UD Marbella

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UD Marbella
Full name	Unión Deportiva Marbella
Nickname(s)	Blanquillos
Founded	1997
Ground	Estadio Municipal de Marbella, Marbella, Andalusia, Spain (Capacity 9,000)
Chairman	Antonio Pérez Ramos
Manager	Oli
League	2ªB - Group 4
2007-08	2ªB - Group 4 15th
Home colours 　 Away colours

Unión Deportiva Marbella is a football team based in Marbella in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in 1997, it plays in Segunda División B - Group 4.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Other Marbella's teams 2 Stadium 3 Seasons 4 Current squad 5 Famous players 6 External links

[edit] History

Unión Deportiva Marbella was founded in 1997 immediately after the defunction of Club Atlético Marbella that was founded in 1959. CA Marbella was owned by Jesús Gil, also owner of Atlético Madrid.

[edit] Other Marbella's teams

• CD Marbella – (1941-1959)
• CA Marbella – (1959-1989)
• UD Marbella – (1972-1997)
• UA Marbella – (1989-1993)
• CA Marbella – (1993-1997)
• UD Marbella – (1997-currently)

[edit] Stadium

UD Marbella play their home games at Estadio Municipal de Marbella, which has a capacity of 9,000. It is a fairly basic oval-shaped stadium with one small covered stand.

• Google Map for Estadio Municipal de Marbella

[edit] Seasons

• 2004/2005: Segunda División B 5th
• 2005/2006: Segunda División B 12th
• 2006/2007: Segunda División B 7th
• 2007/2008: Segunda División B 15th
• 2008/2009: Segunda División B

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• 5 seasons in Segunda División B
• 5 seasons in Tercera División

[edit] Current squad

As of 3 March 2008

No. Position Player GK Ávila GK David Sánchez DF Álvaro DF Carlos Arias DF David Mata DF Ibón Díez DF Juan Ríos DF Keko DF Nando DF Valentín MF Carlos Rivera MF Chus López

No. Position Player MF Dani MF Jaime MF Lolo MF Ricardo MF Vergara FW Carl Cort FW Tommy Mooney FW Cristian Leroy FW Jabuti FW Quini FW Sosa

[edit] Famous players

Rubén Dario Larrosa Juan Ramón Comas Juan Antonio Crespin Tilico Predrag Jurić Simo Krunić Georgi Iordanov Drazenko Prskalo Sergio García Youssef Darbaki Richard Harris Julian Dowe Steve Wiley Ian Pearson Carl Cort (2008 - ) Andy Gray (1994-95)

Benigno Chaparro Ovidiu Cuc Kepa Blanco Zigor Aranalde Pacheta Olias Paulino Tomás Reñones Esteban Vigo Predrag Spasić Veljko Paunović Miloš Bursać Vladan Lukić Diego Aguirre Dani Fernandez

see also Cat:UD Marbella footballers

[edit] External links

• (English) UD Marbella Official English Website
• (Spanish) UD Marbella Official Spanish Website
• (Spanish) Some information about 2006/2007 UD Marbella

Segunda División B - Group 4 • 2008/09 clubs v • d • e

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