Why does Getafe's colour is deep blue?

Nowadays, Getafe's uniform colour is very well known, the team is called "The Deep Blues", but where does this colour come from?

   The Getafe story took off in 1924, when Getafe FC was founded as a lower division team. Getafe FC disappeared because of the Spanish Civil War (1936 - 1939). Just after the war, in 1946 five Getafe locals: Amelio Miranda, Antonio Corridor, Enrique Condes, Manuel Serrano y Miguel Cubero, who used to met all together at "La Marquesina Bar" in the town, re-founded the local football team as "Club Getafe Deportivo".

   At this time, Getafe was a small town, so all the players were locals, and most of them were working in construction, farms and in all kind of manufacturing jobs, so they used to wear deep blue coveralls. The had the training sessions just after work so they came up to this sessions with the same deep blue coveralls that they were wearing at their work places. For that reason, they decided to set up the deep blue colour to represent themselves and their origin as a proletarians.

   There is another theory about the origin of the deep blue colour, a religious one. The dress worn by the local virgin called "Our Lady of the Angels" is traditionally deep blue as well.

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