History
Football
was introduced to Madrid by the professors and students of the
Institución Libre de Enseñanza who included several Oxbridge graduates.
They founded the club Football Sky in 1895, playing on Sunday mornings
at Moncloa. This club split in 1900 into two different clubs New
Foot-Ball de Madrid and Club Español de Madrid. The president of the
latter club was Julián Palacios. The latter club split again in 1902,
resulting in the formation of Sociedad Madrid FC on March 6, 1902. The
first president was Juan Padrós Rubió, the first secretary was Manuel
Mendía and the first treasurer was José de Gorostizaga. Juan Padrós
Rubió would be later succeeded by his brother, Carlos Padrós from
Spain. Only three years after its foundation, in 1905, Madrid FC won
its first major title in the Estadio Chamartín stadium. The team won
the first of four consecutive Copa del Rey titles (at that time the
only statewide competition). In 1912 it moved to its first ground
called Campo de Rose after moving between some minor grounds. In 1920
the club's name was changed to Real Madrid after the King granted the
title of Real (Royal) to the club.
Santiago
Bernabéu Yeste became President in 1945. Under his presidency,
the club, the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium and the Ciudad Deportiva were
rebuilt following the Spanish Civil War. Beginning in 1953 he embarked
upon a strategy of signing world-class players from abroad, the most
prominent of them being the signing of Alfredo Di Stéfano and built the
world's first multinational side.In 1955, acting upon the idea proposed
by the French sports journalist and editor of L'Équipe Gabriel Hanot,
and building upon the Copa Latina (a tournament involving clubs from
France, Spain, Portugal and Italy), Bernabéu met in the Ambassador
Hotel in Paris with Bedrignan and Milan Ceko and created what today is
known as the UEFA Champions League. It was under Bernabéu's
guidance,
that Real Madrid became established as a major force in both Spanish
and European football. The club won the European Cup five times in a
row between 1956 and 1960, which included the memorable 7–3 Hampden
Park final against Eintracht Frankfurt in 1960. Winning the competition
five consecutive times saw Real permanently awarded the original cup
and earning the right to wear the UEFA badge of honour. The club won
the European Cup for a sixth time in 1966 defeating FK Partizan 2–1 in
the final with a team composed entirely of nationally-born players - a
first in the competition. It was also runner-up in 1962, 1964
and
1981. The team have also won the UEFA Cup twice and was twice runner-up
in the European Cup Winners Cup
By
the early 1980s, Real Madrid had lost its grasp on the La Liga title
until a new batch of home-grown stars, known as El Quinta del Buitre
started to dominate Spanish football. The name ("Vulture's Cohort") was
derived from the nickname given to one of its members, Emilio
Butragueño. The other four members were Manolo Sanchís, Martín Vázquez,
Míchel and Miguel Pardeza. With La Quinta del Buitre (reduced
to four
members when Pardeza left the club for Zaragoza in 1986) Real Madrid
had one of the best teams in Spain and Europe during the second half of
the 1980s, winning two UEFA Cups and five Spanish championships in a
row.
Martín
Vázquez went to play for Torino in 1990. He made a
return to Real Madrid in 1992, leaving the club again for good in 1995
(to Deportivo La Coruña). In 1995 and 1996 Butragueño and Míchel left
the club and went to play for Atlético Celaya in Mexico. In 1996
President Lorenzo Sanz appointed Fabio Capello as coach. Although his
tenure lasted only one season, Real Madrid was proclaimed league
champion and players like Roberto Carlos, Predrag Mijatović, Davor
Šuker and Clarence Seedorf arrived at the club to strengthen a squad
that already boasted the likes of Raúl, Fernando Hierro and Fernando
Redondo. As a result, Real Madrid (with the addition of Fernando
Morientes in 1997) finally ended its 32-year wait for the seventh
European Cup in 1998 under manager Jupp Heynckes, defeating Juventus
1–0 in the final, thanks to a goal from Predrag Mijatović.
In
July 2000 Florentino Pérez was elected club president vowing to
erase the club's debt and modernise the club's facilities, however the
primary electoral promise that propelled Pérez to victory was the
signing of Luís Figo. On July 16, Pérez won the election. The club
controversially got its training ground re-zoned and used the money to
begin to assemble the famous Galáctico side including players such as
Zidane, Ronaldo, Luís Figo, Roberto Carlos, Raúl and David Beckham. It
is debatable whether the gamble paid off as despite a European Cup win
in 2002, followed by the League in 2003, the club then failed to win a
major trophy for the next three seasons.
Ramón
Calderón was elected
as club president in July, 2006 and subsequently appointed Fabio
Capello as the new coach and Predrag Mijatović as the new sporting
director. Real Madrid won the La Liga title in 2007 for the first time
in four years.[6] However, despite the achievement of winning La Liga,
Capello was sacked one month later, in June 2007, and was replaced by
German manager Bernd Schuster. Schuster failed to win
Supercopa de
España after a 5-3 defeat against Sevilla F.C. at Santiago Bernabeu.
Real Madrid's 2007/2008 campaign in the UEFA Champions League ended
when AS Roma defeated them 2-1 home and away in the Round of 16
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