CF Atlas
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| Full name | Club de Futbol Atlas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Zorros (Foxes) |
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| Founded | August 15, 1916 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico |
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| Capacity | 69,480 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman |  Ernesto Fregoso Dueñas |
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| Manager |  Ruben Omar Romano |
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| League | Primera División de México | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Apertura 2006 | 7th (playoffs) 5th (league) 2nd (group) |
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Club de Futbol Atlas, also known as Atlas, is a Mexican professional football club. Atlas is one of three teams that plays in Mexico's second largest city, Guadalajara, in the Primera División de México. The club's home stadium is Estadio Jalisco, which is also the home venue for Chivas de Guadalajara. The other club is UAG Tecos.
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[edit] Honours
- League Championships: 1
- 1951
[edit] History
The Atlas Football Club was founded after a nostalgic conversation in a cafe of Guadalajara, Mexico, where a few students of the upper class society were remembering their experience of playing football in British Universities' squads where they had spent the last few years. Alfonso and Juan José “Lico” Cortina, Pedro “Perico” and Carlos Fernández del Valle, the three Orendain brothers and Federico Collignon (who had studied in Berlin) finally decided in the summer of 1916, to set up a football team called "Club de fútbol Atlas". The club was founded in Tlaquepaque, outside the city of Guadalajara.
The technique the "atlistas" developed was so impressive that the squad was seen as very superior regarding local opponents, and caracterized by triangulations and the ability to quickly avoid opponents tackles.
[edit] Current Squad
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[edit] Squad changes during Clausura 2007 season
In:
Reinaldo Navia - Transfered From Club San Luis
Out:
Cesar Pereyra
[edit] Notable Players
The players in bold typeface are still active in football.
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Argentina
Costa Rica
Brazil
Uruguay
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[edit] External links
- (Spanish) Official site
- (Spanish) Primera División
| Primera División de México |
| América | Atlante | Atlas | Chivas | Cruz Azul | Jaguares | Morelia | Monterrey | Necaxa Pachuca | Queretaro | San Luis | Santos | Tecos | Tigres | Toluca | UNAM | Veracruz |
