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La Liga: Five Things to Know About Sevilla FC

1. Sevilla won the first-ever organised football match in Spain

For many years it was believed that the club was formed in 1905 but the discovery of a copy of the Dundee Courier in the British Library in 2012 traced the club back to 1890. The newspaper revealed that the club’s first president was, in fact, Edward Farquharson Johnston, then the British vice-consul in the city and owner of a shipping company which sold Andalusian oranges in the UK.

In that same year, the club challenged neighbours Huelva Recreation Club (today known as Recreativo Huelva) to a match at a horse-racing track near the city limits on the 8th March. Amid driving rain more typical of northern Europe, Sevilla won 2-0 with goals from Ritson and Yugles in front of a crowd of 150 spectators… and Spanish football was born.

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La Liga: Experiencing 5 La Liga Derbies In Mzansi… Spanish Style

La Liga derbies bring the fiercest football rivalries to life in South Africa.

February 2019. – There are fierce football rivalries…and then there are derbies. Spanish football league LaLiga Santander is home to some of the most celebrated of these long-running on-pitch battles in the world – and on 31 January, select South African media got to experience all the passion, tradition and spectacle first-hand through an immersive local LaLiga Derbies event at the Mesh Club in Rosebank.

La Liga derbies - Madrid Derby

Five LaLiga derbies are taking place between February and April – to be screened locally on SuperSport 7 – and the media event encouraged attendees to explore every aspect of the high-emotion derby experience, which is as deeply entrenched in Spanish culture as its signature regional foods.

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