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Pontevedra Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. is a Spanish football team based in Pontevedra, in the autonomous community of Galicia. Founded in 1941 it currently plays in Segunda División B – Group 1, holding home matches at ''Estadio Municipal de Pasarón'', with a capacity of 12,000 seats. Having enjoyed its heyday in the 1960s, it even reached the First Division, leading it during November and December of 1965. The club was renowned at the top level for its performances against the bigger clubs, especially at home. Due to their history, fanbase, and stadium, ''los Granates'' are considered Galicia's third biggest club, behind Deportivo de La Coruña and Celta de Vigo, despite having spent the majority of recent decades in Spanish football's inferior categories. ==History== ''Pontevedra Club de Fútbol'' was founded in 1941, following the merge of the two top teams in the city at the moment: ''Eiriña'' and ''Alfonso C.F.'' The first president of the new club was Fernando Ponte Conde. Pontevedra promoted to La Liga in 1963 but was relegated a year after, managing to play again in the top flight between 1965 and 1970. During this time the fans coined the motto ''Hai que roelo'',〔The closest English idiom for ''Hai que roelo'' would possibly be "you have to bite the bullet". That is to say, "you have to bite the bullet if you want to defeat Pontevedra". A literal translation would be "one has to gnaw it".〕 in reference to the difficulties rival teams had when playing a strong side, who achieved a seventh place in 1966, adding an eighth two seasons later; midfielder Ignacio Martín-Esperanza and forwards Neme and Roldán were among the stars of this era, and years following the 1972–73 season saw the team more often then not struggling in lower categories, well into the 2000s. On 23 January 2007 Pontevedra was transformed into a ''Sociedade Anónima Deportiva'' (sporting Joint stock company), as required by Spanish law – this was a general measure introduced in order to revitalise the financial situation of professional football clubs. Yet, some risked disappearance as they could not face the cost involved in this transformation from "private" to "stock company".〔''Ley del Deporte 10/1990'', 15 October 1990〕〔''Real Decreto 1251/1999''; Sociedades Anónimas Deportivas, 16 July 1999〕 In the club's case this was made possible after then president, Nino Mirón, had purchased 52 per cent of the stock options; the club then added the letters "S.A.D." to its official name. The subsequent stated main goal of Pontevedra was to promote back to Segunda División, with the team having last appearing in the category in the 2004–05 campaign. Qualified for the promotion playoffs for the following three seasons, it always failed to go through. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pontevedra CF」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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