Hercules, the most important club in the city of Alicante, Twenty years in the Premier Leaguecommemorates the centennial of its founding this Thursday. worst moments in historyThis stage does not overshadow the sporting and social significance of the presence at the city, provincial and national level over the past century, as never before has it been so remote or exclusive.
Alicante team currently playing Second RFEFThe fourth category of Spanish football, One fifth of its history Legendary players of Spanish and world football passed through his roster.
Herculaneum legends
this world champions Mario Alberto Kempes and David Trezeguet, Olympic champion Francisco Veza ‘Paqui’, Ramón Marsal, Manolo Macía, Ramón Navarro, Luis Aragonés, Sergio Rodríguez, José Antonio Barrios, José Ignacio Churruca, Alfredo Megido, Pascual Luna Parra, Juan Antonio Carcelén Baena, Miodrag Kustodic, Abel Aguilar, Nelson Valdez, ‘Cacho’ Saccardi, Carmelo Giuliano or goalkeepers Miguel Ángel Santoro, Jan Tomaszewsky and the first Spanish national football player José Pérez to wear the Herculaneum jersey are just a few of them. Herculaneum legends.
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Moreover benches left their markTechnicians such as Arsenio Iglesias, Gaspar Rubio, Marcel Domingo, Antonio Ramallets, Alberto Ormaetxea, José Bordalás, César Rodríguez, Benito Joanet, Koldo Aguirre, Manolo Jiménez, Carlos Jurado, Antonio Torres, David Vidal, Carlo Mandiá, Josèta” Rojo Hernández is the coach who has managed the most matches.
Originally wearing a red and white shirt, Hercules officially celebrates his centenary this Thursday, the date when Alicante’s civil governor approved his founding charter, according to historians. The team had already played and competed at the local level a few years ago.
Centennial date: from El Chepa to Ortiz
presence Founded by Vicente Pastor Alfosea ‘El Chepa’ and was named after the Greek god to “respect” his rivals, according to his own creator. The club changed its colors to the existing blue and white, which was inherited from another team in the city, Swimming.
Hercules’ first golden age came in the mid-1930s, but the Civil War wreaked havoc on the entity, which lost several players and coaches during the war. In 1930, he finished second in amateur Spain after losing in the final against Sporting de Gijón in Montjuic.
Team replaced First with Second, At the Bardín and La Viña stadiums Third Place in the 40s, 50s and 60s, with some other crashes. In each of these decades, he appeared at least once in Chapter One.
Hercules’ heyday coincided with the arrival of José Rico Pérez as president in the early seventies. As part of his mandate, the club was consolidated in the First Division and in 1982 had a new stadium called Rico Pérez, which was also the venue for the World Cup. The team competed for eight consecutive seasons and finished fifth in the 1974-75 season.His best position ever, but UEFA option eluded him by goal difference.
It fell and rose again in the 1980s, but a period of instability began that led to Second B. In the 1990s, he had a new rise in presidency with Aniceto Benito. After becoming the category champion with a tremendous advantage in a season that broke all records, he succeeded in promoting to the Second Division in the 95-96 academic year and jumping to the First Division, the brightest in its history.
The club’s shareholder instability It caused the first stage to be temporary and Hercules returned to the Second B. During this period, the current maximum shareholder Alicante businessman came to the club. Enrique OrtizHe Only once in twenty-three years of rule was he able to promote Hercules to the First Division., in the 2010-11 season. Efe recalls that what initially seemed like a solution to a serious sports and economic crisis eventually drifted into the club’s darkest phase.
Hercules’ final step, by the elite in the 2010-11 season Resonating victory over Pep Guardiola’s Barcelona and like bright signatures Trezeguet, Rufete or ValdezAgain, it was short. The club, marked by numerous scandals, entered a negative spiral that resulted in three declines in a decade before reaching the Second RFEF.
The club has never before gone this long without setting foot in the Premier League or straying so far from the elite, so fans have faced massive opposition to the club’s biggest shareholder figure over the years. numerous scandals, such as alleged party buyouts, and numerous court proceedings and bankruptcy laws.
Alicante club passed the others sensitive momentsAs in the late sixties, it was at risk of disappearing due to the attacks of the Third Period and debts and defaults at the end of the last century, but these crises were never as long and deep as they are now.
Current Hercules is no longer the first team in its province at the sporting levelhas a maximum of five clubs in a category higher than its own and it has lost a certain weight in the Valencian Community, where it has become the second most important football asset.
The sad gift of Hercules, who placed seventh in the minor league after losing 3-1 on a visit to Valencia subsidiary this weekendIt somewhat obscures a celebration that claims above all historical and emotional heritage of an entity that has placed Alicante on the world football map.