Clube Atlético Mineiro

Association football club in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

football club
Clube Atlético Mineiro ( brazilian portuguese : [ ˈklubi aˈtlɛtʃiku miˈneɾu ] ), normally known as Atlético Mineiro or Atlético, and colloquially as Galo ( pronounced [ ˈgalu ], “ Rooster ” ), is a professional football club based in the city of Belo Horizonte, the capital city of the brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The team competes in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, the first flush of brazilian football, american samoa well as in the Campeonato Mineiro, the crown tier country league of Minas Gerais.

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Atlético Mineiro is the oldest active football club in Minas Gerais, founded on 25 March 1908 by twenty-two students from Belo Horizonte. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Despite having upper-class founders, the club immediately opened its doors to players of every social class, establishing itself as a “ people ‘s club ”, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and becoming one of the most-supported clubs in Brazil. [ 7 ] The club ‘s mascot, a cock, has been powerfully associated with Atlético since its introduction in the 1930s. Over the years, the word galo ( Portuguese for “ cock ” ) became a coarse dub for the clubhouse itself. The team ‘s regular home kit comprises black-and-white clean shirts, with black shorts and white socks. Atlético has won the Campeonato Mineiro a criminal record 46 times. At national level, the club has won the Campeonato Brasileiro doubly and has finished second on five occasions. Atlético has besides won one Copa do Brasil, one Copa cause Campeões Estaduais and the Copa act Campeões Brasileiros. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] In international golf club football, Atlético has won the Copa Libertadores and the Recopa Sudamericana once each, and a phonograph record two Copa CONMEBOL ; the team has besides reached three other continental finals. The club has besides competed in other sports throughout its history, with the futsal department becoming particularly luminary. Atlético plays its home matches at the estádio Mineirão, the clubhouse has a long-standing cross-city competition with Cruzeiro, with matches between the two teams referred to as the Clássico Mineiro. The clubhouse besides holds a local competition with América Mineiro, and an interstate one with Flamengo. Atlético has the eighth most valuable trade name in Brazil, worth R $ 515.5 million ( €143 million ) as of 2016, and ranks seventh in the nation in terms of upset, generating R $ 244.6 million ( €62.2 million ) in 2015. [ 10 ] Atlético is presently building a modern stadium, the Arena MRV, which will have a capacity for 47,000 spectators. Its inauguration is scheduled for August 2022. [ 11 ]

history [edit ]

early years and achievements ( 1908–1949 ) [edit ]

The Atlético Mineiro team that won the Taça Bueno Brandão in 1914, the golf club ‘s first trophy Atlético Mineiro was formed on 25 March 1908 by a group of twenty-two students from Belo Horizonte, who decided the club ‘s name would be Athletico Mineiro Foot Ball Club. The cabaret ‘s first base couple was played against Sport Club Futebol on 21 March 1909 ; Atlético won 3–0, with the beginning goal scored by Aníbal Machado. [ 2 ] In 1913, the club ‘s name was formally changed to Clube Atlético Mineiro, and in the follow class Atlético won the Taça Bueno Brandão, the inaugural contest always held in the state of Minas Gerais. [ 12 ] In 1915, the club won the inaugural address edition of the Campeonato Mineiro, the state league of Minas Gerais. The contest was then organised by the Liga Mineira de Sports Athléticos, which would later become the Federação Mineira de Futebol. [ 13 ] América won the next ten editions of the Mineiro, and Atlético only won the league again in 1926, led by striker Mário de Castro. [ 14 ] In 1927, forwards Said and Jairo joined Castro to form an attacking partnership nicknamed the Trio Maldito ( “ Unholy Trio ” ), which guided Atlético to another state league gloat. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] In 1929, the club played its first external meet, against portuguese club Vitória de Setúbal, winning 3–1 in a match played at the Presidente Antônio Carlos Stadium. The ground had opened earlier that class, and would be the club ‘s home for the following two decades. [ 17 ]
Atlético won the state league in 1931 and 1932, before becoming a professional golf club in 1933. [ 18 ] After another Campeonato Mineiro exuberate in 1936, Atlético won the Copa act Campeões Estaduais in 1937, its first claim at national level. The rival was organised by the Federação Brasileira de Foot-Ball, a federation for professional clubs that would late merge into the brazilian Sports Confederation ( CBD ). The Copa dress Campeões Estaduais was contested by the 1936 state of matter league champions from Minas Gerais ( Atlético ), Rio de Janeiro ( Fluminense ), São Paulo ( Portuguesa ) and Espírito Santo ( Rio Branco ). Atlético defeated the latter 5–1 in the final examination pit, played at the Antônio Carlos stadium. [ 19 ] Guará rose as the cabaret ‘s top player during that period, [ 20 ] and the interstate title was followed by two more Campeonato Mineiro victories, in 1938 and 1939. [ 21 ] Success continued in the 1940s, with a police squad that included Carlyle, Lucas Miranda, Nívio and goalkeeper Kafunga. [ 22 ] The club was prevailing in the state as it won the league in 1941, 1942, 1946, 1947 and 1949. [ 21 ] Although América had been Atlético ‘s long-standing adversary, a new competition started to develop with Cruzeiro in the 1940s, as it became Galo ‘s main rival during this period. [ 1 ]

european tour and the Mineirão era ( 1950–1969 ) [edit ]

