Julio Chulilla Gazol

Julio Chulilla Gazol (2 February 1887 – 7 January 1960) was a Spanish footballer who played as a forward for Madrid FC. He was one of the most important figures in the amateur beginnings of Madrid FC as a club founder in 1903, as a player for the team between 1905 and 1912, and then as secretary from 1912 to 1924, and even as the editor of Madrid Sport, the official organ of the club.

Early life Julio Chulilla Gazol was born on 2 February 1887 in Madrid, as the son of Atanasio Chulilla y Villaroya, a merchant who went bankrupt in 1906 and died in Madrid in 1919, leaving his wife, Ignacia Gazol Reula, a widow, with five children, three of whom were sons.

The surname Chulilla is toponymic derived from the Andalusian town of the same name in the province of Murcia in Spain. As a typical Andalusian, even though he was born in Madrid, Chulilla was a short man with dark hair and a mustache, being measured at 1.54 meters tall and was therefore reformed at the military visit, but he was gifted with great communication. Chulilla also had a lively and nervous temperament oriented more towards action than study; in fact, he soon abandoned his studies in customs at the ; then directed by Eugenio Sainz Romillo, whose niece he would marry in 1921; to dedicate himself to his true passion: sport.

That niece was Maria del Carmen Sainz Alvarez Mesa, who he married in the autumn of 1921. Her mother participated in the ceremony as godmother of the bride and her uncle Eugenio Sainz Romillo as best man for her bride, while her father was absent. His love for the club was so much so that he managed to transmit his enthusiasm to his son, who started going to the Madrid field at the age of 4, where under the watchful eye of my father, he began collecting the balls that left the field of play. He can be seen in the photograph that immortalizes this historic event with a frock coat and top hat.

The magazine Madrid Sport did not only deal with sport but also with the family life of athletes and members, announcing weddings, anniversaries, meetings, Et cetera.

In 1921, Julio Chulilla Gazol entered into a partnership with Felipe Angel Rodríguez, another founding member of Madrid FC - membership number 31 -, opening a new, larger printing shop to meet the growing demand, with the company name " Chulilla y Angel" in Calle Torrecilla of Leal, 17 in Madrid. In this printing house, in addition to printing the official magazine of Real Madrid FC, Madrid Sport, and all the material needed by the sports club, the first edition of the novel "Fermín Galán (Romance de ciego)" by Rafael Alberti was printed in 1931 and also works in Esperanto by Francisco Azorin Izquierdo. Just as art books were printed such as Jiménez Aranda's critical-biographical essay on Bernardino de Pantorba (pseudonym of José López Jiménez) from 1930 enriched with 55 illustrations.

In 1936, when the Civil War had already begun, political leaflets for the youth of the Republican left were also printed in this printing house.