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Gijón Sport Club
The Gijón Sport Club was a football team based in Gijón that existed between 1902 and 1916. It was the first official football club in Gijón. History Origins Gijón was introduced to football by two distinct groups: sailors from foreign ships docking at the port of ''El Musel'', who were the first to practice football in the city on the , and Gijón students returning from schools abroad, who brought their newly founded passion for football to Gijón during the summer holidays, such as José Moré, Antonio de la Riva, the Alvargonzález brothers (Romualdo Alvargonzález, Romualdo and José Luis Alvargonzález, José Luis), Demetrio Castrillón, and Luis Adaro Porcel. The latter, who had completed his studies as a mechanical engineer in Switzerland and Germany at the turn of the century, was the one who obtained the goals and equipment necessary for those first games in Gijón. In July 1901, his father, Luis Adaro Magro, a very important businessman in the mining and metallurgica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gijón
Gijón () or () is a city and municipality in north-western Spain. It is the largest city and Municipalities of Spain, municipality by population in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Asturias. It is located on the coast of the Cantabrian Sea in the Bay of Biscay, in the central-northern part of Asturias; it is approximately north-east of Oviedo, the capital of Asturias, and from Avilés. With a population of 273,744 as of 2023, Gijón is the Ranked lists of Spanish municipalities, 15th largest city in Spain. Gijón forms part of a large metropolitan area that includes twenty councils in the center of the region, structured with a dense network of roads, highways and railways and with a population of 835,053 inhabitants in 2011, making it the seventh largest in Spain. During the 20th century, Gijón developed as an industrial city in the steel and naval industries. However, due to the decline in manufacturing in these industries, in recent years Gijà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
