The narrator in El Viejo Goleador, by José Cantero Verni, is talking to a soccer player who is “old” and people did not believe in him.
La mesa no esta limpia
El hotel salio en el periódico
Mi tia encornecta el pastel
Mi madre ama el hielo
Because Velázquez had connections through his father in-law. He earned the chance to paint a portrait of the powerful Count-Duke of Olivares. The countduke told King Philip IV about Velázquez . When the king saw the completed portrait he decided that no one else would paint him and appointed Velázquez one of his court painters.
