bachelor [3] .
- Manolo changes the drum after every big tournament - the World Championship or the European Championship .
- Once, when Manolo was still a young man, he was in the hospital and was preparing for an operation on the meniscus . It so happened that on the day of the operation the match of the championship of Spain between Zaragoza and Valencia was to take place. Manolo persuaded the driver of the ambulance, and he drove him to the " La Romareda ". Manolo entered the stadium on a gurney. After the end of the game, the audience gave him a standing ovation.
- At the beginning of the group stage of the World Cup in South Africa, Manolo predicted the victory of the Spaniards on the Mundiale and future rivals of the “fury” at all stages of the playoffs. Guessing in the case of the 1/8 and 1/4 finals, Manolo made a mistake with the participants of one second and final [4] .