In 1950, the club ‘s home moved from the Antônio Carlos to the raw and larger Estádio Independência. The season saw another Campeonato Mineiro gloat and the club ‘s beginning european tour, in which it played ten games in five countries. The digression happened at a time when there were neither unconstipated national competitions in Brazil nor continental ones in South America, and followed soon after the traumatic Maracanazo. The tour and Atlético ‘s results, many of which achieved under adverse weather conditions and snow, were seen by national sports media as a historic accomplishment for brazilian football itself. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] The team, captained by Zé do Monte, was dubbed the Campeões do Gelo ( “ Ice Champions ” ), a entitle that is remembered in the club ‘s official anthem. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] The club ‘s success in the submit contest continued in the 1950s, a decade that saw the rebel of forward Ubaldo and five straight Campeonato Mineiro victories from 1952 to 1956. After another state league title in 1958, Atlético took part in the inaugural edition of the Taça Brasil in the watch year, reaching the third rung. [ 27 ] The tournament, the nation ‘s first annual nationally rival, was a cup contested between state league champions, in the first place created by the CBD to select Brazil ‘s entrants in the newly formed Copa Libertadores. [ 28 ]
The Atlético Mineiro team, 1970. In the 1960s, Atlético won the Campeonato Mineiro twice, in 1962 and 1963, but failed to advance to the former stages of the Taça Brasil. Mineirão, Belo Horizonte ‘s new stadium, opened in 1965 and immediately became the club ‘s home. It was in the mid-1960s that the competition with Cruzeiro became the biggest in the country, after this baseball club won the first five country leagues of the Mineirão era. In 1967, another national-level competition was created by the CBD, the Torneio Roberto Gomes Pedrosa. [ 28 ] It included more clubs than the Taça Brasil, but Atlético did not finish in the top-four in any of its editions in the decade. In the second half of the 1960s, highlights came in the mannequin of friendlies against national sides. In 1968, Atlético, representing the brazilian national team, defeated european Championship runner-up Yugoslavia 3–2 at the Mineirão ; [ 29 ] the pursue class, the Seleção itself, which would become champions of the 1970 FIFA World Cup, was defeated 2–1. [ 30 ]

National success and state dominance ( 1970–1989 ) [edit ]

With the arrival of Telê Santana as the club ‘s head bus in 1970, Galo broke Cruzeiro ‘s sequence and won its foremost express league entitle in the Mineirão, [ 31 ] besides finishing one-third in the last Roberto Gomes Pedrosa. In 1971, captained by midfielder Oldair and with World Cup -winning forth Dario as the league ‘s top goalscorer, Atlético won the Campeonato Brasileiro. It was the first edition of the rival, besides known as the Brasileirão, which replaced both the Taça Brasil and the Roberto Gomes Pedrosa as the new national backing. [ 28 ] Atlético played a concluding group stage against São Paulo and Botafogo, defeating the former 1–0 at the Mineirão and the latter 1–0 at the Maracanã. [ 32 ] The victory besides secured the club ‘s first participation in an official continental rival, the 1972 Copa Libertadores, in which it did not advance past the beginning group stage. [ 33 ]
Reinaldo is the club all-time leading goalscorer and is widely considered the greatest player in “Galo’s” History After four trophyless years, Atlético won the state league again in 1976 and finished third base in the Campeonato Brasileiro. That season saw the egress of a fortunate generation of players, formed in the clubhouse ‘s youth academies under bus Barbatana. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] Reinaldo, Toninho Cerezo, Éder, Luizinho, Paulo Isidoro and João Leite, players who represented Brazil at external horizontal surface, were cardinal to the team that took Atlético to six back-to-back state of matter league victories between 1978 and 1983, and to effective results in the Série A. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] Atlético came moment in the 1977 Brasileirão, losing the final to São Paulo in a penalty gunfight at the Mineirão, despite remaining undefeated for the integral season. Reinaldo, the league ‘s crown scorekeeper in that season with an average of 1.56 goals per catch, was banned from the concluding. By his account, this was because of his imperativeness on celebrating his goals by raising his fist, a political symbol that opposed the brazilian military government of the time. [ 38 ] In 1978, Atlético reached the Copa Libertadores semi-finals and won the Copa department of state Campeões Brasileiros, a tournament organised by the CBD between past winners of the Brasileirão. In a repeat of the previous year ‘s Brasileiro decisive match, the adversary in the final examination of this rival was São Paulo, with Atlético this meter winning a punishment gunfight. [ 39 ] In 1980, after having the best record in the beginning stages of the Brasileirão, Atlético lost to Flamengo in a controversial final of the competition. Three Galo players were sent off, among them Reinaldo, who received a square red card after scoring doubly. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] [ 42 ] The team was then eliminated from the trace year ‘s Copa Libertadores undefeated, in another decisive match marked by controversy : a play-off against Flamengo that ended after 37 minutes, following the sendings-off of five Atlético players. [ 42 ] [ 43 ] [ 44 ] During the 1980s, the club participated in and won international friendly competitions, such as the Amsterdam Tournament and the Tournoi de Paris. [ 45 ] [ 46 ] Atlético had the best statistic league records of the 1980, 1983, 1985, 1986 and 1987 Brasileirão seasons, but did not win the title, falling in the finals or semi-finals of those editions. In the second base half of the decade, the golf club continued its success in the state, winning the Campeonato Mineiro in 1985, 1986, 1988 and 1989. [ 21 ] Atlético was one of Brazil ‘s top sides of the 1980s, providing many players to the brazilian national team, being dominant at state horizontal surface and having estimable performances in the Brasileiro, but a inclination to lose in its final knockout stages prevented a raw title in this competition. [ 47 ] [ 48 ]

