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Real Sociedad
Full name	Real Sociedad de Fútbol
Nickname(s)	txuri-urdin
Founded	1909
Ground	Anoeta, San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain
Capacity	32,000
Chairman	Image:Flag of Spain.svg Miguel Fuentes Azpiroz
Manager	Image:Flag of Spain.svg Miguel Ángel Lotina
League	La Liga
2005-06	La Liga, 16th
Home colours 　 Away colours

Real Sociedad is a Spanish football club from the Basque city of San Sebastián/Donostia in Guipúzcoa/Gipuzkoa. Founded on September 17 1909, it currently plays in La Liga.

Known in Basque as Erreala or the txuri-urdin ("white-blue" in Basque), from their colors: blue with white vertical stripes and white shorts. A blue quarter on white also appears in the flag of their home town. The home stadium is the Estadio Anoeta, which seats 32,000 spectators.

Contents 1 History 2 Trophies 3 Current squad 2006/07 4 Statistics 2005/06 5 Famous players 6 Famous Coaches 7 External links

[edit] History

Football was introduced to Donostia in the early 1900s by students and workers returning from Britain. In 1904 they formed the San Sebastian Recreation Club and in 1905 they competed in the Copa del Rey. In May 1905 the San Sebastian Football Club was formed as a separate branch of the club. In 1909 they applied to enter the Copa del Rey but complications over registration permits saw them compete as Club Ciclista de San Sebastian. This team beat Club Español de Madrid 3-1 in the final. Out of the confusion the Sociedad de Futbol was formed on September 7th, 1909. In 1910 Spanish clubs played in two rival cup competitions and Sociedad de Futbol entered the Copa UECF as Vasconia de San Sebastian. In the same year Alfonso XIII, who used San Sebastian as his summer capital, gave the club his patronage. They subsequently became known as Real Sociedad de Fútbol. Real Sociedad were founder members of La Liga in 1928. The team came fourth with Francisco "Cuqui" Bienzobas finishing as top scorer. The teams name was changed to Donostia Club de Futbol in 1931, with the advent of the Second Spanish Republic, but changed back to Real Sociedad after the Spanish Civil War in 1939.

The team has generally fluctuated between the Primera and Segunda divisions, in one period (during the 1940s) managing to be relegated and promoted seven times. The best period of the team's history must be the early 1980s where they won the Primera two seasons running.

For many years, Real Sociedad followed the practice of their Basque rival Athletic Bilbao of signing only Basque players. They abandoned the policy in 1989 when they signed Irish international John Aldridge from Liverpool. Real Sociedad's best league performance in recent years is their 2nd place finish in La Liga in 2002-03. Key contributors to that side included a Serb (Darko Kovacevic), a Turk (Nihat Kahveci), a Russian (Valeri Karpin), and a Dutch goalkeeper (Sander Westerveld).

[edit] Trophies

• Copa del Rey:2
  • 1909 and 1987
• Copa del Rey:Runners-Up:2
  • 1928 and 1988
• Primera División:2
  • 1981 and 1982
• Primera División:Runners-Up:3
  • 1980, 1988 and 2003.
• Spanish Super Cup::1
  • 1983

[edit] Current squad 2006/07

The numbers are established according to the official website: www.realsociedad.com and www.lfp.es. The EU flags indicate players who, although foreign, are still members of the European Economic Community, thus the club is not restricted in player such foreigners.

As of August 19 2006

No. Position Player 1 Image:Flag of Spain.svg GK Riesgo 2 Image:Flag of Spain.svg MF Gerardo 3 Image:Flag of Spain.svg DF Mikel González 4 Image:Flag of Spain.svg MF Diego Rivas 5 Image:Flag of Spain.svg DF Juanito 6 Image:Flag of Spain.svg DF Labaka 7 Image:Flag of Spain.svg MF Jesuli 8 Image:Flag of Spain.svg MF Garitano 9 Image:Flag of Serbia (state) (bordered).svg FW Kovacevic 10 Image:Flag of Spain.svg MF Novo 11 Image:Flag of Spain.svg MF Aranburu 12 Image:Flag of Denmark.svg FW Skoubo

