Real Betis Betis had four different managers. During the latter campaign, the club was the 37th-best followed team in Europe regarding average attendances. After many years of staving off relegation, Betis' 2008–09 season culminated with a 1–1 draw against Real Valladolid at home. With this outcome, the club finished 18th in the table and consequently was relegated to the second division. On 15 June 2009, over 65,000 "Beticos", including icons such as Rafael Gordillo, Del Sol, Hipólito Rincón, Julio Cardeñosa and others, joined the protest march in Sevilla with the slogan ""15-J Yo Voy Betis"" to let the majority owner Ruiz de
Names for association football which prohibits similar games back to at least that century. This commonality is reflected in the auxiliary languages Esperanto and Interlingua, which utilize "futbalo" and "football", respectively. In the first half of the 20th century, in Spanish and Portuguese, new words were created to replace "football" ("fútbol" in Spanish and "futebol" in Portuguese), "balompié" ("balón" and "pie" meaning "ball" and "foot") and "ludopédio" (from words meaning "game" and "foot") respectively. However, these words were not widely accepted and are now only used in club names such as Real Betis Balompié and Albacete Balompié. Aside from the name of the game