Continental efforts and fiscal tumult ( 1990–2009 ) [edit ]

In the play along decade, Atlético won the state league in 1991 and first meet success at continental level in 1992, when it won the inaugural Copa CONMEBOL. The team, managed by Procópio Cardoso, defeated Paraguay ‘s Olimpia in the finals to claim its beginning official international title. [ 49 ] As champion of that contest, the club took contribution in the 1993 Copa de Oro, in which it eliminated rivals Cruzeiro in the semi-finals but finally lost to Argentina ‘s Boca Juniors. [ 50 ] After finishing fourth in the 1994 Brasileirão, the following year saw the club win the state league and reach the finals of the Copa CONMEBOL for a moment time. This one ended in kill to Argentine team Rosario Central on penalties, after Atlético won the first leg by 4–0 and lost the irregular one by the same score. [ 51 ] In 1996, Atlético participated in the Copa Masters CONMEBOL, a competition between past winners of the Copa CONMEBOL that was played in Cuiabá ; Atlético eliminated Rosario Central in the semi-finals but lost to São Paulo in the final examination match. [ 52 ] The team besides finished third base in that year ‘s Brasileiro and one-fourth in the surveil version, falling in the semi-finals of both seasons. Another gloat came in the 1997 Copa CONMEBOL, when an Atlético team that included Marques and Cláudio Taffarel defeated Argentina ‘s Lanús in the finals, and won the trophy for a second base time. [ 53 ] In 1999, after another Campeonato Mineiro title, a Galo side led by Marques and Guilherme, the top scorekeeper in the league, reached the Série A finals for the fourth prison term, but lost to Corinthians. Despite international success and good performances in the Série A, the ten was marked by bad club presidency by Atlético ‘s presidents and deteriorating finances, which made the club one of the most indebted in brazilian football. [ 54 ] In 2000, Atlético won the Campeonato Mineiro, and reached the Copa Libertadores quarter-finals and the semi-finals of Copa Mercosur, but had a bad season in the national league, the Copa João Havelange. The surveil class, despite a good performance in the Brasileirão with a squad that included Marques, Guilherme and Gilberto Silva, the team again was eliminated in the rival ‘s semi-finals, finally finishing in fourth station. Atlético then finished in the upper separate of the home league table in the following two seasons, but in 2004 it scantily escaped relegation. In 2005 the club was demoted to the Série B, the second level of the Brasileirão. [ 55 ] With Levir Culpi as drumhead coach, the club won forwarding at the first undertake as Série B champion in 2006, returning to the Série A for the 2007 season. [ 55 ] That year, Atlético won the Campeonato Mineiro, its inaugural trophy in seven years, and finished eighth in the home league. Alexandre Kalil was chosen as the club ‘s new president in 2008, and tried to improve its finances and condition. [ 56 ] In 2009, with Diego Tardelli in good class, Galo led the Brasileirão for eight of the thirty-eight rounds, before finally finishing in seventh place. [ 57 ] Despite some highlights at the begin and end of the decade, the 2000s were not a successful period in the club ‘s history, again marked by badly administration and frequent managerial changes. [ 58 ] Ronaldinho played an important part in the club’s resurgence after his arrival in 2012.

revival and international success ( 2010– ) [edit ]

