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Veracruz
Full name	Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz
Nickname(s)	Tiburones Rojos; (Red Sharks)
Founded	April 1943
Ground	Luis de la Fuente,; Veracruz, Veracruz; (Capacity: 30,000)
Chairman	Eduardo Césarman
Manager	Joaquín del Olmo
League	Liga de Ascenso
Apertura 2007	13th (league) relegated
Home colours	Away colours

Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz, known as Veracruz, is a Mexican professional football club. Veracruz plays in the Primera División A de México. The club was founded in 1943. Their nickname "Tiburones Rojos" means red sharks.

[edit] History

Veracruz was founded around April 1943. In their season of 1945-1946 Veracruz played 18 games with a streak of 14 wins and 4 draws. Also, that season Veracruz won their first title. In the season of 1947-1948 won their first Mexican Cup by beating Chivas 3-1. Soon Veracruz would win their second title in the season of 1949-1950, winning with an impressive win with the most goleada in the history of soccer leaving Monterrey 14-0. Years later Veracruz would get famous players such as René Higuita, Braulio Luna, Adolfo Rios, Luis Hernández, Fernando Arce, Alfredo Tena and others. After being relegated to the Primera Division A Veracruz came back in 2002 after being promoted as Primera Division A champions, they finished 11th place in the Verano of 2002. The Apertura 2004 season had been one of the best for Veracruz as they finished 1st place thanks to new signings such as Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Christian Giménez, Kléber Boas and others. Veracruz has had 59 managers so far as of 2008. In 2008 Veracruz defeated Club América 4-0 thanks to Claudio Graf and Rodrigo Ruiz. But in their next game, they lost 7-2 to CF Monterrey. The next game they would lose 2-0 to Puebla F.C.. Next, they would win 2-1 vs Chiapas, and finally on the night of Friday April 25, 2008 at Luis "Pirata" Fuente stadium (Home of Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz) at exactly 8:02 p.m. after a long 90 minute match, Pumas UNAM defeated Veracruz with a final score of 4-2, sending Veracruz to the Primera A division league. On the other hand, teams UANL Tigres & Puebla celebrated the news. Veracruz said goodbye and farewell to the Mexican Primera Division league on the night of Friday May 2, 2008 in the final match of the regular season against Tecos UAG ending in a 0-0 draw.

[edit] Honours

Primera División:2
- 1945-46, 1949-50
Primera División A:1
- 2001
Mexican Cup: 1
- 1947-48

[edit] Current squad

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Jorge Bernal
3	DF	José Ignacio Pallas
4	DF	Jorge Alberto Campos
5	DF	Ernesto Serrato
6	MF	José Luis Hernández
7	DF	Octavio Valdez
8	MF	Félix Ángel Ayala
9	FW	Francisco Bravo
10	FW	Aílton da Silva
11	FW	Bruno Gomes
13	DF	Miguel Ángel Valdez
14	MF	Hugo García (Vice-Captain)
15	MF	Alberto Arvizu
16	DF	Luis Ángel García
17	FW	Aarón Padilla

No.	Position	Player
18	MF	Alejandro Molina
19	FW	Omar Tejeda
20	FW	Juan Adriel Ochoa
21	DF	Héctor Altamirano (Vice-Captain)
22	FW	Luis Efrén Hernández
23	MF	José Alejandro Aguilar
24	MF	Juan Manuel Garza
25	GK	Rogelio Rodríguez
26	DF	Ángel Sosa
36	MF	Aurelio Molina (Captain)
40	GK	Julio César Alarcón
45	MF	Isaác Rivera
63	FW	Eric Cruz
65	FW	David Acuña
-	MF	Cuauhtémoc Blanco