Atlante F.C.

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Atlante Fútbol Club, is a mexican football clubhouse based in Mexico City, Mexico. Founded in 1918, Atlante were original members of the Mexican professional league when it began in 1943.

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Atlante has won three national league championships, two from their original home in Mexico City, and the most holocene following their 2007 move to Cancún before finally returning to Mexico City. They are besides three-time winners of the Copa México, and doubly winners of the CONCACAF Champions ‘ Cup / CONCACAF Champions League. Atlante presently compete in Mexico ‘s second-tier Liga de Expansión MX following delegating from Liga MX at the end of the 2013–14 season .

history [edit ]

The begin [edit ]

Atlante was founded on April 18, 1916, with the appoint Sinaloa by a group of young Mexican football enthusiasts, led by Refugio “ El Vaquero ” Martínez. The team began playing in the La Condesa vicinity in Mexico City. After changing its name to Lusitania and U-53, Refugio Martínez proposed the name Atlante, after the mighty battles fought at the Atlantic Ocean during World War I. During the 1920s, players such as the Rosas brothers, Manuel “ Chaquetas ” Rosas and Felipe “ Diente ” Rosas, deoxyadenosine monophosphate well as Juan “ El Trompo ” Carreño, helped Atlante to become one of the most popular teams, by and large among the bring classes, which led to its most celebrated and legendary dub, El Equipo del Pueblo, “ citizenry ‘s team ”. Atlante ‘s caption Juan Carreño scored Mexico ‘s first finish in the Olympic Games in Amsterdam 1928, vitamin a well as Mexico national team ‘s beginning always finish in a FIFA World Cup during the inaugural address peer against France in Uruguay 1930. Despite its popularity, the mexican Federation did not allow the team to be involved in the Mexican championship, the Liga Mayor. In rate for Atlante to be allowed into the league, it had to win several proof-matches against Toluca and América, two mighty football clubs. The duels were won by Atlante with scores of 7–2 and 2–1, respectively. Accepted within the Liga Mayor, Atlante formed a major competition against Necaxa, which became the first classical in Mexican football. The games between these two were ferocious battles, even drawing in points at the end of the 1931–32 tournament. During the early on years of football in Mexico, when famed alien teams began to challenge the mexican teams they swept most clubs except one : Atlante. What many do not recall today is that Atlante was the beginning Mexican team that acquired home fame by knocking down those alien “ giants ”. In 1929, Atlante defeated Sabaria of Hungary 3–1. In 1930, Atlante doubly defeated Sportivo of Buenos Aires, 2–1 and 3–2. One of their more recall feat was the 3–2 victory in 1931 over Bella Vista of Uruguay, which had three players from the team that won the first World Cup a class before in Montevideo. In the 1940s, during the final years of World War II, Atlante ‘s Horacio Casarín began being noticed for his frightful skill and ability, which besides led him to become a major figure in the Mexico national team. Atlante ‘s popularity, continued to grow after the team was portrayed on the big riddle in many films of Mexico ‘s gold era of cinema. Some of those films are “ Los Hijos de Don Venancio ”, “ Los Nietos de Don Venancio ”, “ El Vividor ”, “ El que bunco niños se acuesta ”, among many others. Players Horacio Casarín and Martí Ventolrà were even region of those films ‘ casting .

Professional era and first championship title [edit ]

In 1943, the Mexican Federation founded the Professional League with six clubs of the Primera Fuerza of Mexico City, two clubs from the Liga Occidental ( Western League ) and two members from the Liga Veracruzana ( Veracruz League ), being Atlante one of those six clubs of Mexico City. together, they all became what is known today as the Mexican Primera División. After 4 tournaments, and with the aid of its owner General Jose Manuel Nuñez ( a retired militar asked personally by early President Lázaro Cárdenas to watch over the team ) arsenic well as of its sensational actor Horacio Casarín, the team obtained its first championship in the 1946–47 season. The final match against León was attended by 48,622 people, including the stream President Miguel Alemán Valdés ( he evening got into the field after the match in a celebrated photograph with the champions ). Before that, in 1945 the team imposed the latin american record for more goals in a unmarried season with 121 goals in 30 matches ( more than four goals per game ). Atlante besides became the first base Mexican team to be crowned at the Champion of Champions cup ( a super cup dodge backing ) during the 1941–42 season. After the beginning title, several early teams dominated the championship ; however, Atlante remained as a knock-down rival and still a popular team for the function classes, along with its runner-up, mexican Cup and the Champion of Champions titles in the early 1950s. In 1966, General Jose Manuel Nuñez decided to sell the team to Fernando González, “ Fernandón ”. Poor level and irregular campaigns proceeded the betray, which led Atlante to be relegated from the Primera División to Segunda División in 1976 .

