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Gijón (Spanish: ⓘ) or Xixón (Asturian:) is a city and municipality in north-western Spain.It is the largest city and municipality by population in the autonomous community of Asturias.
1905 – Sporting de Gijón is founded. 1913 – 22 people die and many more are injured while they were watching a controlled blast at the seaport of El Musel.Due to technical errors, a shower of stones fell on the 300 people who were watching the event.
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón was born in Rome on 5 November 1968, [1] to a Spanish father Ángel Sánchez-Gijón Martínez [], a history lecturer exiled from Francoism, and an Italian mother, Fiorella de Angelis, a lecturer. [2]
Gijón (or, in Asturian, Xixón; official name: Gijón/Xixón) is one of eight comarcas (this is the Spanish word; the Asturian is cotarros), administrative divisions of Asturias, which is a province and an autonomous community in Spain.
Algeria began their campaign by recording a surprising 2–1 win over West Germany on the opening day, described as the "greatest World Cup upset since North Korea beat Italy in 1966", [4] and as "one of the biggest shocks in World Cup history". [5] Algeria became the first African or Arab team to defeat a European team at the FIFA World Cup ...
The Gijón Sport Club introduced the sport of football in the region, which eventually became a mass phenomenon among the youth of Gijón, with both its rules of play and its clothing serving as a reference for other teams of the time, including Sporting Gijonés, which was founded by Anselmo López and his young friends in 1905, and which would later become Sporting Gijón.
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Gijón Railway Station, also known as Gijón Sanz Crespo, is the main railway station of Gijón, Spain.Since 2011 it is located in Sanz Crespo street due to the works for the Metrotrén Asturias project. [2]