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Valencia CF

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Valencia Club de Fútbol (also known as Valencia, CF or just Valencia or Los Ches) is a team in the first division of the Spanish Football League.

Founded in 1919, Valencia CF is based in the city of Valencia, Spain. The team's home stadium is the 53, 000 seater Mestalla, which was opened in 1923.

Valencia CF won the Spanish title for the sixth time in May 2004, their second in three years.

Valencia CF won the UEFA Cup for the third time in 2004, tying four other teams for the most UEFA Cups won. After suffering recent tough losses in Europe in the finals of the UEFA Champions League in 2000 and 2001, the team was finally able to triumph in the finals of European play.

Thanks to good coaching, one of the best defences in world soccer, including the charismatic Italian Carboni and the fiery Argentinian Roberto Ayala, and an imaginative playmaker, young Pablo Aimar (also from Argentina), Valencia has grown into one of the world's great teams.

On June 1, 2004, Rafa Benitez stepped down as coach of Valencia amid rumors that he was headed to Liverpool F.C.; those rumors proved true, as he was hired by Liverpool two weeks later.

On June 8, 2004, Claudio Ranieri was named the new head coach, but following Valencia's failure to advance past the round of 32 in the UEFA Cup he was dismissed on 25 February 2005 and replaced by Antonio López .

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Honours

  • Spanish First Division Champions
    • 1941/42 1943/44 1946/47 1970/71 2001/02 2003/04
  • Spanish Cups
    • 1941 1949 1954 1967 1979 1999
  • Spanish Super Cup
    • 1999 2004
  • UEFA Cup (formerly Inter-Cities Fairs Cup)
    • 1961/62 1962/63 2003/04
  • European Cup Winners Cup
    • 1979/80
  • European Super Cup
    • 1980/81 2004/2005
  • UEFA Intertoto Cup
    • 1998

Notable Players


2004/2005 squad

Goalkeepers

    • Spain 1 - Santiago Cañizares Ruiz
    • Spain 13 - Andrés Palop Cervera
    • France 25 - Ludovic Butelle


Defenders

    • Brazil 3 - Fabio Aurelio Rodrigues
    • Argentina 4 - Roberto Fabián Ayala
    • Spain 5 - Carlos Marchena López
    • Portugal 12 - Marco Caneira
    • 15 - Amedeo Carboni
    • Spain 17 - David Navarro Pedrós
    • Spain 23 - Crístobal Emilio Torres Ruiz (Curro Torres)
    • 24 - Emiliano Moretti


Midfielders

    • Spain 6 - David Albelda Aliques
    • 7 - Stefano Fiore
    • Spain 8 - Rubén Baraja Vegas
    • Spain 14 - Vicente Rodríguez Guillén
    • France 16 - Mohamed Lamine Sissoko
    • Spain 19 - Francisco Joaquín Pérez Rufete
    • Argentina 21 - Pablo César Aimar
    • France 31 - Nicolas Karlamoff


Forwards

    • 9 - Bernardo Corradi
    • Spain 10 - Miguel Angel Angulo Valderrey
    • 11 - Marco Di Vaio
    • Spain 18 - Francisco Muñoz Llompart (Xisco)
    • Spain 20 - Miguel Ángel Ferrer Martínez (Mista)

External links

  • Official Website - available in English, Spanish, Valencian, and Japanese
  • http://www.ciberche.net - Fan website
  • http://www.che-uk.co.uk - Che-UK is the supporters club of Valencia CF fans living in the UK and Ireland
  • http://www.amunt-valencia.net - Amunt Valencia Web (in Spanish)

Last updated: 05-21-2005 05:05:37