The team won its fortieth Campeonato Mineiro in 2010, but finished 13th in the Série A. After an unsuccessful year in 2011, coming close to relegation, the arrival of Cuca as head coach at the end of that season marked the beginning of another successful era for the cabaret. [ 59 ] The club moved second to the Independência in 2012, as the Mineirão was closed for renovation, and won the Campeonato Mineiro undefeated. The arrival of Ronaldinho in the in-between of the season was an crucial event for the club, [ 60 ] [ 61 ] which finally finished as runner-up in the Série A and earned a smudge in the follow year ‘s Copa Libertadores. [ 62 ] Diego Tardelli and Gilberto Silva returned to the baseball club in 2013, and joined Ronaldinho, Jô and Bernard towards another Campeonato Mineiro gloat. The quarter-finals of that season ‘s Copa Libertadores saw an iconic moment for Atlético, when a penalty complain was awarded to Mexican Club Tijuana in injury time. It would have meant elimination if it had been scored, but was saved by Atlético ‘s goalkeeper winner with his foot. The deliver, according to sports commentators and fans, represented the “ kicking out ” of the baseball club ‘s historic “ hex ”. [ 63 ] [ 64 ] [ 65 ] Atlético then defeated Argentina ‘s Newell ‘s Old Boys in the semi-finals and Olimpia in the finals on penalties, after losing both first leg by 2–0 and winning the moment ones by the lapp score, to claim its first Copa Libertadores title. [ 66 ] [ 67 ] The club ‘s participation in the FIFA Club World Cup was unsuccessful, as it failed to reach the final, losing to Moroccan hosts Raja Casablanca ; Atlético finally finished in third base position after defeating China ‘s Guangzhou Evergrande. [ 68 ] Under Levir Culpi, who returned to the baseball club in 2014, Atlético won its first Recopa Sudamericana, defeating Lanús for the second fourth dimension in a continental final. [ 69 ] In that season ‘s Copa do Brasil, after trailing 0–3 on aggregate in both the quarter-finals and semi-finals ( against Corinthians and Flamengo, respectively ), Atlético made 4–3 comebacks and advance. [ 70 ] [ 71 ] The rival ‘s finals were the first at national level to feature the Belo Horizonte rivals, and Atlético defeated Cruzeiro on both encounters to win its first Copa do Brasil. [ 72 ] The club ‘s successful footrace in the decade continued in 2015, when it won the Campeonato Mineiro and finished second base in the Campeonato Brasileiro. [ 73 ] [ 74 ] In 2016, however, Atlético Mineiro ended the season without official trophies, finishing as runner-up of the Campeonato Mineiro and the Copa do Brasil, and in one-fourth place in the Brasileiro. [ 75 ] The golf club achieved its 44th Campeonato Mineiro championship in 2017. [ 76 ]

Symbols and colours [edit ]

The first crest used by Atlético Mineiro

crest [edit ]

The cabaret ‘s foremost emblem, introduced in the 1910s, consisted of a simple plan of the three initials of the club ‘s name ( “ CAM ” for Clube Atlético Mineiro ) in an ellipse human body in black. The foremost and most significant change occurred in 1922, when an edged harbor format was adopted, with the letters in its upper character and black and white stripes in the lower. [ 77 ] The crest ‘s general appearance has been kept ever since, with merely the demand format and the placement of the black and white stripes within the finger plate changing over the decades. In the 1970s a golden ace above the badge was introduced, alluding to the 1971 Série A title, which silent remains. [ 78 ] Red stars were featured on two occasions, referring to the 1978 Copa department of state Campeões and the 1992 and 1997 Copa CONMEBOL victories, but these were removed in 1999. [ 79 ]
Galo Doido (“Crazy Rooster”), the club’s stadium mascot ( “ Crazy Rooster ” ), the clubhouse ‘s stadium mascot

mascot [edit ]

Atlético ‘s mascot, a cock, is the best known in the nation. [ 80 ] According to Kafunga, who played as goalkeeper for the golf club from 1935 to 1955, the “ cock ” dub was associated with Atlético because of its kit color. [ 81 ] In 1945, Fernando Pierucetti, known as Mangabeira, a cartoonist for the A Folha de Minas newspaper, was selected to design mascots for each of the three biggest clubs in Belo Horizonte. According to Mangabeira, Atlético ‘s would be the cock because the team used to play with mania and would never give up until the end of each peer, like gamecocks in cockfights. [ 82 ] [ 83 ] Over the years, the word galo ( Portuguese for “ cock ” ) became a cheer chant for the supporters and a nickname by which they referred to the club, an appellation that finally spread to other football fans in the country. [ 84 ] The nickname was incorporated into the cabaret ‘s official hymn, composed by Vicente Motta in 1968, whose chorus hails Atlético as a “ firm and avenging cock ”. [ 25 ] [ 85 ] In 1976, a costumed cock mascot was introduced, to accompany players and children in the match entrance. The stadium mascot was reintroduced with a new costume in 2005, named Galo Doido ( “ Crazy Rooster ” ) by the supporters. [ 86 ]

Kits [edit ]

