Real Fortuna Football Club, was a Spanish
football
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club based in
Vigo
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,
Galicia, founded in 1905.
Background
Vigo
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was one of the cities through which football entered the
Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula (),
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* Aragonese and Occitan: ''Peninsula Iberica''
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* french: Péninsule Ibérique
* mwl, Península Eibérica
* eu, Iberiar penintsula also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in southwestern Europe, defi ...
, thanks to British sailors and workers. The first demonstrations of the sport were made by the team of the British company
Electric Telegraph Company
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, which was installing the
telegraph cable between the islands and Vigo, to connect with
Lisbon
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from there. This team was called the
Exiles Football Club and played several matches against British merchant and military crews passing through the
Port of Vigo
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. The first mixed teams between Galicians and the British were soon created, such as Petit FC, who in 1905 beat the Exiles for the first time.
History
Following the example of
Barcelona
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, where
FC Barcelona
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Founded ...
and
Català FC
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had been founded in 1899, Vigo came up with their own clubs in 1905, the
Vigo Football Club and the Fortuna Football Club, and from the cradle, there has been a great rivalry between the two. Fortuna would receive the title of "Real" in 1908, thus finally adopting the name of Real Fortuna Football Club de Vigo.
Fortuna won the
Galician Championship nine times in 1906, 1907, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1915, 1918, 1921 and 1922.
In order to create a powerful team that could successfully compete against the likes of Barcelona and Madrid, Fortuna merged with their great rivals, now called Real Vigo Sporting Football Club, to give birth to
Real Club Celta de Vigo
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in 1923. The last match between these two rivals was held on 11 March 1923, which the ''fortunistas'' lost.
Ramón González scored the only goal of the game in a 1–0 loss.
[
Real Vigo Sporting: Isidro; Otero, Pérez; Queralt, Hermida, Vázquez; Gerardo, R. González, Chiarroni, Tito and Pinilla
Real Fortuna: Lilo; ]Juanito
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Professional footballers
* Juan Ignacio Gomez Taleb (born 1985), Argentinian forward
* Juan Díaz Sánchez (1948–2013), Spanish forwa ...
, Pasarín; Balbino, Torres Torres may refer to:
People
*Torres (surname), a Spanish and Portuguese surname
*Torres (musician), singer-songwriter Mackenzie Scott
**Torres (album), ''Torres'' (album), 2013 self-titled album by Torres
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*Torres, Colorado, an un ...
, Córdoba; Reigosa, Rodríguez, Chicha
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, Correa and Salvador.
Honours
Regional
* Campionato Galego
** Winners (3): 1914–15, 1920–21, 1921–22
* Campionato Galego
** Winners (5): 1905–06, 1908–09, 1909–10, 1910–11, 1911–12
Notes
:1. Official
:2. Unofficial. These titles were not ratified by the Royal Spanish Football Federation
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References
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Association football clubs disestablished in 1923
1908 establishments in Spain
1923 disestablishments in Spain
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