No. Position Player 14 Image:Flag of Spain.svg DF López Rekarte 15 Image:Flag of Spain.svg DF Ansotegi 16 Image:Flag of Spain.svg FW Gari Uranga 17 Image:Flag of Brazil.svg DF Rossato 18 Image:Flag of Spain.svg DF Cifuentes 19 Image:Flag of Spain.svg DF Garrido 20 Image:Flag of Portugal.svg MF Fábio Felício 21 Image:Flag of Slovenia.svg MF Stevanovic 22 Image:Flag of Spain.svg MF Mikel Alonso 23 Image:Flag of Spain.svg FW Díaz de Cerio 24 Image:Flag of Spain.svg MF Xabier Prieto 25 Image:Flag of Chile (bordered).svg GK Claudio Bravo

[edit] Statistics 2005/06

La Liga	Position	Pts	P	W	D	L	F	A
Real Sociedad	16	40	38	11	7	20	48	65

• Top Scores:
  • Xabi Prieto - 9 goals
  • Nihat - 7 goals
  • Mark Gonzalez - 5 goals
• Top Goalkeepers
  • Riesgo - 56 goals In 33 Matchs
  • Alberto - 9 goals In 6 Matchs

[edit] Famous players

Image:Flag of Argentina.svg Juan Gómez Image:Flag of Austria.svg Dietmar Kühbauer Image:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Frédéric Peiremans Image:Flag of Brazil.svg Biurrun Image:Flag of Brazil.svg Luiz Alberto Image:Flag of Brazil.svg Julio Cesar Santos Correa Image:Flag of Brazil.svg Adriano Fabiano Rossato Image:Flag of Chile (bordered).svg Image:Flag of South Africa.svg Mark González Image:Flag of Colombia.svg Victor Bonilla Image:Flag of Croatia.svg Igor Cvitanović Image:Flag of England (bordered).svg Dalian Atkinson Image:Flag of England (bordered).svg Kevin Richardson Image:Flag of France.svg Lionel Potillon Image:Flag of France.svg Jérémie Bréchet Image:Flag of Georgia (bordered).svg Georgi Demetradze Image:Flag of Ireland (bordered).svg John Aldridge Image:Flag of Lithuania.svg Edgaras Jankauskas

Image:Flag of Madagascar.svg Image:Flag of France.svg Stéphane Collet Image:Flag of Mexico.svg Luis García Postigo Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Sander Westerveld Image:Flag of Nigeria.svg Mutiu Adepoju Image:Flag of Norway.svg Bjørn Tore Kvarme Image:Flag of Portugal.svg Oceano da Cruz Image:Flag of Portugal.svg Ricardo Sá Pinto Gheorghe Craioveanu Image:Flag of Russia (bordered).svg Valeri Karpin Image:Flag of Russia (bordered).svg Dmitri Khokhlov Image:Flag of Serbia (state) (bordered).svg Darko Kovačević Image:Flag of Serbia (state) (bordered).svg Dragan Mladenović Image:Flag of South Korea (bordered).svg Lee Chun-Soo Image:Flag of Spain.svg Xabi Alonso Image:Flag of Spain.svg Mikel Alonso Image:Flag of Spain.svg Agustín Aranzábal Image:Flag of Spain.svg Luis Arconada

Image:Flag of Spain.svg Mariano Arrate Image:Flag of Spain.svg Mikel Arteta Image:Flag of Spain.svg José Mari Bakero Image:Flag of Spain.svg Txiki Beguiristain Image:Flag of Spain.svg Goikoetxea Image:Flag of Spain.svg Alberto Górriz Image:Flag of Spain.svg Juan Antonio Larrañaga Image:Flag of Spain.svg Roberto López Ufarte Image:Flag of Spain.svg Javier de Pedro Image:Flag of Spain.svg Jesús María Satrústegui Image:Flag of Spain.svg Urruti Image:Flag of Spain.svg Jesus Maria Zamora Image:Flag of Sweden.svg Håkan Mild Image:Flag of Sweden.svg Mattias Asper Image:Flag of Turkey.svg Arif Erdem Image:Flag of Turkey.svg Nihat Kahveci Image:Flag of Turkey.svg Tayfun Korkut

see also Cat:Real Sociedad footballers

[edit] Famous Coaches

• Image:Flag of Wales (bordered).svg John Toshack, 1985-1989, 1991-1994, 2001-2002
• Image:Flag of Spain.svg Javier Irureta, 1995-1997
• Image:Flag of Spain.svg Javier Clemente, 1999-2000

see also Cat:Real Sociedad managers

[edit] External links

• (Spanish) (Basque) Real Sociedad Official Website
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