{{short description|Spanish footballer}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Mario Giralt | image = | image_size = | caption = | fullname = Mario Giralt Iduate | birth_date = 1882 | birth_place = La Habana, Captaincy General of Cuba, Cuba | death_date = Unknown | death_place = Madrid, Spain | height = | position = Forward | years1 = 1897–1900 | clubs1 = Sky Football club | caps1 = | goals1 = | years2 = 1900–1903 | clubs2 = Madrid FC | caps2 = | goals2 = | years3 = 1903–19?? | clubs3 = Club Español de Madrid | caps3 = | goals3 = }} '''Mario Giralt Iduate''' (1882 – Unknown) was a Cuban-born Spanish footballer who played as a forward for Madrid FC.<ref name=bdfutbol>{{cite web |url=https://www.bdfutbol.com/en/j/j1002842.html |title=Mario Giralt Iduate - Footballer |website=www.bdfutbol.com |access-date=21 July 2022 |archive-date=22 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220722200001/https://www.bdfutbol.com/en/j/j1002842.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He was a member of some of the oldest football entities in Spain, such as Sky Football, Madrid Football Club and the Club Deportivo Español, being a founding member of the first two together with his older brothers José and Armando, who both had memorable careers.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Catalan founded Real Madrid |url=http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com/preview/1992/12/27/pagina-2/1275104/pdf.html |publisher=Mundo Deportivo |author=Tomás Guasch |date=27 December 1992 |access-date=21 July 2022 |archive-date=13 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413161709/http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com/preview/1992/12/27/pagina-2/1275104/pdf.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=Ano1902>{{Cite web |url=http://www.elmundo.es/elmundodeporte/especiales/2002/02/centenario/1902_2.html |title=Los 100 años del Real Madrid, uno a uno: 1902 |trans-title=The 100 years of Real Madrid one by one: 1902 |language=es |publisher=Diario El Mundo |access-date=21 July 2022 |archive-date=27 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220627135618/https://www.elmundo.es/elmundodeporte/especiales/2002/02/centenario/1902_2.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=JUNTA>{{Cite web |url=http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com/preview/1992/12/27/pagina-2/1275104/pdf.html |title=La primera junta directiva del Madrid Foot-ball Club |trans-title=The first Board of Directors of Madrid FC |language=es |publisher=Mundo Deportivo |access-date=21 July 2022 |archive-date=13 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413161709/http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com/preview/1992/12/27/pagina-2/1275104/pdf.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
== Biography == Mario was born in La Habana, Captaincy General of Cuba, in Cuba, when the country was under the sovereignty of the Spanish Empire. They moved to Madrid when he and his brothers were still young. In Madrid, he was part of the Sky Foot-ball club, the first club that existed in the capital, however, in 1900, a conflict between Sky Football members caused some of them to leave (including the Giralts) and create a new club, Madrid Football Club, currently known as Real Madrid CF, with the official creation of the club being held on 6 March 1902 in the back room of Al Capricho, a meeting in which the Giralts were present, and they become members of the first Board of Directors of Madrid FC presided by Juan Padrós.<ref name=JUNTA/>
He then become one of the first footballers of the newly formed Madrid FC, playing as a forward.<ref name=bdfutbol/> Mario was part of the historic Madrid team; which also included Arthur Johnson, Pedro Parages, Federico Revuelto, Antonio Neyra and his two brothers, José and Armando; that played in the first-ever Copa del Rey in 1903, playing alongside his two brothers in the final, where they were beaten 2–3 by Athletic Club.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tabless/spancup1903.html |title=Spain - Cup 1903 |date=13 January 2000 |access-date=22 July 2022 |archive-date=21 July 2022 |website=RSSSF |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220721002335/https://www.rsssf.org/tabless/spancup1903.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
Following a conflict within the white club that caused the departure of several of its founding members, among whom the Giralt brothers and Antonio Neyra, they refounded Club Español de Madrid, a club founded in 1901, but who had collapsed in the summer.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.elmundo.es/elmundodeporte/especiales/2002/02/centenario/1903.html |title=La triste decisión de los Giralt |trans-title=The sad decision of the Giralts |language=es |publisher=Diario El Mundo |access-date=22 July 2022 |archive-date=7 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170807021425/http://www.elmundo.es/elmundodeporte/especiales/2002/02/centenario/1903.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It was in this club where the news of his sports activity was interrupted, suggesting he retired no long after joining Español de Madrid, thus hanging up his boots considerably sooner than his two younger brothers.
==Honours== ===Club=== Club Español de Madrid *'''Centro Championship:''' **'''Champions (1)''': 1903–04 *'''Copa del Rey:''' **'''Runner-up (1)''': 1904
Madrid FC *'''Copa del Rey:''' **'''Runner-up (1)''': 1903
== See also == * List of Real Madrid CF players
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Giralt, José}} Category:1882 births Category:Year of death missing Category:Spanish men's footballers Category:Men's association football forwards Category:Real Madrid CF players Category:Footballers from Havana Category:Footballers from Madrid Category:Cuban men's footballers Category:Cuban emigrants to Spain Category:20th-century Cuban sportsmen