FOOTBALL
History
On 20th June 1928, Real Valladolid Deportivo was born from the merger of two Vallisoletan clubs: Real Unión Deportiva and Club Deportivo Español.
The first match was held on 22nd September 1928 at the Campo de la Sociedad Taurina (next to the town’s bullring) against Alavés, with a 2-1 victory. The club’s first ever goal was scored by Sainz. The first president was Pedro Zuloaga Mañueco and the first coach, Hungarian Esteban Platko.
In the first official match (Regional Championship), Real Valladolid beat the U.D. Burgos 12-0.
In the first Spanish League system (28/29), the Federation placed Real Valladolid in Group B of the Second Division, where they finished in 5th place.
The club colours are violet and white stripes. The team plays in La Liga, holding home games at the Estadio José Zorrilla, which seats 27,846 spectators.
Valladolid’s honours include a single trophy of great relevance, the defunct Copa de la Liga 1983-84. It has been runner-up in the Copa del Rey on two occasions (1949-50 and 1988-89), and has participated in two editions of the UEFA Cup (1984-85 and 1997-98) and also one edition of the UEFA Cup Winners Cup (1989-90).
The team subsidiary - Real Valladolid B - currently play in the Segunda División B.
Since its La Liga debut in the 1948-49 season - in which it became the first club from the region to play in La Liga (five others have since done so) - Valladolid is the most successful football club in Castile and León by honours and history, with a total of 44 seasons in the First Division, 35 in the Second and 10 in the Third. Historically, Valladolid is the 12th-best team in Spain by overall league points. Two of its players have won the Pichichi Trophy: Manuel Badenes and Jorge da Silva; and ten have been internationals with the national team.
On 3rd September 2018, it was announced that Brazilian former international footballer Ronaldo Nazario had become the majority shareholder after purchasing a 51% controlling stake in the club. As of April 2020, Ronaldo owned 82% of the club shares.
52 PC April/May 2021
From my point of view, it possesses all the good attributes of a hybrid and a natural pitch, but is devoid of the handicaps of both
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city council to irrigate the local parks, gardens, and the needs of our stadium and Sports City. It is slightly alkaline, but the quality is acceptable. We perform water analysis every three to four months, as well as soil and leaf analyses.
Number of training surfaces?
The facilities we have at the club include two natural grass pitches and the stadium pitch for the first team, and two synthetic grass pitches for Team B and the lower categories. The first team, until October 2020, had only one training pitch plus the stadium. This training camp was built around 1982 and has had a lot of use, with 4-6 sessions per week. The drainage system was failing and would struggle to cope with continuous rainfall.
Since then, we have been able to rotate training between a new second natural grass pitch and the existing pitch. The sports city project will provide more natural and synthetic grass fields, a mini stadium, buildings for the club's teams and offices, plus a renovated and well-designed facility for the surfaces maintenance crew. Apart from the first team pitches, we support and advise on the maintenance of another municipal natural grass pitch in a neighbouring town, which is the current training headquarters of the second team, which also has a synthetic pitch. This B team - Real Valladolid Promesas - plays their matches on the old training ground of the first team. Finally, at the end of 2020, we finished building in another area of the
present sports city a new artificial pitch for the schools and lower categories of Real Valladolid C.F., replacing the original natural pitch. More than 500 children had used this pitch.
What tasks are carried out at the end of the season?
It depends on several factors. We usually triple or quadruple scarify with the Amazone scarifier, taking out 80% of the existing plant. This is followed by some form of aeration and a substantial topdress. Recently, we have been overseeding with Poa pratensis alone at the beginning of summer, as it develops better than the ryegrass in the heat, and later we reseed with Perennial Ryegrass in early autumn and the rest of the year.
This has not yet been the case but, if possible and summer events leave sufficient time for regeneration, I would like to use the Koro Field Top Maker. The stadium mesh is disposable and the price is negligible. It can be maintained or removed with the Koro and placed back again before overseeding. This season, the rapid renovation was carried out by scarification, hollow coring and overseeding. The pitch has responded in an exemplary way, maintaining excellent health, and it is not easy to find a Poa Annua plant in it. It's now two years since it was constructed and we could not be more satisfied.
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