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Octavio Milego
Octavio Augusto Milego Díaz (17 April 1893 – 24 December 1982) was a Spanish Referee (association football), referee and sports leader who served as the Valencia CF#Presidents, 1st president of Valencia CF between 1919 and 1922. Sporting career Early career Born in Toledo, Spain, Toledo on 17 April 1893, Octavio Augusto Milego lived in Valencia from age five. He was introduced to the sport of football during the Regional Exhibition that took place in Valencia between 22 May and 31 July 1909, which included the first major football tournament in the city, contested by the likes of FC Barcelona, Real Sociedad Gimnástica Española, ''Sociedad Gimnástica'', and ''Club Valencia''. After the exhibition, the 16-year-old began playing this sport, which was embraced by some local clubs, such as Gimnástico FC, Gimnástico and Levante UD, Levante, and a few years later, he founded the ''Club Deportivo Español'', where he played as a Forward (association football), forward. This club wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toledo, Spain
Toledo ( ; ) is a city and Municipalities of Spain, municipality of Spain, the capital of the province of Toledo and the ''de jure'' seat of the government and parliament of the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha. Toledo is primarily located on the right (north) bank of the Tagus in central Iberian Peninsula, Iberia, nestled in a bend of the river. Built on a previous Carpetanian settlement, Toledo developed into an important Roman city of Hispania, later becoming the capital (''civitas regia'') of the Visigothic Kingdom and seat of a Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toledo, powerful archdiocese. Often unsubmissive to Emirate of Córdoba, Umayyad central rule during the Islamic period, Toledo (طليطلة) nonetheless acquired a status as a major cultural centre (promoting productive cultural exchanges between the Ummah and the Latin Christendom), which still retained after the Fitna of al-Andalus, collapse of the caliphate and the crea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
