Defeat at the Nuevo Mirador against Real Madrid Castilla (0-1)
Algeciras CF was defeated in the last league matchday against Real Madrid Castilla by 0-1,….
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Behind their colours and emblems or coats of arms, sports entities are brimming with pieces of history of the cities they represent. The Algeciras C.F. sports emblem contains the coat of arms of the city made up of the Royal Crown, which only royal cities had, in other words, those that belonged to the King.
The palm and olive tree hark back to the Siege of Algeciras on Palm Sunday in 1344, and finally, the castle symbolises the rebirth of the city in the 18th century, after the events of Gibraltar in 1704. The triangular shape originated in Germany in the 12th and 13th centuries, as opposed to the 17th century Italian origin of the city’s coat of arms.
There is a ducal crown on top of the Algeciras coat of arms, in recognition of Don Juan Manuel Sánchez y Gutiérrez de Castro, Duke of Almodóvar del Río, Minister of State and representative of Spain in the Algeciras Conference, granting him the title of Duke of Algeciras on 31 December 1906.
The duke’s crown is: made of Gold, the circle set with gemstones and enhanced with eight fleurons resembling celery leaves. It’s interesting and “special” that the only institution that holds the noble title of Duke of Algeciras, is Algeciras C.F., renouncing the royal crown, which is “deliberately” missing from the city’s coat of arms, inside the sports emblem; perhaps to prevent an inferior ranked crown (ducal) from being set atop a coat of arms with a higher ranked crown (royal).
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