Rayo Vallecano
Rayo Vallecano de Madrid S.A.D. is a Spanish football club from the city of Madrid 's Vallecas district. It was founded on 29 May 1924 as Agrupación Deportiva El Rayo and currently plays (2013 /14) in the Primera División, the first Spanish league.
The club is considered in Spain as a typical " lift team ", especially in the last twenty years the club has experienced many ups and downs. The main success of the association shall be the move into the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup in the 2000 /01 season. The club is twelve years played in the Primera División.
For the fans of the club, the anti-fascist group " Los Bukaneros " is as much as the Spanish punk band Ska -P, one of the club anthems written with the song "Como un Rayo ". This clear political orientation of the fans of the club you can Rayo Vallecano probably compare with FC St. Pauli in Germany.
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Known player
- Mexico Hugo Sánchez
- Bosnia and Herzegovina Elvir Bolić
- Álvaro Negredo Spain
- Spain Abel Resino
- Spain Gregorio Benito
- Spain Ricardo Gallego
- Andorra Ildefonso Lima
- Argentina Diego Klimowicz
- France Mohamed Diamé
- Brazil Iriney Santos da Silva
- Jorge Valdivia Chile
- England Laurie Cunningham
- Germany Gerhard Poschner
- Israel Idan Tal
- Netherlands Dave van den Bergh
- Russia Viktor Onopko
- Spain Ismael Urzaiz
- Spain Manuel Velázquez
- United States Kasey Keller
- Bosnia and Herzegovina Elvir Baljić
Women's team
The women's team of the club played in the seasons 2010/11 and 2011/12 UEFA Women's Champions League.