119 years of Atletico Madrid

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On the evening of April 25-26, 1903, a group of Basque students from the school of Mining Engineering at number 25, currently 21, on the street Cross from Madrid. The idea is to establish a football society in the capital Spain. An idea that came out after cup that he athletic club won the Madrid Football Club. Ramón de Arancibia y Lebario, the brothers Ignacio and Ricardo de Gortázar and Manso de Velasco, and Manuel de Goyarrola y Aldecoa, form the Athletic Club of Madrid included Enrique Allende as the first president.

The first kit is the same as Blackburn Roversyung suot nung time na yun yung athletic club sa Bilbao. The shirt is blue and white with vertical stripes and the pants are black or white.

The first official meeting

The first game in the history of Atletico Madrid It was held on May 2 with the first 25 members to determine which team should be the starting team. The meeting was held in the first field of colchoneros in the stream Menendez Pelayo Avenuenext to the Park of Retirementwithin Pigeon Shooting Field.

Independence

It started as a subsidiary of athletic club until February 20, 1907, when the Athletic Club of Madrid is registered in the Register of Associations, which has acquired its own legal personality and is distinct from athletic club. Despite this, the close relationship between the two continued. Even Athletic has summoned interesting players from the capital team on various occasions. Something that ended in 1912 when his philosophy was born that only Biscayan footballers could play on his team.

The red and white shirt

By the end of 1909, John Elorduy, one of the players from Athletic Madrid, traveled to England, to give the two teams blue and white shirts for Blackburn Rovers Football Club. Unable to find them, he chose to buy 50 red-and-white jerseys from Southampton Football Club English. A new kit began to be used on January 22, 1911, which resulted in the name “colchoneros”, due to the uniformity of the mattress covers at the time.

the winners

These are some of the first steps in the history of a Atletico Madrid which in the first 119 years of its history has become one of the most powerful clubs in the Spain and of Europe. At the national level he won 11 Suspenders10 King’s Cups and two extra cup of Spain. Meanwhile in Europe has covered three European Leaguethree European Super Cupsa European Cup Winners Cup and one Intercontinental Cup.

All this in 43,465 days of passion, feeling and pride for red and white colors.

Source: La Verdad

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