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Sevilla have been prevented from retiring the number 16 shirt in their squad in honour of Antonio Puerta by the Spanish Football Federation's (RFEF) guidelines.
The Andalucian outfit had planned to not issue the number ever again after the player died at the start of last season due to heart failure.
Puerta's death stunned the city and the football world and as one last act in his memory, Sevilla had hoped to ensure that nobody would wear 16 again.
But the RFEF's rules state that clubs must use number 1 to 25 for their regular squad and that there is no room for maneouvre when it comes to altering that list.
As a result, David Prieto will don the number 16 next term in honour of his friend, while the club's newest signings will immediately fill the spaces left by those that have been sold.
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