Deportivo Veracruz

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Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz

Full name

Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz

Nickname(s)

Tiburones Rojos
(Red Sharks)

Founded

April 1943

Ground

Luis de la Fuente,
Veracruz, Veracruz
(Capacity 33,000)

Chairman

Eduardo Césarman

Manager

Miguel Herrera

League

Primera División A

Apertura 2007

13th (league) relegated





Home colours





Away colours

Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz, also known as Veracruz, is a Mexican professional football club. Veracruz plays in the Primera División A de México. The club was founded in 1943. Their nickname "Tiburones Rojos" means red sharks.

1 Honours
2 History
3 Current roster
- 3.1 Current Squad
- 3.2 Squad Changes for Clausura 2008 season
4 Notable Players
5 External links

[edit] Honours

League Championship: 2
- 1945-1946, 1949-1950
Primera Division A Championship: 1
- 2001
Mexican Cup: 1
- 1947-1948

[edit] History

Veracruz was founded around April of 1943. In their season of 1945-1946 Veracruz played 18 games with a streak of 14 wins and 4 draws. Also, that season Veracruz won their first title. In the season of 1947-1948 won their first Mexican Cup by beating Chivas 3-1. Soon Veracruz would win their second title in the season of 1949-1950, winning with an impresive win with the most goleada in the history of soccer leaving Monterrey 14-0. Years later Veracruz would get famous players such as René Higuita, Braulio Luna, Adolfo Rios, Luis Hernández, Fernando Arce, Alfredo Tena and others. After being relegated to the Primera Division A Veracruz came back in 2002 after being promoted as Primera Division A champions, they finished 11th place in the Verano of 2002. The Apertura 2004 season had been one of the best for Veracruz as they finished 1st place thanks to new signings such as Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Christian Giménez, Kléber Boas and others. Veracruz has had 59 managers so far as of 2008. In 2008 Veracruz defeated Club America 4-0 thanks to Claudio Graf and Rodrigo Ruiz. But in their next game, they lost 7-2 to CF Monterrey. The next game they would lose 2-0 to CF Puebla. Next, they would win 2-1 vs Chiapas, and finally on the night of Friday April 25, 2008 at Luis "Pirata" Fuente stadium (Home of Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz) at exactly 8:02 p.m. after a long 90 minute match, Pumas UNAM defeated Veracruz with a final score of 4-2, sending Veracruz to the Primera A division league. On the other hand, teams UANL Tigres & Puebla celebrated the news. Veracruz said goodbye and farewell to the Mexican Primera Division league on the night of Friday May 2, 2008 in the final match of the regular season against Tecos UAG ending in a 0-0 draw.

[edit] Current roster

[edit] Current Squad

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Jorge Bernal
2	DF	Franco Pepino
3	DF	Sindey Balderas
4	DF	Salustiano Candia
5	MF	Manuel López Mondragón
6	DF	Omar Briceño
8	MF	Cesáreo Victorino
9	FW	Aldo de Nigris
10	MF	Santiago Raymonda
11	MF	Ariel González
12	GK	Fabián Villaseñor
14	MF	Hugo García Velásquez
15	MF	Luis Ángel García
16	FW	Enrique Badillo Noyola
19	FW	Claudio Graf
20	GK	Ivan Marban

No.	Position	Player
22	MF	Carlos Cariño
23	MF	Rafael García
24	DF	Miguel Javid Hernández
25	MF	Alejandro Corona
26	MF	Omar Rivera
27	MF	Andony Hernández
28	DF	Mario Rosales Reynoso
30	FW	Francisco Bravo
31	MF	Miguel Zepeda
33	MF	Juan Pablo Alfaro
34	FW	Rodrigo Ruiz
36	MF	Salvador Silva
46	DF	Raúl Salinas
50	DF	David Sánchez Lagunes
95	GK	Alejandro Gallardo