Club Atlas
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| Full name | Atlas Fútbol Club |
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| Nickname(s) |
Los Zorros (The Foxes) Los Rojinegros (The Red-and-Blacks) La Academia (The Academy) |
| Founded | 15 August 1916 |
| Ground |
Estadio Jalisco, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico |
| Capacity | 54,500 |
| Owner | Grupo Salinas |
| Chairman | Gustavo Guzmán |
| Manager | José Guadalupe Cruz |
| League | Liga MX |
| Clausura 2016 | 15th |
Atlas Fútbol Club (Spanish pronunciation: [kluβ ˈatɬas]) is a Mexican football club. Atlas plays in Guadalajara, Mexico, in the Liga MX. The club's home stadium is Estadio Jalisco in Guadalajara.
Club Atlas was founded in a bar of Guadalajara, Mexico, where a few friends recalled their football experience at English college 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 1910 to set up a football team called "Club Atlas" and founded it in Tlaquepaque, outside the city of Guadalajara.
The technical ability that the "Atlistas" employed – triangular passing and skillful dribbling to avoid opponents' tackles – was impressive and they quickly joined the elite in Mexican football. As a result, Atlas and Chivas, a fellow Guadalajara team, have a long history in the first division and the game between them is called the 'Clásico Tapatío'.
Atlas are renowned for having successful youth academies. In the last decade Atlas has been a true gold mine in the development of many players who have gone on to have successful careers domestically and internationally. Many young players enter the Atlas youth academy knowing that they'll have a strong possibility to play with the first team due to the club philosophy of allowing much opportunity to the youth. Although Atlas has only won the league championship once, their academy has been famous for developing national idols who have played with the Mexico national football team in the past decade like Jared Borgetti, Daniel Osorno, José de Jesús Corona, Pável Pardo, Oswaldo Sánchez, Rafael Márquez, Juan Carlos Medina, Jorge Hernández, Mario Méndez, Miguel Zepeda, Juan Pablo Rodriguez, Juan Pablo Garcia, Hugo Ayala, Jorge Torres Nilo, Edgar Ivan Pacheco, Andrés Guardado and many more. The club's lower youth divisions have achieved many titles domestically as well as internationally.
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