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Rafa Muñoz
Rafael "Rafa" Francisco Muñoz González (born 21 March 1966) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a midfielder, and a manager. Club career Born in Málaga, Andalusia, Muñoz graduated from CD Málaga's youth setup. He made his senior debuts with the reserves, spending several seasons in the Tercera División. On 9 November 1986, Muñoz played his first match as a professional, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 1–1 away draw against Hércules CF in the Segunda División. His spell was mainly registered with the B-side, however. In the 1989 summer, Muñoz moved to Hércules CF, being an ever-present figure during his spell at the club. He subsequently returned to Málaga in 199, and resumed his career in the Segunda División B, but also in the fourth level, representing Cartagena FC, Benidorm CF, Lorca Deportiva CF and Ciudad de Murcia; he retired with the latter in 2002, aged 35. Manager career Shortly after retiring, Muñoz started his managerial career ...
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Málaga
Málaga (; ) is a Municipalities in Spain, municipality of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia. With a population of 591,637 in 2024, it is the second-most populous city in Andalusia and the Ranked lists of Spanish municipalities#By population, sixth most populous in the country. It lies in Southern Iberian Peninsula, Iberia on the Costa del Sol ("Coast of the Sun") of the Mediterranean, primarily in the left bank of the Guadalhorce. The urban core originally developed in the space between the Gibralfaro, Gibralfaro Hill and the Guadalmedina. Málaga's history spans about 2,800 years, making it one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation#Europe, oldest continuously inhabited cities in Western Europe. According to most scholars, it was founded about 770BC by the Phoenicians from Tyre, Lebanon, Tyre as ''Malaka''. From the 6th centuryBC the city was under the hegemony of Ancient Cartha ...
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Midfielder
In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As #Central midfielder, central midfielders often go across boundaries, with mobility and passing ability, they are often referred to as deep-lying midfielders, play-makers, box-to-box midfielders, or holding midfielders. There are also attacking midfielders with limited defensive assignments. The size of midfield units on a team and their assigned roles depend on which Formation (association football), formation is used; the unit of these players on the pitch is commonly referred to as the midfield. Its name derives from the fact that midfield units typically make up the in-between units to the Defender (association football), defensive units and Forward (association football), forward units of a F ...
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Spanish Men's Footballers
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Footballers From Málaga
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby league, and rugby union. It has been estimated that there are 250 million association football players in the world, and many play other forms of football. Career Jean-Pierre Papin has described football as a "universal language". Footballers across the world and at almost any level may regularly attract large crowds of spectators, and players are the focal points of widespread social phenomena such as association football culture. Footballers usually begin as amateurs and the best players progress to become professional players. Normally they start at a youth team (any local team) and from there, based on skill and talent, scouts offer contracts. Once signed, some learn to play better football and a few advance to the senior or profession ...
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1966 Births
Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo is deposed by a military coup in the Republic of Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso). * January 10 ** Pakistani–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of the Tashkent Declaration, a day before the sudden death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. ** Georgia House of Representatives, The House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia refuses to allow African-American representative Julian Bond to take his seat, because of his anti-war stance. * January 15 – 1966 Nigerian coup d'état: A bloody military coup is staged in Nigeria, deposing the civilian government and resulting in the death of Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. * January 17 ** The Nigerian coup is overturned by another faction of the ...
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2013–14 Segunda División B
The 2013–14 Segunda División B season was the 37th since its establishment. The first matches of the season were played on 25 August 2013, and the season ended on 22 June 2014 with the promotion play-off finals. Summary before the 2013–14 season 2013 Segunda División B play-offs, Playoffs de Ascenso: * CD Tenerife 2013–14 Segunda División, (P) * CD Leganés * Real Oviedo * Caudal Deportivo * Deportivo Alavés 2013–14 Segunda División, (P) * SD Eibar 2013–14 Segunda División, (P) * Athletic Bilbao B, Bilbao Athletic * Lleida Esportiu * CE L'Hospitalet * Huracán Valencia CF * Levante UD B * CD Alcoyano * Real Jaén 2013–14 Segunda División, (P) * FC Cartagena * Albacete Balompié * Lucena CF Relegated from 2012–13 Segunda División, Segunda División: * CD Guadalajara (Spain), CD Guadalajara * Racing de Santander * SD Huesca * Xerez CD Promoted from 2013 Tercera División play-offs, Tercera División: * Racing de Ferrol (from 2012–13 Tercera Divisió ...
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Segunda División B
Segunda División B (English: second division B) was the third tier of the Spanish football league system containing 102 teams divided into five groups, until it was replaced by the new structure in 2021. It was administered by the Royal Spanish Football Federation. It was below the top two professional leagues, the ''Primera División'' (also known as La Liga) and the ''Segunda División'', and above the ''Tercera División''. The Segunda División B included the reserve teams of a number of La Liga and Segunda División teams. As of the 2023–24 in Spanish football, 2023-24 season, its successors are the Primera Federación and the Segunda Federación. The league's last ever season was in 2020-21 Segunda División B, 2020-21. For the 2021–22 season, Segunda División B was replaced by Segunda División RFEF, which became the fourth tier due to the creation of a new, semi-professional third division by the Spanish federation (RFEF) called the Primera División RFEF. History ...
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El Mundo Deportivo (newspaper)
''Mundo Deportivo'' (; ) is a Spanish nationwide daily sports newspaper published in Barcelona. History and profile ''Mundo Deportivo'' was first published on 1 February 1906, as a weekly newspaper, and since 1929 daily. It is the oldest sports newspaper still published in Spain, and the second one in Europe, after the Italian ''La Gazzetta dello Sport'' which was founded in 1896. ''Mundo Deportivo'' is published in Barcelona by Grupo Godó. The group also owns ''La Vanguardia''. It focuses primarily on the performances of FC Barcelona, but also covers the Spanish basketball league ( ACB), Grand Prix motorcycle racing, Formula One car racing, amongst others. Both ''Mundo Deportivo'' and ''Sport'' are the predominant sources of sports news in Catalonia Catalonia is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationalities and regions of Spain, nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006, Statute of Autonomy. Most of its territory (except the Val ...
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Segunda División
The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Segunda División, commonly known as Segunda División or La Liga 2, and officially known as LaLiga HyperMotion for sponsorship reasons, is the men's second professional association football division of the Spanish football league system. Administered by , it is contested by 22 teams, with the top two teams plus the winner of a La Liga play-offs, play-off Promotion and relegation, promoted to La Liga and replaced by the three lowest-placed teams in that division. History The Second Division National Championship was inaugurated concurrently with the La Liga, First Division, during the 1928-29 season. This setup comprised twenty teams divided into two groups: A and B. Group A functioned as the secondary national level, where the leading team would contest promotion to the First Division and the bottom two faced relegation to the Third Division. Conversely, Group B represented the third tier, wherein two teams were promoted to the Second Divisio ...
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Substitute (association Football)
In association football, a substitute is a player who is brought on to the pitch during a match in exchange for an existing player. Substitutions are generally made to replace a player who has become tired or injured, or who is performing poorly, or for tactical reasons (such as bringing a striker on in place of a defender). A player who has been substituted during a match takes no further part in the game, in games played under the standard International Football Association Board Laws of the Game. Substitutions were officially added to the Laws of the Game in 1958. Prior to this most games were played with no changes permitted at all, with occasional exceptions in cases of extreme injury or players not arriving to matches on time. The number of substitutes has risen over time as well as the number of reserve players allowed to be nominated. It is now common for games to allow a maximum of 5 substitutions; some competitions allow for an additional substitution when playing ex ...
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