|
José María Acha
José María Acha Larrea (4 September 1889 – 14 May 1929) was a Spanish Association football, footballer who played as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for RCD Espanyol between 1901 and 1903. He went to became a lawyer and a sports leader, playing a crucial role in the creation of the La Liga, Spanish league in the late 1920s. Playing career José María Acha was born on 4 September 1889 in Getxo, but it was in Barcelona where he began to play football at RCD Espanyol, Club Español in late 1901, at the age of 12. After a first season with many changes in goal, Acha arrived at the club to provide stability under the posts because despite his tender age and small stature, he was quick and agile. Together with Ángel Ponz, Enrique Montells, Joaquim Carril, and club founder Ángel Rodríguez (footballer, born 1879), Ángel Rodríguez, he helped Espanyol win its very first title, the 1902–03 Copa Macaya, playing in a total of five matches. On 17 May 1903, Acha was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Las Arenas
Areeta (''Las Arenas'' in Spanish) is a neighbourhood of Getxo (Biscay, Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country, Spain). It is an affluent residential area that was built over the sands of a beach where the Gobela Creek died into a diffuse delta at the mouth of the Estuary of Bilbao in the early 20th century. It is connected to Portugalete at the other side of the firth by the ''Vizcaya Bridge'' transporter bridge and offers a marina, a small beach that can unfortunately be polluted, and a monument to Evaristo de Churruca y Brunet, Evaristo Churruca, who planned and directed the channelization of the estuary. The ''Vizcaya Bridge'' is now a tourist attraction with visitors able to go by lift to the top of the bridge (from where it was originally operated). Neighbourhoods It can be divided in three neighbourhoods: *Central Areeta, around the Main Street, location of many shops, restaurants and bars. *Santa Ana, a quiet residential area, named after the small church l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arenas Club De Getxo
Arenas Club de Getxo is a Spanish football club based in the town of Getxo, near Bilbao, in the autonomous community of Basque Country. Founded in 1909, it currently plays in , holding home games at Campo Municipal de Gobela, with a 2,000-seat capacity. They were winners of the 1919 Copa del Rey, beating FC Barcelona 5–2. It was among the pioneering clubs of Spanish football, and in 1928 was a founding member of La Liga, alongside neighbouring Athletic Bilbao, Real Sociedad and Real Unión. Only Real Unión has remained a consistent rival since then due to both of their downfalls from the top flight. History Origins of local football The area of Greater Bilbao was deeply connected to Britain due to its iron ore mines and industry. Don Manuel, a priest in the local parish of the Las Arenas neighborhood, would gift balls to local children during Catechism lessons. Some of these boys would go on to study in England and learn about the local game of football. After thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1889 Births
Events January * January 1 ** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada. ** Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in the Dakotas. * January 4 – An Act to Regulate Appointments in the Marine Hospital Service of the United States is signed by President Grover Cleveland. It establishes a Commissioned Corps of officers, as a predecessor to the modern-day U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. * January 8 – Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine in the United States. * January 15 – The Coca-Cola Company is originally incorporated as the Pemberton Medicine Company in Atlanta, Georgia. * January 22 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C. * January 30 – Mayerling incident: Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, and his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera commit a double suicide (or a murder-suicide) at the Mayerling hun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1902–03 Catalan Football Championship
The 1902–03 Catalan Football Championship was the 3rd staging of the Catalan football championship, Championship of Catalonia. This season was peculiar because it comprised two different competitions held the same year. Due to disagreements between the reigning champion of the tournament, FC Barcelona, and some of the clubs invited, in 1902–03 two parallel competitions were held: an "official", the Copa Macaya organized by Hispania Athletic Club, Hispania AC and an "unofficial", the #Copa Barcelona, Copa Barcelona organized by FC Barcelona. Both are currently recognized as official by the Royal Spanish Football Federation, RFEF. Copa Macaya Summary The third and last edition of the Macaya Cup was to be contested by 5 teams: Club Espanyol, Hispania Athletic Club, Hispania AC, FC Barcelona, Club Universitari and FC Internacional. The early resignations of Barcelona and Universitari were a severe blow to the competition, which turned it into a simple triangular tournament. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copa Macaya
The Hispania Athletic Club Tournament–Alfonso Macaya Cup, popularly known as the Copa Macaya, was a Association football, football competition contested by clubs from Catalonia which ran from 1900 until 1903, disappearing at the same time of its organizers, Hispania Athletic Club, Hispania AC, who won the first edition in 1901. Initially, the championship was open to all Spanish clubs, thus some historians consider this cup to be the first national championship in Spain, as well as the predecessor and forerunner for the Catalan football championship which began in 1903. Until that point, the teams founded at the end of 1899 and during 1900 had been limited to playing Exhibition game, friendly games only. It was one of the first football championships played on the Iberian Peninsula, after 1894 Taça D. Carlos I, Taça D. Carlos I in Portugal (1894) and the Merchants Cup in Gibraltar (1895). It was named in honor of the donator of the trophy, Alfonso Macaya, ideologue and promoter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1929 Spain V England Football Match