The IMSS era [edit ]

The team managed to return to the Primera División for the 1977–78 season. In October 1978, the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social ( IMSS ) acquired the team in a 100 % ownership, promising to make the largest football golf club in the universe with 22 million associates throughout the state. With the fiscal digest of the governmental institution, the team experienced successful campaigns with reinforcements such as the old-time idol Horacio Casarín as forefront coach and the Mexican football ‘s all-time top goalscorer Cabinho, who would become three-time champion striker with Atlante in 1980, 1981 and 1982. Its generative campaigns led them to the 1981–82 concluding championship match against Tigres UANL, and after regular and extra time, Atlante became runner-up at penalty kicks. Nevertheless, a year late Atlante won its inaugural continental title with the CONCACAF Champions ‘ Cup against Suriname ‘s Robinhood. While the government still owned the team, another institution took over the management activities. The Departamento del Distrito Federal, DDF ( the early consistency which controlled the Mexican Federal District ) intended to propel the team with little results. After playing for several years at the Estadio Azteca, the team even had to leave this venue and setting its new battlefield at the Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes, nowadays Cruz Azul ‘s Estadio Azul. In 1989, the media broke out with a major news program : The DDF sold the team to Jose Antonio García, a businessman owner of the sports ‘ goods & apparel company Garcis. After a fail campaign at a new venue, this fourth dimension at Querétaro ‘s Estadio Corregidora, the team was relegated, again, to the Segunda División .

second backing title [edit ]

right from its ashes, and back to its homeground Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes, now rebaptized as Estadio Azulgrana, Atlante managed to make an incredible come bet on to the Primera División, after 3 outstanding games against Pachuca in the final serial for the Segunda División Championship. After the serial ‘ end, which led to excess time, penalty kicks and sudden end, Atlante ‘s goalkeeper Félix Fernández scored the last penalty kick for a 9–8 final score. In 1992–93, and guided by Ricardo La Volpe, Atlante obtained its second backing title against Monterrey, with the final examination match played at Monterrey ‘s stadium, Estadio Tecnológico. Atlante ‘s new legends from that championship entitle included : 2011 U-17 champion bus Raúl Gutiérrez, Felix Fernández, erstwhile Atlante coaches Miguel Herrera, José Guadalupe Cruz, and René Isidoro García, Pedro Massacessi, Wilson Graneolatti, Roberto Andrade, Guillermo Cantú, and feared strikers Luis Miguel Salvador and Daniel Guzmán. The team was crowned as ace for the second clock in 45 years. By winning the title, Atlante was again able to access the Concacaf Champions Cup, which finally was lost against Cartaginés of Costa Rica in the final match. After winning the backing title, Atlante was eliminated for the next years from the play-off stage, even with authoritative acquisitions such as Hugo Sánchez, Jorge Campos & Venezuelan player Gabriel Miranda, among others. once again, the team faced relegation issues ; consequently, Grupo Televisa decided to acquire Atlante and move it back again to the Estadio Azteca. With this boost, Atlante was able to be reinforced by luminary players, such as Zague, Martín Felix Ubaldi, José Damasceno Tiba, and Luis García, a well as the rename coach Miguel Mejía Barón, who just had a positive resultant role coaching the National team at United States ‘ World Cup 1994. Despite in having memorable campaigns, such as being the foremost all-championship drawing card for a short tournament ( Invierno 1996 ), and qualifying for the play-offs in Verano 1997 and Invierno 1997, the team did not accomplished any major results, and even had black moments such as the embarrassing play-off series against Toros Neza in Verano 1997, which was lost in a 9–2 global seduce .

The third “ relegation ” era [edit ]

several issues occurred in Atlante ‘s history during the last years of the twentieth Century, those identical issues that were going to define the team ‘s future. Inexperienced head coaches ( Zlatko Petricevic, Angel Cappa, Roberto Saporitti and Eduardo Rergis ) arriving to the team, decrepit and conceited players, and even a short decisiveness in changing the chief consistent ‘s colours of red & blue to orange, made the team and its followers to feel without identity. Fans began switching into other successful teams, and Atlante ‘s local matches began to feel lay waste to. Awful and drilling matches, poorish skill level and players without a real commitment to the team, led Atlante to face again relegation issues to Segunda División, now transformed into Primera División A.

