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| On 1 March 1898, Masferrer used ''Los Deportes'' to publish an appeal to all Spanish athletes to create a "Confederation of Spanish Gymnastic Societies".<ref name=GYM/> A positive response resulted in a meeting in Madrid on 7 June 1898 and the [[Royal Spanish Gymnastics Federation|Spanish Gymnastic Federation]] ({{Lang-es|link=no|Federación Gimnástica Española or FGE}}) was born, and a first Executive Committee was provisionally appointed.<ref name=73A/> When FGE was formed, its headquarters would be that of the Sociedad Gimnástica Español, also founded by him in Madrid in 1887, which meant that Masferrer, along with the other three founders (Monjardín, Coll and Charles), became members of the FGE Executive Committee, while [[Marcelo Sanz]] was named its general secretary.<ref name=GYM/> Although formed in 1898, the Spanish Gymnastics Federation was only officially founded on 26 September 1899, within the framework of its first General Assembly held in Madrid, therefore making the FGE the second oldest Spanish sports federation after the cycling one.<ref name=GYM/> As usual, ''Los Deportes'' would be its dissemination organ.<ref name=GYM/> In addition to the ''Los Deportes'' newsroom, the headquarters of his numerous associations were also based in the Solé Gymnasium,<ref name=Barça/> which become one of the first gym members of FGE. | On 1 March 1898, Masferrer used ''Los Deportes'' to publish an appeal to all Spanish athletes to create a "Confederation of Spanish Gymnastic Societies".<ref name=GYM/> A positive response resulted in a meeting in Madrid on 7 June 1898 and the [[Royal Spanish Gymnastics Federation|Spanish Gymnastic Federation]] ({{Lang-es|link=no|Federación Gimnástica Española or FGE}}) was born, and a first Executive Committee was provisionally appointed.<ref name=73A/> When FGE was formed, its headquarters would be that of the Sociedad Gimnástica Español, also founded by him in Madrid in 1887, which meant that Masferrer, along with the other three founders (Monjardín, Coll and Charles), became members of the FGE Executive Committee, while [[Marcelo Sanz]] was named its general secretary.<ref name=GYM/> Although formed in 1898, the Spanish Gymnastics Federation was only officially founded on 26 September 1899, within the framework of its first General Assembly held in Madrid, therefore making the FGE the second oldest Spanish sports federation after the cycling one.<ref name=GYM/> As usual, ''Los Deportes'' would be its dissemination organ.<ref name=GYM/> In addition to the ''Los Deportes'' newsroom, the headquarters of his numerous associations were also based in the Solé Gymnasium,<ref name=Barça/> which become one of the first gym members of FGE. |
| Although gymnastics occupied a priority place in FGE's objectives (as the name of the entity suggests), the federation's actual ambitions included all sports, such as athletics, football, and practically all other sports, with only cycling, sailing, and shooting having federative or pseudo-federative structures of its own at this time. This is why in its beginnings the FGE acted as the Spanish Football Federation.<ref name=GYM/> Moreover, it also acted as the Spanish Olympic Committee long before the foundation of the [[Spanish Olympic Committee]] in 1912.<ref name=GYM/> As the former, FGE organized some of the very first football tournaments in the history of Spanish football. Therefore, Masferrer's influence on the institutionalization process of Spanish sport was omnipresent in its yearly years. However, the FGE eventually began to decline, and around 1904 this society seems to disappear. Two years later, in 1906, Masferrer, among other people, lamented the disappearance of the Spanish Gymnastic Federation in the pages of ''Mundo Deportivo''.<ref name=GYM/> It was not until June 1932, at the initiative of the Spanish Gymnastics Society, that the current Spanish Federation of Gymnastics ({{Lang-es|link=no|Federación Española de Gimnasia or FEG}}), still known simply as the Spanish Gymnastics Federation, was established.<ref name=GYM/> | Although gymnastics occupied a priority place in FGE's objectives (as the name of the entity suggests), the federation's actual ambitions included all sports, such as athletics, football, and practically all other sports, with only cycling, sailing, and shooting having federative or pseudo-federative structures of its own at this time. This is why in its beginnings the FGE acted as the Spanish Football Federation.<ref name=GYM/> Moreover, it also acted as the Spanish Olympic Committee long before the foundation of the [[Spanish Olympic Committee]] in 1912.<ref name=GYM/> As the former, FGE organized some of the first football tournaments in the history of Spanish football. Therefore, Masferrer's influence on the institutionalization process of Spanish sport was omnipresent in its yearly years. However, the FGE eventually began to decline, and around 1904 this society seems to disappear. Two years later, in 1906, Masferrer, among other people, lamented the disappearance of the Spanish Gymnastic Federation in the pages of ''Mundo Deportivo''.<ref name=GYM/> It was not until June 1932, at the initiative of the Spanish Gymnastics Society, that the current Spanish Federation of Gymnastics ({{Lang-es|link=no|Federación Española de Gimnasia or FEG}}), still known simply as the Spanish Gymnastics Federation, was established.<ref name=GYM/> |
| ===Co-founding FC Barcelona=== | ===Co-founding FC Barcelona=== |
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