Recreativo de Huelva

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Full name

Real Club Recreativo de Huelva

Nickname(s)

Recre
El Decano (The Dean)

Founded

December 23, 1889
(as Huelva Recreation Club)

Ground

Nuevo Colombino,
Huelva, Andalucia,
Spain
(Capacity 19,860)

Chairman

Francisco Mendoza

Manager

Manolo Zambrano

League

La Liga

2007-08

La Liga, 16th





Home colours





Away colours

Real Club Recreativo de Huelva is a Spanish football team formed on December 23, 1889. This makes it the oldest surviving football team in Spain, formed by Dr Alexander Mackay and overseas British workers at the Rio Tinto mines. Originally named Huelva Recreation Club. Due to its long-standing existence (it is the oldest surviving team of Spanish professional football), the team is often referred to as El Decano ("the oldest one") of the Spanish football fraternity.

Commonly known as Recre, they play in white with blue vertical stripes and white shorts. Their home ground is the Nuevo Colombino stadium that seats 19,860. They have hosted the Trofeo Colombino there since 1965.

After three seasons in Segunda División (Spanish second division), Recre achieved promotion to top flight after beating Numancia on June 4, 2006, mathematically securing promotion with two matches left to be played.

1 Season 2006-2007
2 Honours
3 Current squad
- 3.1 Non-EU foreigners 2006/07
4 Famous players
5 Famous coaches
6 External links

[edit] Season 2006-2007

The new season in the Spanish top-flight has been a surprising one for the club. They finished the season sitting eighth in the table at 54 points. Among the victories was a 3-0 win against Real Madrid at the Bernabeu and 2-0 against Valencia. The clubs leading goalscorer was Florent Sinama-Pongolle with 12 goals to his name. The clubs coach Marcelino García Toral announced on May 30, 2007 that he would leave the club at the end of the season. He had success in his tenure with Recre, guiding them from Segunda División to the Spanish top-flight.

"Everything in life has a beginning and an end, and this is the moment to end my time at Recre," Marcelino told a news conference.

This fueled speculation in June 2007 that Recreativo had offered Danish legend Michael Laudrup a contract to coach the club in the new season 2007-2008. According to Laudrup's agent, the negotiations were ongoing and "very serious." However Laudrup turned down the offer, and took the vacant manager's job at Getafe CF in July 2007. 2007-2008 season was difficult for them and they remained in La Liga after drawing with Real Valladolid by 1-1 at Round 38. Also, Real Mallorca's 3-2 winning against Real Zaragoza, who relegated to Segunda Liga, secured 16th position.

[edit] Honours

Champions of Andalucía from 1903 to 1914.
Reached Primera División for 1978-79 (under coach Eusebio Ríos), 2002-2003 (under coach Lucas Alcaraz) and 2005-2006 (under coach Marcelino Garcia Toral).
Defeated finalists in Copa del Rey in 2003.

[edit] Current squad

The numbers are established according to the official website:www.recreativohuelva.com and www.lfp.es

As of January 27, 2008

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Stefano Sorrentino
2	DF	Edu Moya
3	DF	Dani Bautista
4	DF	Martín Cáceres (loan from Villarreal CF)
5	DF	Iago Bouzón
6	MF	Gerard
7	MF	Marcos (loan from Villarreal CF)
8	FW	Javier Camuñas
9	FW	Ersen Martin
10	MF	Jesús Vázquez
11	FW	Laurenţiu Roşu
12	MF	Carlos Martins
13	GK	José Antonio Luque

No.	Position	Player
14	FW	Florent Sinama-Pongolle
15	FW	Edwin Congo
16	DF	Quique Álvarez
17	MF	Rafael Barber
18	FW	Marco Rubén (loan from Villarreal CF)
19	FW	Silvestre Varela (loan from Sporting)
20	DF	Poli
21	MF	Aitor (captain)
22	DF	Beto
23	FW	Javi Guerrero
24	DF	Pampa Calvo (loan from Boca Juniors)
25	GK	Mariano Barbosa
28	MF	Jose Ignacio Zahinos

[edit] Non-EU foreigners 2006/07

In the Spanish league only three non-EU nationals can be registered and given a squad number for the first team. Those with European ancestry can claim a passport from the nation their ancestors came from. If a player does not have European ancestry he can claim a Spanish passport by playing in Spain for 3 years.

In addition, players from the ACP countries—countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific that are signatories to the Cotonou Agreement—are not counted against non-EU quotas, due to the Kolpak ruling. However, Recre currently have no players on their first-team squad who are ACP nationals.