RSD Alcalá

Alcalá de Henares, being a city of students, has a long football history. With the influence of the capital proximity where football was played long before, in 1908 appeared Alcalá Foot-Ball Club. During World War I, the town housed a large number of German boarding schools that fostered the development of local youth, and two short-lived clubs were founded shortly after: in 1920, the Unión Deportiva Alcalaína and in 1922, the Sociedad Gimnástica Alcalaína. On October 1, 1924, the Piarist Eusebio Gómez de Miguel, a mathematics teacher at the school located in the former university, founded a new club, the Alcalá Football Club, which had nothing to do with the previous one. It began playing in the Artesian Well Era, in what is now known as the Antezana neighborhood. At the same time, Ángel Gómez Alcalá founded the Deportivo Obrera Alcalaína, using part of the equipment of Alcalá F.C., playing on the latter's field until the merger of the two clubs on May 1, 1929, to form the Sociedad Deportiva Alcalá, as it has survived to this day. On December 20 of that same year, 1929, the club was granted the title of Real. The president of the Sociedad Deportiva Alcalá, Fernando Presas, requested the Royal Household to grant it this honor,[1] and from then on, it has been known as Real Sociedad Deportiva Alcalá. As a curious fact, it is worth noting that Alcalá has two honorary presidents: HRH King Felipe VI and Rodolfo Gómez de Vargas. In terms of sport, Real Sociedad Deportiva Alcalá…