482 minutes. 7 matches. 5 ownership. This is the current background for the Hercules squad in the First Division. Among those currently in command of Ángel Rodríguez, only one footballer knows what it’s like to play in the Spanish elite. midfielder Sergio MarcosAnother historic player who managed to return to professional football last year is the ‘chosen player’ signed from Racing de Santander.

The talented 30-year-old Castilian-La Mancha football player wants to repeat in Alicante what he achieved in Santander a year ago. In memory of 7 games in 2014-15, where he came after passing Atlético de Madrid, where he was one of the merits of Villarreal’s prolific youth academy. He initially debuted in Vallecas. Marcelino García Toral gave him the alternative and kept him in the top 11 for five consecutive weeks. After the duel against Rayo came Eibar, Real Madrid, Celta and Almería.. Despite losing only the first, he again played very little (several times against Espanyol and Athletic).

Lugo, Valladolid, and Cultural Leonesa in Part Two were his next targets. The level of competition has plummeted, but those seven moments on the pitch are remembered by the best of Spanish football, El Madrigal, Santiago Bernabéu or San Mamés. The stories you can tell in the Herculaneum locker room, which is now expected to be one of the criteria for making the leap into the First RFEF.

None of the rest of his current teammates made their debut in Spain’s top flight. Raúl Ruiz, Marcelo Djaló and Maxi Ribero have done it in Cyprus, Portugal and Argentina, but it’s an occasional contest in the last two cases and a few steps behind Spain in the first.

Seven more herculanos have reached the Second Division in their careers: Marcelo (79 games in Lugo and Extremadura), Harper (44 games in Malaga, Alcorcón and Cartagena), Cristian Cedrés (27 games in Las Palmas), Ander Vitoria (20 games) ). Logroñés), Raúl Ruiz (10 games during his first spell at Hércules), Felipe Chacartegui (9 games at Sevilla Atlético) and Manu Navarro (1 game at Rayo Vallecano). Others have their hats in the already extinct Second B or the recently created First and Second RFEF..

The Hercules team’s little experience within the elite represents a historically low number in existence yet unless upcoming signings change the landscape much.

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No Hercules in modern times has had a squad with so few games in the First Division.. Another symptom of the fall into the football catacombs where the club has been in for more than a decade.

In the 2021/22 season, Herculaneum players made 92 matches in the First Division (31 Álex Martínez, 16 Acuña, 11 Tano, José Manuel and Chuli, 9 Jesús Fernández, 2 Mario Ortiz and 1 Aketxe). In 2020/21 this figure was again significantly lower with Álex Martínez as the most experienced (86).

2019/20 Hercules advanced to 152 games in the top category (125 games in Division One) due to Alfaro’s presence as Blue and White. The rest consisted of Olavide (14), Falcón (5), Diego Benito (4), Íñiguez (3) and Samuel (1).

In the 2018/19 example, the statistics only pointed to 13 “golden” duels, so if the sports management of Herculaneum manages to close some companies with experience among the best in Spain, they may pass this season’s teamThe team, led by Lluís Planagumà, finished second in Segunda B’s Group 3 and were not promoted after losing in the playoffs against Ponferradina.

The fact that Paco Peña (128 games in the First Division) was exactly the current sporting director at the Alicante club from 2009 to 2018 puts the current team away from other squads lately. This year, Hercules will have to make up for this lack of experience more than ever.