Origins of the spanish sport newspapers: El Mundo Deportivo

Abstract

To know more about the first sport newspapers which appeared in Spain in the nineteenth century and earliest twentieth century; and in particular their consolidation as daily newspapers, with a case of study focused on El Mundo Deportivo. It has been necessary to go to specific papers that talk about the history of sport and sport newspapers, as well as empirical research itself.
El Mundo Deportivo is the dean of Spanish sport daily newspapers, nowadays, is the only Spanish sport daily newspaper born in the early twentieth century which survives today. The dean of Spanish sport daily newspapers is a proof of how the editor newspaper personality – only eight during more than a century- impregnates the whole of the writing, and ensure the continuity of the newspaper itself.