The baseball club ‘s home kit has constantly consisted of a black-and-white vertically plunder shirt, with black shorts and blank or black socks. The width of the black and white stripes has varied from season to season, as has the semblance of the shirt numbers, which have normally been red, black, white or scandalmongering. Atlético ‘s traditional away kit is all-white shirts, shorts and socks, but has had slight variations. [ 87 ] An all-black third kit out was introduced in the 2000 season, being used again in 2015. [ 88 ] In 2008, a black-and-gold vertically strip third gear kit was launched to commemorate the club ‘s centennial, featuring the first peak. [ 89 ] Squad count 12 is retired from the club ‘s kits, dedicated to the fans. [ 90 ] Since the 1981 season, the club has had its kits manufactured by sportswear corporations, the first one being brazilian company Rainha. [ 91 ] Since 2017, Atlético ‘s kits are manufactured by Topper, a party which previously provided apparel for the baseball club from 2010 to 2012. [ 92 ] [ 93 ] early previous suppliers were Adidas ( 1983–85 ), Penalty ( 1986–90, 1992–93 and 1997–2001 ), [ 91 ] Dell’erba ( 1991 ), Umbro ( 1994–96 and 2002–04 ), [ 94 ] Diadora ( 2005–07 ), Lotto ( 2008–09 ), Lupo ( 2013 ), [ 95 ] Puma ( 2014–2015 ) and Dryworld ( 2016 ). [ 96 ] [ 97 ] In 1982, bank Credireal was Atlético ‘s first shirt sponsor. [ 91 ] After one sponsorless season in 1983, Precon, a construction company, appeared on the shirts in 1984 and 1985 ; it was replaced by Agrimisa bank in 1986. In 1987, Coca-Cola sponsored all participating clubs of Copa União, [ 98 ] and the mark remained on Atlético ‘s kits until 1994. The club was subsequently sponsored by TAM Airlines ( 1995–96 ), Tenda ( 1997–98 ), [ 94 ] and had impermanent deals with Fiat and Telemar in 1999. [ 99 ] Two sponsorless years followed, before permanent deals were signed with Fiat ( 2002–03 ), MRV Engenharia ( 2004–07 ) and Fiat again in 2008. [ 100 ] [ 101 ] After one more season without a post on the golf club ‘s shirts, BMG, a bank that was owned by the former club president of the united states Ricardo Annes Guimarães, [ 102 ] was the independent sponsor from 2010 to 2014. MRV returned as the club ‘s independent shirt sponsor in 2015, [ 103 ] being replaced by state-owned savings bank Caixa Econômica Federal in 2016. [ 104 ]

Grounds [edit ]

Estádio Presidente Antônio Carlos was Atlético Mineiro ‘s home ground from 1929 to 1950. Atlético had its first base home ground built in 1912 at Paraopeba Avenue, in downtown Belo Horizonte, across the street from América ‘s inaugural stadium. [ 105 ] The club ‘s independent establish for most of its early years, however, was the Presidente Antônio Carlos stadium, which held 5,000 people ; it was nicknamed Estádio de Lourdes for the quarter in which it was located. The Antônio Carlos was one of the first stadiums in Brazil to feature floodlights, and opened on 30 May 1929 with a friendly against Corinthians, won by Atlético 4–2. The follow year, the stadium was visited by FIFA president of the united states Jules Rimet, who watched a nox game for the first meter. [ 106 ] The stadium fell out of favor when the larger Independência was built in 1950, and remained largely unused by the inaugural team ; finally it was sold by the club to the Belo Horizonte municipality in the 1960s. After decades of legal disputes with the municipal politics, the property returned to the club in 1991. It was leased to a denounce plaza in 1995, which was built in the watch year where the stadium once was, across the street from Atlético ‘s administrative headquarters. [ 107 ]
Independência, the club ‘s beginning option family stadium from 1950 to 1965, and from 2012 to 2019 construction for the Independência ( officially Estádio Raimundo Sampaio ) started in 1947 in formulation for the 1950 FIFA World Cup, during which its first gear pit was played. [ 108 ] Originally the property of the State Government of Minas Gerais, possession was transferred to Sete de Setembro FC in 1965, when the Mineirão was built, and the property passed to América in 1997, when it absorbed Sete de Setembro. [ 109 ] Before the Mineirão, the stadium was the largest in Belo Horizonte – holding up to 30,000 people – and was preferred by Atlético over the older and smaller Antônio Carlos stadium. After the Mineirão ‘s structure, however, Atlético did not use the Estádio do Horto ( as it is besides known ) for decades, except for a brief spell in the former 1990s. The stadium was renovated in 2012, while the Mineirão was closed, having its capacity reduced to 23,018. In that class, Atlético announced a hand with BWA Arenas, the stadium coach. The club signed a contract to use the Independência as its home ground for 10 years, but moved back to the Mineirão in 2020. [ 17 ]
Mineirão ( officially Estádio Governador Magalhães Pinto ) opened in 1965, and cursorily became the home of both Atlético and Cruzeiro, [ 110 ] as its flower capacity of over 100,000 spectators surpassed any early stadium in Belo Horizonte or in the submit. The property of the department of state of Minas Gerais, Mineirão was Atlético ‘s home plate from its opening until it closed in 2010 for renovations anterior to the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The club temporarily moved to Arena do Jacaré in Sete Lagoas and subsequently to Independência in 2012. [ 111 ] Historically the clubhouse ‘s home land, Atlético ‘s most significant matches have all been played at the Mineirão. [ 112 ] [ 113 ] After the renovation, the Mineirão has an overall capacity of 61,846. [ 114 ] Cidade do Galo ( “ Rooster City ” ), the club ‘s main train facility since 2001, has been lauded as the best in Brazil and is considered one of the best in the world ; [ 115 ] [ 116 ] it hosted the Argentina national football team at the 2014 FIFA World Cup. [ 117 ] other facilities owned by the golf club include Vila Olímpica ( “ Olympic Village ” ), the erstwhile trail grounds opened in 1973 that hosted the Seleção in its formulation for the 1982 FIFA World Cup, and Labareda, a leisure and health club in Belo Horizonte. [ 106 ] In 2015, Daniel Nepomuceno, the club president, announced that Atlético had a four-year project to build a newly stadium in Belo Horizonte, with a 45,000 capacity. [ 118 ] [ 119 ] In 2017, the club ‘s Deliberative Council approved the undertaking to build the modern stadium, in northeastern Belo Horizonte, called “ Arena MRV “. The construction is projected to cost R $ 410 million, [ 120 ] and expected to end in 2022. [ 121 ]

