Albacete Balompié

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Albacete Balompié
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Basic data
Surname Albacete Balompié SAD
Seat Albacete , Spain
founding 1940
president Rafael Candel
Website albacete-bp.es
First soccer team
Head coach Antonio Gómez Pérez
Venue Estadio Carlos Belmonte
Places 17,300
league Segunda División
2019/20 17th place, Segunda División
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Albacete Balompié is a football club from the city of Albacete in the province of the same name in Spain . He plays in the Segunda División , the second highest division in Spain. In the early 1990s, the club was represented in the Primera División for half a decade .

history

The Albacete Balompié association was founded on August 1, 1940, and only nine years after it was founded, it made short-term promotion to the Segunda División until it disappeared for a long time. The club only made a name for itself again in the years between 1989 and 1996. At that time, they managed to march straight through from the third highest division, the Segunda División B , to the first class of the Primera División. The second division championship of 1991 was followed by an equally remarkable 7th place in the House of Lords of Spanish football the following year. The father of the success, coach Benito Floro , who knew how to build a functioning collective around his star, playmaker José Luis Zalazar , was recruited by no less a club than Real Madrid in the following season . Since then, Alba , as the loyal supporters call the team, has only played a subordinate role in the Primera División, but has been able to maintain its first class for another 4 years.

A wave of emigration of great talent, u. a. Fernando Morientes , who was still responsible for the close relegation in the 1994/95 season, ultimately led to the club having to return to the second division in 1996. There, too, Alba achieved only mixed results after the narrowly missed direct re-promotion in 1997, and just when the mediocrity was slowly being resigned, the team succeeded in re-promotion in 2003. Another two years in the first division followed before the club was relegated again in 2005. Since then, Alba has seen himself as a favorite, which they could not do justice to in the 2005/06 season when they had to make do with 13th place. Since relegation to the third division after the 2010/11 season, the club has struggled with financial problems. On December 8, 2011 it was announced that Andrés Iniesta , who played for Albacete Balompié until he was 12, had bought 7,000 shares valued at € 420,000. This makes him the main shareholder. The club's training ground is also named after Iniesta.

player

Goalkeepers Manuel Almunia , José Francisco Molina , Carlos Roa

Defenders Delfí Geli , Pablo Ibáñez , Fernando Navarro , Aitor Ocio

Midfielder Emmanuel Amuneke , Nenad Bjelica , Marco Etcheverry , Oscar García , Mark González , Iván Helguera , Cătălin Munteanu , José Luis Zalazar , Andrés Iniesta

Attackers Fernando Morientes , Ismael Urzaiz , Javi Guerrero , Antonio Pinilla , Antonio Pacheco , Diego Costa

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