His fondness for the sport of football led to the patronage of several " Royal " (" Real " in Spanish ) football clubs such as Real Madrid, Real Sociedad, Real Betis, Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña, Real Unión and Real Zaragoza.

During the 1930s and 1940s and in the last two decades, however, La Liga has seen other champions, including, Atlético Madrid, Athletic Bilbao, Valencia, Real Sociedad, Deportivo, Real Betis, and Sevilla.

Barcelona, Real Madrid, Athletic Bilbao, Real Sociedad, Arenas Club de Getxo and Real Unión were all selected as previous winners of the Copa del Rey.

The Madrid winning sequence was ended more significantly in 1981 when Real Sociedad won their first-ever title.

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In 1790, at the inaugural meeting of the Real Sociedad Económica de Cosecheros de La Rioja ( Royal Economic Society of Rioja Winegrowers ), many initiatives as to how to construct, fix, and maintain the roads and other forms of access for transportation of wine were discussed.

Other clubs such as Real Unión, Arenas Club de Getxo and Real Sociedad also provided players.

In December 1975, before a game against Real Sociedad, Iribar and the Real captain Ignacio Kortabarria, carried out the Ikurriña, the Basque flag and placed it ceremonially on the centre-circle.

In 1995, Athletic signed Joseba Etxeberria from regional rivals Real Sociedad, causing considerable bad feeling between the two clubs.

This was eventually achieved with one match remaining, with Athletic moving clear of early-season successes RCD Espanyol after a series of narrow victories, including 2 – 1 wins over Basque rivals Osasuna and Real Sociedad in successive weeks.

The players began to adjust to the changes as the season progressed, however, and following an away victory at local rivals Real Sociedad, Athletic produced a strong run of Autumn form which included wins over Paris Saint-Germain, CA Osasuna, and Sevilla FC, as well as credible draws with Valencia CF and FC Barcelona, only to drop points at home to newly-promoted Granada CF.

The club became first widely known in Spain in 1995 – 96, while still playing at the third level, for its extraordinary run in the Spanish Cup, eliminating three top flight clubs ( Real Sociedad, Racing de Santander and Sporting de Gijón ) and only being knocked out in the quarter-finals by FC Barcelona, after taking the lead.

Real Sociedad de Fútbol, S. A. D.

( more commonly referred to as Real Sociedad ) is a Spanish football club based in the city of San Sebastián, Basque Country, founded on 7 September 1909.

* Other highly successful club sides of the 1980s include Juventus ( 7 major honours won ), Real Madrid ( 10 major honors won ), Bayern Munich ( 9 titles won ) and PSV Eindhoven ( 4 times Dutch champions and European Cup winners in 1988 ).

Real Madrid have won the title a record 32 times and Barcelona 21 times.

Although Barcelona won the very first Liga in 1929 and Real Madrid won their first titles in 1932 and 1933, it was Athletic Bilbao that set the early pace winning Primera División in 1930, 1931, 1934 and 1936.

In 1935, Real Betis, then known as Betis Balompié, won their only title to date.

Madrid won the first division for the first time as Real Madrid in 1954 and retained its title in 1955.

During this period, Real Madrid also won an unprecedented five consecutive European Cups.

Terry Venables led Barcelona to a solitary title in 1985 before Real Madrid won again another five in a row sequence ( 1986 – 1990 ) with a team guided by Leo Beenhakker and including Hugo Sánchez and the legendary La Quinta del Buitre-Emilio Butragueño, Manolo Sanchís, Martín Vázquez, Míchel and Miguel Pardeza.

Atlético Madrid won their ninth Primera División title in 1996 before Real Madrid added another Liga trophy to their cabinet in 1997.

Real Madrid won two more Liga titles in 2001 and 2003 and also the UEFA Champions League in 2000 and 2002, and won their third league title in 2007 after a three year drought.

With world class players like Raúl, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Gonzalo Higuain, Real Madrid won back to back La Liga titles in 2006 – 07 and 2007 – 08 season.

In the 2011-2012 season, Real Madrid won its 32nd title under the management of José Mourinho with a record-breaking points tally of 100, a record 121 number of goals scored, most overall ( 32 ) and away ( 16 ) wins in a single season in La Liga History.

