 Sánchez took a job in Veracruz, but he could not forget having played at bullfighting in the sandy ground near the Torre del Oro in Seville; he made his debut in the ring as a banderillero in Morelia in 1910.Back in Spain, he appeared in Madrid in September 1913, and on 21 June 1914 in his native Seville.He received a grave goring, which broke his femur.