On 15 May 1929 at the Estadio Metropolitano de Madrid, Estadio Metropolitano in Madrid, the home stadium of Atlético Madrid, England national football team, England's national team were defeated 4–3 by Spain national football team, Spain in a Exhibition game, friendly international association football, football match. As a result, Spain became the first team from Continental Europe to defeat England, and doing so in the first meeting between the two countries. Such was the prestige of the match for the Spanish, it was the first ever to be publicly Radio broadcasting, broadcast via radio. The match was refereed by Belgian official John Langenus, believed to be the top referee in the world at the time. The Home Nations had popularised the sport, and England were widely viewed as the greatest team in the world in the early 20th century. Their first matches against continental European sides resulted in high-scoring victories, but after World War I the gap in quality eventually na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bilbao
Bilbao is a city in northern Spain, the largest city in the Provinces of Spain, province of Biscay and in the Basque Country (greater region), Basque Country as a whole. It is also the largest city proper in northern Spain. Bilbao is the List of cities in Spain by population, tenth largest city in Spain, with a population of more than 347,000 as of 2023. The Bilbao metropolitan area has 1,037,847 inhabitants,Proyecto Audes making it the most populous metropolitan area in northern Spain. The Comarcas of the Basque Country, comarca of Greater Bilbao is the fifth-largest urban area in Spain. Bilbao is also the main urban area in what is defined as the Basque Country (greater region), Greater Basque region. Bilbao is located in the north-central part of Spain, some south of the Bay of Biscay, where the economic s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1927–28 Spanish Football League
The 1927–28 Spanish Football League was the first attempt to organize a league championship in Spain in the 1927–28 Spanish season. However, numerous discrepancies arose in its organization and within the teams that participated, which is why it was divided into two competitions, with neither of which being concluded, called ''Torneo de Campeones'' and ''Liga Profesional de Clubs de Football'' or ''Liga Máxima''. At the time the competition stopped, its first classified teams were FC Barcelona and Racing de Santander, respectively. The ''Torneo de Campeones'' was made up of the so-called "maximalist", the most influential clubs that had been winners of the Spanish Regional Championships and the Copa del Rey; while the ''Liga Máxima'', the "minimalist", made up of the rest of the clubs that advocated free competition at the professionalized national level. However, as they evolved, these meanings reversed among themselves, with the reports and chronicles referring to the "maxima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exhibition Game
An exhibition game (also known as a friendly, scrimmage, demonstration, training match, pre-season game, warmup match, or preparation match, depending at least in part on the sport) is a sporting event whose prize money and impact on the player's or the team's rankings is either zero or otherwise greatly reduced. Exhibition games often serve as "warm-up matches", particularly in many team sports where these games help coaches and managers select and condition players, before the competitive matches of a league season or tournament. If the players usually play in different teams in other leagues, exhibition games offer an opportunity for the players to learn to work with each other. The games can be held between separate teams or between parts of the same team. An exhibition game may also be used to settle a challenge, to provide professional entertainment, to promote the sport, to commemorate an anniversary or a famous player, or to raise money for charities. Several sports le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Real Madrid CF
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (), commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional Football club (association football), football club based in Madrid. The club competes in La Liga, the top tier of Spanish football league system, Spanish football. Founded in 1902 as Madrid Football Club, the club has traditionally worn a white home kit since its inception. The Title of honour, honorific title 'Real' is Spanish for "Royal" and was bestowed to the club by Alfonso XIII, King Alfonso XIII in 1920 along with the crown in the club crest. Real Madrid have played their home matches in the 78,297-capacity Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid since 1947. Unlike most European sporting clubs, Real Madrid's members (''socios'') have owned and operated the club throughout its history. The official Madrid anthem is the "Hala Madrid y nada más", written by RedOne and Manuel Jabois. The club is one of the most widel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Gandarias
José Gandarias Urquijo (20 March 1904 – 2 February 1979) was a Spanish Association football, footballer who played for Arenas Club de Getxo before becoming its president in the late 1920s. Under his presidency, the team was the 1927 Copa del Rey runners-up, but he is best known for being the youngest-ever first-team player in the history of Real Madrid, which he achieved in a friendly in 1916, when he was still a child of 12. Apart from football, he also practiced regattas, becoming champion of several competitions and founding the . He had a stable of racehorses and was the person who brought Claudio Carudel to Spain. He also dedicated himself to motorcycling and golf. Early and personal life Gandarias was born on 20 March 1904 in Madrid, as the son of Juan Tomás Gandarias, Juan Tomás Gandarias y Durañona, a businessman from Biscay (1870–1940), and Cecilia Urquijo y Ussía, daughter of the Marquess of Urquijo. He was the third of seven children, five sons and two daught ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Lazúrtegui
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic in Portugal, but common in Brazil. Origins The Germanic name (and its variants) is usually said to be composed of the words for "fame" () and "warrior" () and hence may be translated to ''famous warrior'' or "famous in battle". According to Dutch onomatologists however, it is more likely that the first stem was , meaning fame, which would give the meaning 'warrior for the gods' (or: 'warrior who captured stability') for the full name.J. van der Schaar, ''Woordenboek van voornamen'' (Prisma Voornamenboek), 4e druk 1990; see also thLodewijs in the Dutch given names database Modern forms of the name are the German name Ludwig and the Dutch form Lodewijk. and the other Iberian forms more closely resemble the French name Louis, a derivati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
