Real Madrid
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol, better known simply as Real Madrid, is a sports entity based in Madrid, Spain. It was officially registered as a soccer club by its members on March 6, 1902 in order to practice and develop this sport.
Identified by its white color from which it receives the nickname of "whites" or "meringues", it is one of the four professional soccer clubs in the country whose legal entity is not that of a sports corporation, since its ownership rests with its most of 100,000 members.
The first coat of arms adopted in 1902 has evolved in different models and versions to adopt the current one, in force since 2002. It has a circular shape under the Spanish royal crown. The three initials of the club, present from the first format, are intertwined on a navy blue band that runs diagonally through it. The entire composition is framed in a gold border.
In 1903, agronomist Luis María de Segovia dedicated a double step to the club in what could be considered the club's first unofficial anthem.
The club's official anthem, sung by José de Aguilar and heard at every game in the stadium, took shape on a train that made the Aranjuez-Madrid route. In it were the musician and composer Marino García and his wife, Antonio Villena Sánchez and the teacher Indalecio Cisneros, author of the original music and lyrics with the help of the aforementioned personalities related to the club.
Real Madrid has always dressed completely in white with the exception of some complement to the uniform for brief yearsThe origin of the Madridista uniformarises in line with the origin of the implantation of the new sport, football. All the primitive teams when stripping their street clothes were left in underwear, shirt and white shorts
Currently and since 1947 he plays his matches at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium - popularly named at its foundation as the New Chamartín Stadium and renamed in memory of the former president of the club which has a capacity of 81,044 spectators, the third with the largest capacity in Europe and which had a capacity of 120,000 spectators before being subjected to UEFA regulations on capacity