The Madrid autonomous football team is the regional football team for the

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. They are not affiliated with

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, because the Community of Madrid is represented internationally by the

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. The team plays only

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es.

History

Prince of Asturias Cup

In the first half of the 20th century, the

Regional Centro Football Federation In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as zones, lands or territories, are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and t ...

(which encompassed

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and the wider Castile region, and organised the

Campeonato Regional Centro The Campeonato Regional Centro (Spanish for Central Regional Championship) was an important annual association football competition for clubs based primarily in the Castile region of Spain, including the Community of Madrid, during the first half ...

for the local clubs) selected a representative team for

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, and also participated in the inter-regional

Prince of Asturias Cup The Prince of Asturias Cup (, ) was an inter-regional football competition contested by the regional selections of Spain – selections of players from clubs from the region in question, meaning that players did not need to be native to the region ...

, winning the competition on two occasions (1917 and 1918) when they were hosts. Due to incompetence of some federative leaders, the calendar of the 1917 tournament was allowed to be played on the same week as the 1917 Copa del Rey Final between

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and Arenas, something that prevented the Centro team from having the best players of Madrid FC, thus they had to sent players from the likes of

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and

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to form a team which could compete. As a result, this side included lesser known players such as Joaquín Pascual,

Ezequiel Montero Ezequiel Montero Román (22 February 1893 – 17 April 1972) was a Spanish footballer, referee and manager in Spain at the beginning of the 20th century. As a player, he helped the Madrid national team win two Prince of Asturias Cups in 1917 an ...

Sócrates Quintana Sócrates Quintana Montoto (18 December 1891 – 28 February 1984), was a Spanish artist and footballer who played as a midfielder for RS Gimnástica and Athletic Club de Madrid. He was one of the most important footballers in the amateur begin ...

José Agüero José Agüero may refer to: * José Agüero (Brazilian tennis) (born 1933), Brazilian tennis player of the 1950s. * José Agüero (Cuban tennis), Cuban tennis player of the 1940s. * José Agüero (footballer), Spanish footballer for Athletic ...

Miguel Mieg Miguel Mieg Alonso (29 September 1896 – 19 April 1981), was a Spanish footballer who played as a midfielder for Athletic Club de Madrid. A historical member of Athletic Madrid in the late 1910s, he was one of the first footballers to play for t ...

and

Saturno Villaverde Saturno Villaverde Lavandera (29 February 1892 - Unknown), nicknamed Saturnino and also known as Villaverde II, was a Spanish footballer who played as a forward for Athletic Club de Madrid. His brothers, Fernando and Senén, were also footballe ...

and

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José María Castell José María Castell García de la Cruz (24 September 1896 - 13 October 1981) was a Spanish footballer who played as a midfielder. Castell was one of the most important figures of Madrid FC at the beginning and middle of the 20th last century, as ...

, who was the only player of Madrid FC in the squad. Despite being a weaker side than in the previous tournaments, they managed to win the tournament for the first time in the team's history, with the then unknown Saturnino being the star of the tournament with three goals - a brace against

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in a 2-2 draw and the winner against Cantabric in a 3-2 win - while Mieg and Agüero scored the goals of the decisive game against Catalonia. In the 1918 edition, they were set up to face Cantabric in a two-legged final, and Centro won both games by an aggregate score of 6-3, with the Castilian goalscorers being

Feliciano Rey Feliciano Rey Álvarez (4 July 1894 - 4 March 1974), was a Spanish footballer who played as a midfielder for Racing de Madrid and Madrid FC. After retiring, he had a short spell at Deportivo Balompié as manager. Club career Born in Madrid, he ...

, Gomar,

José María Sansinenea José María Ygnacio Sansinenea Goñi (1 August 1896 - 11 August 1924), simply known as Sansinenea, was a Spanish footballer who played as a forward. Club career Born in San Sebastián, Sansinenea found his way into the home of a very prominent c ...

(2) and

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(2). They also had a memorable campaign in the 1923–24 Prince of Asturias Cup, where they beat Galicia 1-0 in the quarter-finals just as Galicia had done to them in the quarter-finals of the previous edition, and then defeated the South team 2-1 in the semi-finals thanks to a brace from

Juan Monjardín Juan Monjardín Callejón (24 April 1903 – 13 November 1950) was a Spanish footballer who played as a striker. He played for Real Madrid and earned 4 caps for the Spain national football team, competing at the 1924 Summer Olympics. A histor ...

, and in the

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against

Monjardín appeared to have been the hero once more when he scored early at the beginning of extra time to put Madrid 4-3 up, but with two minutes remaining Sagi-Barba leveled the scores at 4-4, forcing a replay in which Monjardín scored twice, but his efforts were in vain as Catalonia ran 3-2 winners.

Stagnation

The ''Centro'' Federation evolved into the Castilian Football Federation in the 1930s, and into the Madrid Federation in the 1980s; both organisations considered themselves to be the successor to ''Centro'', using its 1913 foundation date as the basis for their celebrations of a 50th Anniversary in 1963 and 100th Anniversary in 2013, including special fixtures featuring a regional representative squad.

Match history

Results

Table

Honours

: *Champions (2):

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and

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*Runners-up (2):

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and

1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...

Notable players

* Bernabéu *

René Petit Renato Petit de Ory, better known by its French name, René Petit (8 October 1899 – 14 October 1989) was a Franco-Spanish engineer, known for being a footballer in his youth. He was one of the most popular players in Spanish football in the 19 ...

Ferenc Puskás Ferenc Puskás (, ; born Ferenc Purczeld; 1 April 1927 – 17 November 2006) was a Hungarian football player and manager, widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time and the sport's first international superstar. A forward, ...

References

External links

Official website
{{Non-FIFA teams Spanish autonomous football teams Football in the Community of Madrid