Supporters [edit ]

A massa supporting Atlético Mineiro at the supporting Atlético Mineiro at the Mineirão in 2013 Atlético Mineiro was founded by upper-class students, but from an early historic period it opened its doors to players from every social class, nationality or ethnicity, which earned it a “ people ‘s golf club ” status in Belo Horizonte and in the submit. América, interim, had a repute as an elitist club, and Cruzeiro was strongly associated with the local italian colony. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 122 ] As a solution of the democratic patronize, the fans came to be jointly known as “A Massa” ( Portuguese for “ the mass ” ). [ 123 ] According to a 2014 survey conducted by IBOPE and Lance!, the club is the best-supported in Belo Horizonte and in Minas Gerais, and has the sixth largest fanbase in Brazil, with seven million supporters. [ 7 ] A 2014 survey by Datafolha, however, shows Atlético as the second best-supported cabaret in Minas Gerais and tenth in Brazil. [ 124 ] Atlético has many torcidas organizadas that support the club, the oldest being Dragões da FAO, founded in 1969, and the largest and best-known being Galoucura. other luminary groups include Galö Metal, Movimento 105 Minutos and the Charanga, a administration band that plays during the club ‘s home matches. [ 125 ] Galoucura has historically developed alliances with other torcidas in Brazil, most notably Palmeiras ‘s Mancha Verde and Vasco da Gama ‘s Força Jovem. [ 126 ] After difficult but successful comebacks in 2013 and 2014, the fans have adopted the motto “Eu acredito” ( “ I believe ” ) to support the club in against-the-odds situations. [ 127 ] [ 128 ] Squad act 12 is retired from the baseball club ‘s kits and dedicated to the fans. [ 90 ]

Rivalries [edit ]

The local competition between Atlético and Cruzeiro, known as the Clássico Mineiro ( “ Mineiro Derby ” ), exists since Cruzeiro ‘s initiation ( as Sociedade Esportiva Palestra Itália ) in 1921. It strengthened in the 1940s, and became the biggest bowler hat in Minas Gerais in the 1960s. [ 5 ] [ 139 ] Atlético dominated the competition from its early days until the 1950s, but Cruzeiro rose in the 1960s to be a strong rival, and the 1970s had divided honours. [ 140 ] The 1980s were dominated by Atlético, while the 1990s and 2000s were favorable to Cruzeiro. The 2010s have the rivals competing at an flush flush. The clubhouse protest over the total of matches and neck and neck phonograph record of the Clássico Mineiro, but both teams ‘ statistics show Atlético with most wins in the find. [ 141 ] The merely national final between the two clubs happened in the 2014 Copa do Brasil, when Atlético triumphed in a concluding match played at the Mineirão. [ 72 ] The Clássico ‘s most extreme consequence was a 9–2 gain by Atlético, in the 1927 Campeonato Mineiro. [ 142 ] [ 143 ] Atlético versus América was known as the Clássico das Multidões ( “ Derby of the Masses ” ) before the construction of the Mineirão, as they were the most popular clubs in the state. [ 144 ] In their first gear years, América was known as an elitist club, while Atlético had democratic appeal ; [ 4 ] the former dominated the early years of the meet, winning ten-spot consecutive Campeonato Mineiro titles from 1916 to 1925. In the 1930s, Atlético pioneered professionalization of football in Minas Gerais, whereas América resisted against it. From that time on, Galo became the major force between the two, with América suffering a reverse as a result of its internal disagreements regarding professionalism. [ 145 ] Atlético besides holds a competition with Flamengo of Rio de Janeiro, with the first match between the clubs being played in 1929. Until even national competitions were introduced in brazilian football in 1959, however, the encounters were played at friendly horizontal surface, since the clubs are from different states. The competition developed in the 1980s, rising from numerous controversial encounters between the two clubs in Campeonato Brasileiro and Copa Libertadores editions of the time period. It remained through the be decades, and is considered the biggest interstate competition in brazilian football. [ 146 ]

Records and statistics [edit ]

