Manuel Gallego Suárez-Somonte

Manuel Gallego Suárez-Somonte (22 June 1894 – 24 December 1965) was a Spanish soldier, lieutenant general of the Air Force, and the 15th president of Atlético Madrid between 1941 and 1945. Under his leadership the team won its second league title, returned to the Metropolitano and the club grew both economically and financially. In 1919 he was assigned to the Arapiles Hunters Battalion No. 9 and later that year, he was promoted to lieutenant. In February he was discharged from the Infantry Arm and then from the Air Force at the beginning of March.

On 1 March 1941, the then Aviación president Luis Navarro was sent to Rome as a military attaché at the Spanish Embassy, so Gallego, who then held the position of lieutenant colonel, was appointed as the 15th president of Atlético Madrid, then known as Atlético Aviación, becoming the fourth military man to do so after José Maria Fernández, Francisco Vives, and Navarro. As the head of the later, Gallego promoted the idea of the "50th Gran Trofeo Valencia", a regatta between the boats of the Snipe class on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the in 1953. a year after retiring with the rank of lieutenant general.