VALENCIA SOCCER EXPERIENCE
Football arrived in the city of Valencia through those who, due to their links with citrus fruit exportation, had spent time in Britain. Likewise, it was also quite common to see British sailors playing with a ball in Valencian ports. Teams such as Levante, Gimnástico, Hispania and Hispano were around in 1908, but it was with the celebration of the regional exhibition in 1909 that the sport achieved great success in the city......
At the start of the 1920s, a small group of Vila-real citizens who were sports fans in general, but football fans in particular, decided to further promote the practice of this sport. Thus, on 10th March 1923 they founded 'Club Deportivo Villarreal' who, despite not competing in official competitions until the next decade, played numerous friendly matches......
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Levante, together with Gimnástico, was able to endure in a very complicated sequence in the progress of contemporary entities that were related to the first football played in the city of Valencia. Most of the clubs disappeared leaving no footprints, nor stamps of their existance. Fortunately, this was not the case for either Levante or Gimnástico, who strengthened their internal structures in the 1920s, competing for the position of football main representative against Valencia C.F., in the shade of the tower of Miguelete. In 1922, the opening of Campo de La Cruz (September), and the premiere of the Stadium of Vallejo in 1925, became prominent milestones which emphasised the weight and strenght of Levante and Gimnástico in the Valencian society. Shortly, titles adorned their records inside the cabinets. The squad of Poblados Marítimos debuted as the champion of the Campeonato Regional in January, 1928......
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