João Leite holds Atlético ‘s official appearance phonograph record, with 684 matches in all competitions. [ 147 ] Reinaldo is the club ‘s all-time go goalscorer, with 255 goals, since joining the first squad in 1973. [ 148 ] In the 1977 season, he scored 28 goals in 18 appearances, setting the club record for the most Campeonato Brasileiro goals in a season, and the league ‘s best average goal-per-game record ( 1.55 ). [ 149 ] Dadá Maravilha is second in entire goals, with 211, and the only other Atlético player to score over 200 goals. [ 150 ] Argentine striker Lucas Pratto is Atlético ‘s all-time clear extraneous goalscorer, with 41 goals. [ 151 ] [ 152 ] Telê Santana is Galo ‘s longest-serving head coach, having taken blame of the team for 434 matches during three periods in the 1970s and 1980s. [ 153 ] Nelson Campos is the club ‘s longest-serving president, with nine years in the office in three terms. [ 154 ] The foremost official game in which Atlético participated was against Yale for the 1915 Campeonato Mineiro, which the team won 5–0. [ 155 ] The biggest victory ever recorded by Galo was 13–0, against Calafate in the 1927 Campeonato Mineiro. In the national league, the biggest succeed came against Desportiva Ferroviária – 7–1 in the 1982 season. [ 156 ] Atlético ‘s biggest win in the Copa do Brasil, 11–0 against Caiçara in 1991, is besides the rival ‘s phonograph record victory. [ 157 ] The club ‘s home attendance phonograph record – split-crowd derbies excepted – is 115,142, in a friendly against Flamengo at the Mineirão, in 1980. The record attendance in official matches is 113,749, achieved in a pit against Santos for the 1983 Brasileirão. [ 158 ] Atlético holds the brazilian criminal record for longest unbeaten melt at base, with 54 matches from 2011 to 2013. [ 159 ] [ 160 ] The sign language of André from Dynamo Kyiv in 2012 is the club ‘s most expensive purchase, costing around €8 million, [ 161 ] while the phonograph record sale is the transportation of Bernard to Shakhtar Donetsk in 2013, which cost the ukrainian club €25 million. [ 162 ]

arrangement and finances [edit ]

As is the case for most brazilian football clubs, Atlético Mineiro ‘s by-law defines the club as a nonprofit organization public utility organization, formed by associates ( sócios ). [ 163 ] The club ‘s administrative powers are the General Assembly, the Deliberative Council, the Board, the Fiscal Council and the Ethics and Discipline Council. The General Assembly, composed of all associates, elects the Deliberative Council among its members every three years, which in turn elects and removes the club ‘s Board, responsible for the executive management of the clubhouse. [ 163 ] Season ticket-holders and participants of the Galo na Veia affiliation program, called sócios-torcedores, are not full club associates and can not vote or be elected. [ 164 ] A study conducted by BDO in 2016 indicated that the club had a brand respect of R $ 515.5 million ( €143 million ), making it the eighth most valuable in Brazil. [ 10 ] In terms of annual dollar volume, Atlético ranked one-seventh in the state in 2015, earning R $ 244.6 million ( €62.2 million ), which represented a 37 per cent increase compared to the former class. [ 10 ] [ 165 ] The club has a main sponsorship deal with Caixa Econômica Federal, deserving R $ 12.5 million ( €3.2 million ) per annum. [ 104 ] Its kit sponsorship deal with Dryworld, deserving R $ 20 million ( €5.1 million ) per year, is the third gear biggest in the country. [ 166 ]
Clube Atlético Mineiro headquarter in Belo Horizonte. The club ‘s gross debt as of 2015 was R $ 496.5 million ( €126.6 million ), the third base largest in Brazil, with a R $ 11.9 million ( €3 million ) deficit in the lapp class. [ 10 ] The club ‘s balance sail in that year stated it experienced operational losses, and according to a study by Itaú BBA, Atlético operates in a dangerous “ fiscal all-in ”. [ 165 ] [ 167 ] The majority of the club ‘s debt is owed to the Federal Government of Brazil, totalling R $ 286.6 million ( €89.1 million ) ; in 2015, Atlético and early clubs joined a government plan for debt financing. [ 168 ]

In popular culture [edit ]

Atlético Mineiro and episodes in the club ‘s history have appeared on films and other media. The music video for “ É Uma Partida de Futebol ” ( “ It ‘s a football Match ” ), by brazilian rock band Skank, was filmed during a 1997 Clássico Mineiro match between Atlético and Cruzeiro ; the video recording won three categories at the 1997 MTV Video Music Brazil awards. [ 169 ] An Atlético match was besides depicted in a martian Manhunter comedian book, by DC Comics, in 2015. [ 170 ] The protagonist in Memories of the Desert, a 2014 brazilian crime drama movie, is a patron of the club ( as is the actor who portrayed him, Daniel de Oliveira ). [ 171 ] A short-circuit film about goalkeeper Victor ‘s iconic penalty-kick save against Tijuana in the 2013 Copa Libertadores was released in 2014 ; named A Dream You Dream Together Is Reality, it was awarded the Guirlande D’Honneur by the FICTS at the “ Sport Movies & TV – Milano International FICTS Fest “. [ 172 ] In the follow year, O Dia do Galo, a objective that followed five Atlético supporters on the day of the final match of the like contest, was released in theatres as a feature of speech film. The movement picture was one of the most watch brazilian films of 2015, and won the Popular Jury award at the Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes. [ 173 ] [ 174 ] O Imortal do Gelo, a movie about the club ‘s 1950 enlistment to Europe, was released in 2015. [ 175 ]

