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Bull 9, Welshman 0 in bizarre Mexican soccer match

A Welsh businessman and football fanatic was tricked into what he thought was a kick-around in a Mexican bullring ahead of the main event and found himself instead confronting a huge bull, the Times reported yesterday.

Ieuan Llewellyn, 41, answered the call from the English-speaking compere at the bullring in Cancun for volunteers to play football as a warm-up event.

A set of goalposts, helmets and a ball were provided for the six volunteers, but then a large black bull was introduced into the ring.

"The compere said we would be playing a game of soccer and the organizers brought out two small-sized goal nets. Then he said, `watch out for the ball' but he obviously meant `bull,'" Llewellyn told the Times.

"We started having a kick-about but then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw this huge bull," he said.

The 1,500 crowd at the Plaza de Toros cheered and clapped as the bull charged at Llewellyn and tossed him into the air. He flew through the air nine times and needed medical treatment afterwards.

"The crowd thought it was great and kept on cheering. I tried to get away but I just couldn't run any further, so I tried to stand up to it [the bull] but it just catapulted me into the air.

"It gored me, tossed me and kicked me, but everybody thought it was a big laugh. In the end a matador came out and ushered it back into its pen," he said.
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