Club de Fútbol Atlante

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Atlante
Full name	Club de Fútbol Atlante, S.A. de C.V.
Nickname(s)	Potros de Hierro (Iron Colts)
Founded	1916
Ground	Estadio Azteca, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
Capacity	114,600
Chairman	José Antonio García Rodríguez
Manager	René Isidoro García
League	Primera División de México
Clausura 2006	Quarterfinals
Home colours 　 Away colours

Club de Fútbol Atlante, also known as Atlante, is a Mexican professional football club. Atlante plays in the Primera División de México. The club plays its home games in Estadio Azteca, located in Mexico City.

Contents 1 Honours 1.1 Professional Era 2 History 3 Current roster 3.1 Squad changes for Apertura 2006 season 4 Feeder Teams

[edit] Honours

[edit] Professional Era

• League Championships: 2
  • 1946-47, 1992-93
• CONCACAF Champions' Cup: 1
  • 1983

[edit] History

Atlante was founded in 1916 with the name Sinaloa by a group of young Mexican football enthusiasts led by Refugio "El Vaquero" Martínez. The team played in the La Condesa neighborhood in Mexico City.

Since the professionalization of the Mexican league, Atlante has been champions twice, in the 1946-47 season, and the 1992-93 season. The club also won the CONCACAF Champions' Cup in 1983, and was runner-up in 1994 to C.S. Cartaginés.

[edit] Current roster

3 Federico Vilar 4 David Oteo 5 Horacio Cervantes 6 Eduardo Rergis 7 Daniel Alcántar 8 Gustavo Bizcayzacú 9 Jesús Olalde 10 Patricio Galaz 11 Juan Carlos Falcón 13 Mirsha Serrano 14 José G. Espinoza 15 Javier Muñoz Mustafá 16 Israel Vargas 17 Oscar Pelayo 18 Ángel Servando García

19 Miguel Barrón 21 Rodolfo Espinoza 22 Rafael Cuevas 23 Martin Manuel Calderon 24 Emiliano Rodríguez 25 Hugo David Gutierrez 26 Chrystian Araiza 27 José Guerrero 28 Jesus Mendoza 29 Andrés Ugalde 30 Mario Alberto Hernández Lash 32 Jose Quezada 34 Gerardo Ruiz 44 Clemente Ovalle 63 Carlos Ramírez

[edit] Squad changes for Apertura 2006 season

In:

• Jesus Mendoza - Loaned From San Luis
• Rodolfo Espinoza - Loaned From Necaxa
• Gustavo Bizcayzacú - Loaned From CD Veracruz
• Martín Manuel Calderón - Loaned From CD Veracruz
• Hugo David Gutierrez - Free Agent

Out:

• Diego Ramírez - Loaned To CF Monterrey
• Osvaldo Lucas - Loaned To Necaxa
• Roberto Nurse - Loaned To Queretaro
• Jorge Collazo - Loaned To Queretaro
• Isaac Fierros - Transferred To Club Leon
• Hugo Sánchez Portugal - Retired
• Francisco Cati To N.A.
• Diego Héctor Garay - Transferred To Club Leon
• Ignacio Hierro To N.A.
• José María Cárdenas - Transferred To Club Leon

[edit] Feeder Teams

Atlante organizes a club in North Carolina called Atlante USA. AUSA play in a league ran by the Inter-American Sports Organization (IASO).