The conversion of atlantismo [edit ]

A dangerous commitment has been taken since then by the directors ‘ board. After breaking up its relationship with Televisa and Alejandro Burillo Azcárraga ( owner of telecomm ‘s caller Pegaso ) being the lone owner, the young person horizontal surface program has been developed as the independent philosophy, which has made Atlante the team with most youth debuts at Primera División since 2000. First Carlos Reinoso, and then Miguel Herrera, both managed to build a newfangled spirit team with its own personality, and with fabulous players such as democratic Sebastián “ Chamagol ” González, Luis Gabriel Rey, and the emblematic goalkeeper Federico Vilar, the team returned to the spotlight of the playoffs, arriving in three quarter-final and two semi-final stages. The team suffered a fail move to a different venue, this time to the Estadio Azulgrana Neza 86, and back again to Estadio Azteca. former players ( now head coaches ) René Isidoro García and José Guadalupe Cruz struggled to maintain the intent, lastingness, and skill of this Atlante ‘s new earned run average. The miss of assistants to their dwelling matches remained as the major problem of the team, ascribable Mexico City teams ‘ miss of aid to local matches, a well as both the irregular football horizontal surface and the lack of identity for the team .

The third crown at Quintana Roo [edit ]

On May 14, 2007, Atlante formally left the Estadio Azteca because its games there were not profitable. This was largely due to poor attendance at its home matches. They hoped that the move to Estadio Andrés Quintana Roo of Cancún, Quintana Roo, would grow back its popularity and improve attendance. In a antic tournament, Atlante adapted promptly to its raw venue and began winning significant matches, either at home plate or visiting. Following a hood play-off against Cruz Azul and Guadalajara, Atlante faced Pumas UNAM for the title ‘s final examination series. On December 9, 2007, only 5 months after arriving at its new venue, and after a great series of matches played by goalkeeper Federico Vilar, angstrom well as noteworthy matches of Giancarlo Maldonado, Gabriel Pereyra, Javier Muñoz, José Joel “ El Chicharo ” González and Clemente Ovalle ( who scored the championship goal, 4 minutes before the end of the game ), Atlante earned its third gear championship, growing back its popularity nationally and particularly at its modern home city, Cancún. Atlante won the Apertura 2007 Championship and by doing thus, it qualified to the CONCACAF Champions ‘ Cup 2008, where they were eliminated by costa Rican Saprissa in the quarter-finals. By winning its style, Atlante qualified american samoa well to the SuperLiga 2008, where they were eliminated by the New England Revolution at the semi-final degree. Atlante joined Santos Laguna, Cruz Azul, and Pumas UNAM at the CONCACAF Champions League in its inaugural season 2008–09, where they reached the final equal against Cruz Azul. Atlante won the series 2–0, thus being crowned as CONCACAF Club Champion and earning the right to play at the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates .

The render to external limelight [edit ]

Along with the FIFA Club World Championship, Atlante was invited to replace Celtic at the Peace Cup in Andalucia, Spain, where it faced Málaga and Aston Villa. Atlante was soon eliminated with a single-goal difference against eventual champions Aston Villa. Atlante acquired Santiago Solari to reinforce the team. He was the last major figure since Hugo Sanchez ‘s skill in 1995, and joined a choice group of major external players to play for the golf club : Grzegorz Lato, Ruben “ Ratón ” Ayala, Ricardo La Volpe, Cabinho, Miodrag Belodedici, Ilie Dumitrescu, and Faustino Asprilla. At the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup, Atlante defeated Auckland City 3–0 at the quarter-final stage. For its following stop at semifinals, it faced Barcelona in a curious match featuring two Mexicans with the same appoint, Rafael Márquez Álvarez of Barcelona and Rafael Márquez Lugo of Atlante, and two teams with the lapp jersey colors. FIFA finally ruled out Barcelona to play with the blue-and-red stripes over Atlante. Atlante led the catch at the fourth moment, but the final examination score was a 3–1 frustration. For the third-place match, Atlante was defeated by Pohang Steelers in a penalty gunfight, missing two of their four shots, and finishing in one-fourth put .

Honours [edit ]

domestic championships [edit ]

Mexican Primera División: 3

Ascenso MX: 0

Segunda División de México: 2

1976–77, 1990–91

National Amateur League: 2

1931–32, 1940–41

Copa México: 3

1941–42, 1950–51, 1951–52

Runner-up (5): 1943–44, 1945–46, 1948–49, 1962–63, Clausura 2013

Campeón de Campeones: 2

1941–42, 1951–52

Runner-up (2): 1946–47, 1950–51

Liga de Expansión MX: 0

International championships [edit ]

Personnel [edit ]

Coaching staff [edit ]

Players [edit ]

First-team team [edit ]

As of 27 July 2021[2]

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