Halcones Rojos
| Halcones Rojos Veracruz | |||
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| Leagues | Mexican League | ||
| Founded | 2003 | ||
| Arena | Auditorio Benito Juarez | ||
| Location | Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico | ||
| Team colors | Red, White, and Black |
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| President | Juan Manuel González | ||
| Head coach | Eddie Casiano | ||
| Ownership | Leonides Rodríguez Zorrilla | ||
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| Website | halconesrojos.com | ||
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Halcones Rojos Veracruz is a Mexican professional basketball team based in Veracruz.
After two successful seasons on the basketball team Halcones UV Xalapa, and seeing how the fans to the sport was growing in the state of Veracruz, it was decided to acquire a franchise for the city of Veracruz had a basketball team and so continue promoting the sport in Veracruz territory. On 1 May 2005 the official announcement was made, the birth of the Falcons Campus Veracruz Universidad Veracruzana (UV Hawks Veracruz). With this, the state of Veracruz and have two teams (both representing the UV) LNBP participating in the league of the country's largest basketball.
Putting together a team without a lot of planning and a little less than a month after starting the 2005 season, the RedHawks ( so Called by the governor Fidel Herrera Beltrán ) surprised the league to qualify for the play-off for second place in the South Zone . Under the orders of the Mexican coach Jose Luis "Satan" Creeks, and with an initial staff of 15 players: Karim Malpica, Oscar Castellanos, Alonso Izaguirre, Hector Martinez, Octavio Robles, Francisco Morales, Roberto Elicerio, Juan Escalante, Francisco Ibarra, Veracruz and Iván Hernández and Arnulfo Antonio Valenzuela Valenzuela, plus Americans Craig Jackson, Christopher Ferguson and Lataryl Williams, the RedHawks opened the season against the Red Wave of the Federal District with a defeat as a visitor, but the turned out to be the surprise team of the season in his debut campaign, being second in the South at the end of his first foray into the league. Remarkably, the three foreigners who began the season were changed by their poor performance and were replaced by the Americans also Antonio " La Chispa" Rivers, Carlus Groves and Jason Love Lawson. In the first round of the play-off, the feathered eliminated the Fresnillo Gambusinos by 3 games to 1, but the surprise ended when Leon Lechugueros defeated the RedHawks 4-0 in the semifinals of area.
For Season 2006, repeated 7 of the 15 players who participated in the campaign of 2005, which were : Oscar "El Diablo" Castellanos ( Team Captain ), Alonso Izaguirre, Francisco Morales, Francisco Ibarra and Veracruz Iván Hernández, Antonio Arnulfo Valenzuela and Valenzuela, and coach Jose Luis "Satan" Arroyos. The team was strengthened in all positions with 7 new additions, totaling a Roster of 14 players, including new acquisitions were : Jorge Rochin ( It came to be considered the best Mexican player in the 2005 season with Lechugueros Leon ), the Mexican-American Rafael Berumen (Sourced from the Fuerza Regia Monterrey ), the Mexican -American Daniel Anaya ( It came to shine with Barreteros Zacatecas ) and also Mexican-American José Escobedo (which had shone with UV Xalapa Falcons, but that was only a month on the computer) . Besides Americans Charles Edward Byrd ( Star in leagues in Brazil, Venezuela and France ), Eric Allen Strand ( Star in the Venezuelan league) and Terquin Mott ( Superstar in Venezuela ), but the team proved a total failure by not past the first round of the playoffs after falling 3 games to 2 against the Panthers of Aguascalientes at Auditorio " Benito Juárez" itself. Due to problems of indiscipline, the team never gave what was expected of him, being totally inconsistent during the regular season . Note that the only foreign player that was maintained throughout the season was Charles " Bird " Byrd since Eric Allen Strand Terquin Mott and caused low early in the season. Other foreigners who also spent time on the computer was the American Toraino Johnson, however this did not meet expectations and was dropped. Finally the other two foreign players who finished the season with the RedHawks were also American Justin Howard Bradford and Willie Davis Jr.
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