Mario Giralt Iduate (1882 – Unknown) was a Cuban-born Spanish

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who played as a forward for Madrid FC. He was a member of some of the oldest football entities in Spain, such as Sky Football, Madrid Football Club and the Club Deportivo Español, being a founding member of the first two together with his older brothers

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and Armando, who both had memorable careers.

Biography

Mario was born in

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, in

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, when the country was under the sovereignty of the

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. They moved to

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when he and his brothers were still young. In Madrid, he was part of the Sky Foot-ball club, the first club that existed in the capital, however, in 1900, a conflict between Sky Football members caused some of them to leave (including the Giralts) and create a new club, Madrid Football Club, currently known as

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, with the official creation of the club being held on 6 March 1902 in the back room of Al Capricho, a meeting in which the Giralts were present, and they become members of the first Board of Directors of Madrid FC presided by Juan Padrós. He then become one of the first footballers of the newly formed Madrid FC, playing as a forward. Mario was part of the historic Madrid team; which also included Arthur Johnson,

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, Federico Revuelto,

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and his two brothers, José and Armando; that played in the first-ever

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, playing alongside his two brothers in the

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, where they were beaten 2–3 by Athletic Club. Following a conflict within the white club that caused the departure of several of its founding members, among whom the Giralt brothers and

, they refounded

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, a club founded in 1901, but who had collapsed in the summer. It was in this club where the news of his sports activity was interrupted, suggesting he retired no long after joining Español de Madrid, thus hanging up his boots considerably sooner than his two younger brothers.

Honours

Club

* Centro Championship: **Champions (1): 1903–04 *

: **Runner-up (1):

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Madrid FC *

: **Runner-up (1):

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Giralt, José 1882 births Year of death missing Spanish men's footballers Men's association football forwards Real Madrid CF players Footballers from Havana Footballers from Madrid Cuban men's footballers Cuban emigrants to Spain 20th-century Cuban people

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