In 1993, Adnams Extra won the Champion Beer of Britain ( CBOB )-an award presented by the Campaign for Real Ale ( CAMRA ) at the annual Great British Beer Festival.

Close has also won Tony Awards in 1984 for The Real Thing, and in 1992 for Death and the Maiden.

Two weeks later, Real Madrid comfortably beat Feyenoord 5 – 0, and eventually won the European Cup that season.

At club level Zidane won the La Liga and the UEFA Champions League with Real Madrid, two Serie A league championships with Juventus and an Intercontinental Cup and a UEFA Super Cup each with both aforementioned sides.

Zidane was voted as FIFA World Player of the Year on three occasions ( 1998, 2000 and 2003 ), a feat matched only by his former Real Madrid team mate Ronaldo, and also won the Ballon d ' Or in 1998.

In June 1995, having lost his influence in the Real Madrid side ( only eight matches, with one goal, as the club won another league ), mainly due to the emergence of 17-year old Raúl González, Butragueño signed for Club Celaya in Mexico and, in his first year, the team reached the final of the national championship.

Among other honors, Gento won the European Cup a record 6 times with Real Madrid ( an unmatched record ), scoring 30 goals in 89 European Cup career matches.

Buoyed by the success of the Plano Real, Cardoso decided to run for the Presidency and, backed by President Franco, won in the first round of elections, on October 3, 1994.

He made his La Liga debut on 1 December 1929 against Real Madrid, and scored 37 league goals in his first two seasons combined ( only 36 games ) as the club won back-to-back national championships, adding as many Copa del Rey trophies.

Real Time IM will connect directly to a users PC and their partners PCs as well.

Chelsea took their first European honour, a UEFA Cup Winners ' Cup triumph, the following year, with another replayed win, this time over Real Madrid in Athens.

The sugar mill owners soon formed a new colonial elite, and convinced the Spanish king to allow them to elect the members of the Real Audiencia from their ranks.

In the early 1960s, Brubeck and his wife Iola developed a jazz musical, The Real Ambassadors, based in part on experiences they and their colleagues had during foreign tours on behalf of the US State Department.

Most churches in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States, also practice their own form of open communion, provided those who receive are baptized and believe in the Real Presence.

Loblaws, Atlantic Superstore, and Real Canadian Superstore grant a 5 cent a litre coupon that can be used at their stores.

Real analysis is an area of analysis that studies concepts such as sequences and their limits, continuity, differentiation, integration and sequences of functions.

As its primary annual, celebrity-studded fundraiser, Real Men Charities sponsors " Real Men Cook " events and programs in fifteen cities nationwide, where African American men gather to present their best recipes — some original, others handed down for generations — for charity.

Ultrasound Identification ( USID ) is a Real Time Locating System ( RTLS ) or Indoor Positioning System ( IPS ) technology used to automatically track and identify the location of objects in real time using simple, inexpensive nodes ( badges / tags ) attached to or embedded in objects and devices, which then transmit an ultrasound signal to communicate their location to microphone sensors.

Meanwhile, SNK released several fighting games on their Neo-Geo platform, including Samurai Shodown II in 1994, Real Bout Fatal Fury in 1995, The Last Blade in 1997, and annual updates to their The King of Fighters franchise.

Real life martial artists do use such techniques in martial arts to paralyse or stun their opponents.

Real debt burdens therefore rise, causing borrowers to cut spending to service their debts or to default.

During this era, only Atlético Madrid offered Real Madrid any serious challenge, adding four more titles to their tally in 1966, 1970, 1973, and 1977.

One year later, the same concept was used by MTV in their new series The Real World and Nummer 28 creator Erik Latour has long claimed that The Real World was directly inspired by his show.

However, the producers of The Real World have stated that their direct inspiration was An American Family.

Despite arguments that realism cannot be achieved in reality shows because the outcomes may or may not have been scripted, Geoff King argues in his book, Spectacle of the Real: From Hollywood to Reality TV and Beyond that even though the contestants are in a fabricated setting and the situation has been set up for a certain outcome, as in real love shows such as The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, these contestants still harbor feelings that make their participation in the show real to them.