Castillo

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Castillo
Nation Candelaria And Marquez
Population



82,000
(Census Esimate 2005)
8,036,000
(UN Estimate 2007)
Representatives


Council Leader Damian Baena (MNP),
Castillo MotH, Jimmy Isgren (MNP)

Castillo is a town in Candelaria And Marquez located several miles to the south-east of El din.

The town was founded by Spanish settlers in 1788, becoming an important market town for the local farming communities.

In later years, Castillo reacted to the collapse of many of Marquez’ traditional industries better than most towns in the region, which accounts for its rapid growth in the second half of the twentieth century. It became a major transport hub, and until recently the bulk of the country’s public transport was constructed here.

Castillo remains an engineering powerhouse, though the town’s employment base is very diverse. Publishing is an important industry, with the town an important area for the Spanish language and Hispanic culture within Marquez. Indeed, Castillo is arguably the most Hispanic large settlement in the Candelarias; around 82% of the town’s population speak Spanish as their first language.

Hispanic-based Marquezian nationalism dominates the political scene of the town and the surrounding area, with the Marquez National Party having one of their two regional MotHs in the town and controlling the City Council.

Football

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The Cuadrado del Tenorio, featuring two of the town’s most
famous landmarks; El Viejo Árbol Grande and El Hombre en el Caballo.
</div>Castillo is probably best known, even in the Candelarias, for its football club; Castillo United FC. Ironically; of any large towns Castillo’s football pedigree is arguably the least impressive with a variety of sides having struggled to impose themselves on the professional game. Castillo United (generally know then and now as Castillo FC) were formed by a union of several clubs in the early 1970s, just in time for the national league of the time to collapse. Under semi-legendary coach Dario Meske, the club were an important amateur side as the country’s football community began to knit itself back together in the early eighties. They reached the semi-finals of the new CMS Cup twice, in 1987 and 1989 before turning professional again and again reaching the semis in 1995. With that latter result and with Meske having guided the club into the CMSC’s top division; local footwear tycoon Luis Gerardo Movilla took his chance to invest in his boyhood club. The financing of player wages surpassed even the efforts of Laurence Adamczyk at KT Hotspur, and coupled with Meske’s astute
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The Estadio de Movilla del Candalarias Online.
</div>man-management; Castillo FC rapidly became one of the country’s leading clubs, if not the leading force.

They won the title in the 97/98, 99/00 and 01/02 seasons, finishing runners-up in 98/99 and 00/01 and winning the CMS Cup in 01/02 to ‘do the double’. During this period, the gigantes moved into a new, 25,000-seater home at the Estadio Movilla.

The good times came to an abrupt halt after the well-earned retirement of Meske in 2002. In his absence, the club brought in a string of managers; none of whom could bring the club into the top half of the table until the arrival of Jacob Wilson in early 2005. The red-and-black-clad side finished fifth the next season and seventh the next; never in the title race proper but showing consistent ability.

After an initial struggle, Wilson guided the club to fifth in the league in the XXV season; with the previous year’s league Young Player of the Year, striker Rex Sandstrom, and C&M national team squad player, winger Joey Pipes spearheading the attack. The emergence of impressive youngsters in goalkeeper Felix Currey, midfielder Carroll Eriksson and striker Leonard Pinto will help their bid next year, but the squad looks thin if there are no more introductions to come.