Enrique Cerezo
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Enrique Cerezo is a cinematographic producer and the president of Club Atlético de Madrid from 2002.
[edit] Cinematographic career
Enrique Cerezo begins in the cinema in 1971 like an assistant of camera in movie Vente a Alemania, Pepe. Three years later he directs to his only film La sonrisa del sol: Almería.
As producing of cinema he is the owner of Enrique Cerezo - Cinematographic Productions and he produced many films. The most famous films produced by Enrique Cerezo are El perro del hortelano, La buena estrella, Pídele cuentas al rey, Yoyes, Juana la Loca and La vida de nadie.
[edit] Presidency of Atlético Madrid
After the ascent of the club to the First Division in 2002, Jesús Gil decides to leave the presidency of the organization, although her family continues controlling it and decide to designate presidency to Enrique Cerezo, appreciating his collaboration in the club during many years.
In the first season, the club made several transfers of certain reputation players like Javi Moreno, Demetrio Albertini and Fabricio Coloccini coming from the AC Milan, but the club finished the season in the twelfth position.
In the season of 2003-04, the club changed the coach, stopping Luis Aragonés and contracting with Gregorio Manzano. Great part of the deals of the previous season leave the club, and in this year, the arrived players are like Diego Simeone, Ariel Ibagaza and Lequi. The club finished in seventh position, but making a poor game.
In the season of 2004-2005, the club changed the coach again, the new coach of the rojiblanco is César Ferrando and he aimed to renovate of the group. In this time, the club bought the pair of central defenders Pablo Ibáñez and Perea. Again the project does not get to materialize and the club finished eleventh, again outside the European competitions.
In the season of 2005-2006, the veteran Carlos Bianchi was in charged to train the club. The club made great investments by bringing stars like Martin Petrov, Maxi Rodríguez and Mateja Kezman. Nevertheless the equipment does not obtain good results and the technician is dismissed to half of season, having replaced to him Pepe Murcia.
