Cesáreo Galíndez Sánchez (23 September 1894 – 15 March 1990) was a Spanish businessman and the 17th president of Atlético Madrid between 1947 and 1952.
[3] Cesáreo Galíndez was born on 23 September 1894 in the Biscayan town of Gordexola, later settling in the capital of Spain, where he became a jeweler industrialist by profession.
[1] In 1931, Galíndez joined the board of directors of Atlético Madrid as a member, when Rafael González Iglesias was elected president.
[1] His mandate began during the period of the so-called Delantera de Seda (José Juncosa, Antonio Vidal, Alfonso Silva, Juan Escudero, and Campos), one of the most remembered in athletic history.
In fact, when the former played a friendly match for Stade Français at the Metropolitano on 6 May 1948, someone in the box, which many believe to have been the president Galíndez himself, exclaimed: "We have to sign the black man!".