CF Atlas
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| Full name | Club de Futbol Atlas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Zorros (Foxes) |
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| Founded | August 14, 1916 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Jalisco, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico |
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| Capacity | 56,713 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 Guadalajara
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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 compared to local opponents, and characterized by triangulations and the ability to skillfully avoid opponents tackles. Atlas and Chivas have also been rivals, they play in the Classico Tapatio. Although Atlas have been league champions only once, their training camps have been famous for developing national idols like Jared Borgetti and Rafael Marquez.
[edit] Current Squad
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[edit] Squad changes during Clausura 2007 season
In:
Reinaldo Navia - Transfered From Club San Luis
Nicolas Olivera - Transferred From Necaxa
Jair Garcia - Transferred From Indios de Cd. Juárez
Out:
Hugo Rodallega - Return to CF Monterrey
Emmanuel Villa - Transferred to UAG Tecos- Cesar Pereyra -
- Mauricio Romero- Transferred to Puebla
[edit] Notable Players
The players in bold typeface are still active in football.
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Argentina
Costa Rica
Chile Brazil
Paraguay Uruguay
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[edit] External links
- (Spanish) Official site
- (Spanish) Primera División
| Primera División de México, Apertura 2006 & Clausura 2007 | ||
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Group 1 |
Group 2 |
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Primera División de México | Primera División A | Segunda División | Tercera División |
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List of champions | El Clásico (Regiomontano) | InterLiga | SuperLiga |
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| CF Atlas - Current Squad |
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1 Rodríguez | 3 Caniza | 4 Robles | 6 Valenzuela | 7 M. Pérez | 8 Medina | 9 Navia | 10 Olivera | 11 Osorno | 12 A. Pérez | 14 Balcázar | 15 Garcia | 16 Ayala | 17 Guardado | 21 Santiago | 22 Jiménez | 23 Gradito | 24 Torres | 25 Castro | 26 Valdez | 27 Durán | 28 Alférez | 29 Almaral | 30 Torres Nilo | 32 Murguia | 37 Guevara | 38 Andrade | 50 Betancio | 54 Sánchez | 98 Paganoni | 99 Flores | Manager: Romano |