Honours [edit ]

Atlético Mineiro ‘s first trophy was the Taça Bueno Brandão, won in 1914. The club was the beginning winner of the Campeonato Mineiro, the country league of Minas Gerais, a competition it has won a record 46 times ; it has besides won the Taça Minas Gerais, a state cup, on five occasions. At national flat, Atlético has won the Campeonato Brasileiro twice, while finishing second on five seasons ; it has besides won the Copa doctor of osteopathy Campeões Estaduais, the Copa do Campeões Brasileiros and the Copa do Brasil once each, besides finishing as runner-up once in the latter. In international competitions, Atlético has won the Copa Libertadores and the Recopa Sudamericana once each, and a record two Copa CONMEBOL trophies ; the golf club has besides finished as runner-up of the Copa CONMEBOL, the Copa de Oro and the Copa Master de CONMEBOL. The club has competed in the FIFA Club World Cup once, finishing in third place. The clubhouse ‘s most holocene title is the 2021 Campeonato Mineiro. [ 176 ]

International [edit ]

Winner (1): 2013

Winner (2): 1992, 1997 (record)

Winner (1): 2014

domestic [edit ]

National

Winner (2): 1971, 2021

Winner (1): 2014

Winner (1): 1937

Winner (1): 1978

Winner (1): 2006

State

Winner (46): 1915, 1926, 1927, 1931, 1932, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1962, 1963, 1970, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2020, 2021 (record)

Winner (5): 1975, 1976, 1979, 1986, 1987 (shared record)

Players [edit ]

For a number of noteworthy former and stream Atlético Mineiro players, see List of Clube Atlético Mineiro players For a list of all former and stream players with a Wikipedia article, see category : Clube Atlético Mineiro players

First team team [edit ]

As of 22 September 2021.[183]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

other players with foremost team appearances [edit ]

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Out on loanword [edit ]

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management [edit ]

team management [edit ]

Atlético Mineiro ‘s technical and medical staff is composed of permanent members in all positions, except head coach and adjunct passenger car. [ 184 ]
death updated : 5 March 2021
Source : Comissão Técnica – Atlético ( in Portuguese )

Club board [edit ]

The clubhouse ‘s board took office on 4 January 2021, with its term ending on 31 December 2023. [ 185 ]

other departments [edit ]

Futsal [edit ]

Atlético Mineiro opened its futsal department in the 1960s, achieving victories at submit level in the pursuit decades, and winning the Taça Brasil in 1985. [ 186 ] In the deep 1990s, the team, named Atlético Pax de Minas for sponsorship reasons, was prominent at national and international level. With players such as Manoel Tobias, Falcão and Lenísio in the police squad, Atlético won the brazilian Liga Futsal twice, in 1997 and 1999, and the Intercontinental Futsal Cup in 1998, finishing as runner-up of both competitions in 2000. [ 187 ] In the second leg of the 1999 Liga Futsal finals against Rio de Janeiro, the attendance at Mineirinho was 25,713, a global commemorate in the fun. [ 188 ] In 2000, the sponsorship deal with Pax de Minas ended and Atlético ‘s professional senior futsal team folded in the follow year, with the young sectors remaining. [ 189 ] The club ‘s futsal department ceased operations in 2009. [ 190 ]
In March 2018, the club announced the universe of an american english football team, a three-year partnership with Grupo Sada and BH Eagles, named Galo Futebol Americano. [ 191 ] [ 192 ] In its beginning season playing with this name in the Superliga Nacional de Futebol Americano, Brazil ‘s american football league, the team won the Southeast Conference undefeated, and proceeded to win all matches in the playoffs, including the Brasil Bowl against João Pessoa Espectros. [ 193 ] [ 194 ]

Olympic sports [edit ]

Atlético Mineiro had departments for other Olympic sports throughout its history, with the athletics and volleyball ones achieving luminary. In 1983, ball carrier João district attorney Mata won the São Silvestre road race as an Atlético athlete. [ 195 ] In 2007, Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot and Alice Timbilil won the male and female categories of the same race, and celebrated their victory with Atlético flags. The club ‘s board stated that the athletes had been sponsored as a market strategy. [ 196 ] Atlético ‘s men ‘s volleyball department won the Minas Gerais Volleyball Championship a full of twelve times, ranking irregular in the state for most titles. The team had an specially successful menstruation in the early 1980s, under the administrative management of Alexandre Kalil, who became golf club president in 2009. [ 197 ]