Cesáreo Galíndez

Cesáreo Galíndez Sánchez (23 September 1894 – 15 March 1990) was a Spanish businessman and the 17th president of Atlético Madrid between 1947 and 1952. The presidency of Cesáreo Galíndez is considered one of the most fruitful in the club's history because, under his leadership, the club won two league titles and the Copa Eva Duarte.

Biography Cesáreo Galíndez was born on 23 September 1894 in the Biscayan town of Gordexola, later settling in the capital of Spain, where he became a jeweler industrialist by profession. Other notable players signed during his presidency were Larbi Benbarek (1948) and technicians joined as Helenio Herrera (1949). In fact, when the former played a friendly match for Stade Français at the Metropolitano on 6 May 1948, someone in the box, which many believe to have been the president Galíndez himself, exclaimed: "We have to sign the black man!".

Galíndez created the club's handball section in 1948, back when 11-a-side handball was played on football fields. The club paid eleven million eight hundred thousand pesetas for it, which meant the consolidation of its assets for the club.

Cesáreo Galíndez served as vice president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation between 1954 and 1956, during the presidency of the former president of Atlético de Madrid, Juan Touzón.

Death Galíndez died in Madrid on 15 March 1990, at the age of 95.