Mario Giralt

Mario Giralt
Personal information
Full name Mario Giralt Iduate
Date of birth 1882
Place of birth La Habana, Captaincy General of Cuba, Cuba
Date of death Unknown
Place of death Madrid, Spain
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1897–1900 Sky Football club
1900–1903 Madrid FC
1903–19?? Club Español de Madrid
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mario Giralt Iduate (1882 – Unknown) was a Cuban-born Spanish footballer who played as a forward for Madrid FC.[1] 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 José and Armando, who both had memorable careers.[2][3][4]

Biography

Mario was born in La Habana, Captaincy General of Cuba, in Cuba, when the country was under the sovereignty of the Spanish Empire. They moved to Madrid 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 Real Madrid CF, 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.[4]

He then become one of the first footballers of the newly formed Madrid FC, playing as a forward.[1] Mario was part of the historic Madrid team; which also included Arthur Johnson, Pedro Parages, Federico Revuelto, Antonio Neyra and his two brothers, José and Armando; that played in the first-ever Copa del Rey in 1903, playing alongside his two brothers in the final, where they were beaten 2–3 by Athletic Club.[5]

Following a conflict within the white club that caused the departure of several of its founding members, among whom the Giralt brothers and Antonio Neyra, they refounded Club Español de Madrid, a club founded in 1901, but who had collapsed in the summer.[6] 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

Club Español de Madrid

Madrid FC

See also

Notes

References

  1. ^ a b "Mario Giralt Iduate - Footballer". www.bdfutbol.com. Archived from the original on 22 July 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  2. ^ Tomás Guasch (27 December 1992). "A Catalan founded Real Madrid". Mundo Deportivo. Archived from the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  3. ^ "Los 100 años del Real Madrid, uno a uno: 1902" [The 100 years of Real Madrid one by one: 1902] (in Spanish). Diario El Mundo. Archived from the original on 27 June 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  4. ^ a b "La primera junta directiva del Madrid Foot-ball Club" [The first Board of Directors of Madrid FC] (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. Archived from the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  5. ^ "Spain - Cup 1903". RSSSF. 13 January 2000. Archived from the original on 21 July 2022. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
  6. ^ "La triste decisión de los Giralt" [The sad decision of the Giralts] (in Spanish). Diario El Mundo. Archived from the original on 7 August 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2022.