FC Metalosport Galați
Romanian football club
Fotbal Club Metalosport Galați, commonly known as Metalosport Galați, was a Romanian professional football club based in Galați, Romania.
History
Football from Galați can boast a long and rich history. If the sport with the round ball appeared in the cities of Arad and Bucharest shortly before 1900, in Galați arrived about ten years later. This was possible due to the presence in the city of foreign trade companies and representations.
The first games took place in 1908, when a team set up by officer Vladovici met a group of English sailors seated in the harbor. The career soldier, who had studied in France, brought to Galați the first regulation of the football game – a ball and a pair of boots.
The birth of FC Metalosport Galați club took place in 1937, when other sports groups are attracted by this movement and they worked together with established teams and associations. Among these entities, since 1937 Metalosport appeared, the first metallurgical group whose presence on the divisional stage is registered in the Divizia C championship, in the Seria II of the South League, in the competitive year 1937–38 (5th place at the end of the championship).
The third league – Divizia C – was organized for the first time 73 years ago (1936). It was an autumn-spring edition.
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