Heracles Almelo

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Heracles Almelo

Full name

Heracles Almelo

Nickname(s)

Heraclieden

Founded

May 3, 1903

Ground

Polman Stadion
Almelo

Capacity

8,500

Chairman

Jan Smit

Manager

Ruud Brood

League

Eredivisie

2005-06

Eredivisie, 13th





Home colours





Away colours

Heracles Almelo is a football club from Almelo, the Netherlands.

Heracles Almelo were founded on May 3, 1903 as Heracles after the demigod son of Zeus. They changed their name on July 1, 1974 to SC Heracles '74 and finally settled on the current name in 1998. The club has won the Dutch national title twice, in 1927 and 1941. One of the club's most famous players was South African Steve Mokone, nicknamed The Black Meteor, the first black football player in the Netherlands ever.

In the 2004/05 season, Heracles won the title in the Eerste Divisie, so that during the 2005/06 season, Heracles played in the Eredivisie, where they finished 13th. The average attendance in 2004/05 was 5,700 people. In the current top flight season this has risen to just over 8,300.

[edit] Current squad (2006/2007)

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Martin Pieckenhagen
2	DF	Bjorn Daelemans
3	DF	Eddy Bosnar
4	DF	Ragnar Klavan
5	DF	Mark Looms
6	MF	Rob Maas
8	MF	Kai Michalke
9	FW	Igor Gluščević
10	FW	Stefaan Tanghe
11	FW	Diego Biseswar
12	MF	Emmanuel Boakye

No.	Position	Player
14	MF	Marnix Smit
15	MF	Jan Wuytens
16	GK	Remko Pasveer
17	MF	Remon de Vries
18	FW	Marc Höcher
19	FW	Everton
20	FW	Karim Bridji
21	FW	Kwame Quansah
22	FW	Rob Friend (on loan from sc Heerenveen)
23	DF	Robbert Schilder (on loan from Ajax)

[edit] Former managers

Peter Bosz
Henk ten Cate
Azing Griever
Hennie Hollink
Fritz Korbach
Gerard Marsman
Jan van Staa
Gertjan Verbeek

[edit] External links

Official website (Dutch)
Fansite HAFC.nl (Dutch)
Tactical formations at football-lineups.com (English)

Heracles Almelo - Current Squad
1 Pieckenhagen \| 2 Daelemans \| 3 Bosnar \| 4 Klavan \| 5 Looms \| 6 Maas \| 7 Hofstede \| 8 Michalke \| 10 Tanghe \| 11 Biseswar \| 12 Boakye \| 14 Smit \| 15 Wuytens \| 16 Pasveer \| 17 De Vries \| 18 Höcher \| 19 Everton \| 20 Bridji \| 21 Quansah \| 23 Schilder \| Manager: Brood