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444:) by four goals to one, with the section's first-ever goal being netted by Manuel Morales. This result proved to be decisive in the outcome of the tournament since the SGE's football team ended as runner-ups to Madrid FC by just one point. In the first excursion that the section made outside the province of Madrid, they traveled to
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and, of course, football, whose section was formed in mid-1907, and it quickly became one of Madrid's benchmarks. Previously there was a company called Club Retiro that turned out to be the embryo of the SGE's football section, with Gimnástica incorporating several of its most prominent athletes and
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506:, competing head-to-head with them and winning the Centro championship on four occasions, three of which in a row between 1910 and 1912 and a fourth in 1913–14. As the champions of Madrid, Sociedad Gimnástica represented the capital in the
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