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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] |
Madrid
Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits, second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its wikt:monocentric, monocentric Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area is the List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, second-largest in the EU.United Nations Department of Economic and Social AffairWorld Urbanization Prospects (2007 revision), (United Nations, 2008), Table A.12. Data for 2007. The municipality covers geographical area. Madrid lies on the Manzanares (river), River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula at about above mean sea level. The capital city of both Spain and the surrounding Community of Madrid, autonomous community of Madrid (since 1983), it is also th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
