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Association football club in Belo Horizonte, BrazilFootball club
Clube Atlético Mineiro (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈklubi ɐˈtlɛtʃiku miˈne(j)ɾu]), commonly known as Atlético or🎉 Atlético Mineiro, and colloquially as Galo (pronounced [ˈgalu], "Rooster"), is the largest and oldest 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 level of Brazilian football, as well as in the Campeonato Mineiro, the top tier state league🎉 of Minas Gerais.
Atlético, the largest and oldest active football club in Minas Gerais, was founded on 25 March 1908 by🎉 twenty-two students from Belo Horizonte.
[3][4] Despite having upper-class founders, the club immediately opened its doors to players of every social🎉 class, establishing itself as a "people's club"[5][6][7] and becoming one of the most supported clubs in Brazil.
[8] The club's mascot,🎉 the rooster, has been strongly associated with Atlético since its introduction in the 1930s.
Over the years, the word Galo (Portuguese🎉 for "rooster") became a common nickname for the club itself.
The team's regular home kit comprises black-and-white striped shirts, black shorts🎉 and white socks.
Atlético has won the Campeonato Mineiro a record 48 times.
At the national level, the club has won the🎉 Campeonato Brasileiro twice and has finished second on five occasions.
It has also won Copa do Brasil twice and the Supercopa🎉 do Brasil, the Copa dos Campeões Estaduais and the Copa dos Campeões Brasileiros once each.
[9][10] In international club football, Atlético🎉 has won the Copa Libertadores and the Recopa Sudamericana once each, and a record two Copa CONMEBOL; the team has🎉 also reached three other continental finals.
The club has also competed in other sports throughout its history, with the futsal department🎉 becoming especially notable.
Atlético currently plays its home matches at the estádio Mineirão, the club has a local rivalry with Crüzeiro,🎉 with matches between the two teams referred to as the Clássico Mineiro.
The club also holds a local rivalry with América🎉 Mineiro and an interstate one with Flamengo.
Atlético has the sixth most valuable brand in Brazil, worth R$515.
5 million (€143 million)🎉 as of 2016, the 8th largest football crowd in Brazil and ranks seventh in the country in terms of turnover,🎉 generating R$244.6 million (€62.2 million) in 2015.[11]
Atlético is currently building a new stadium, the Arena MRV, which will have a🎉 capacity of over 48,000 spectators.
Its inauguration happened in April 15, 2023 and its first official match is expected to take🎉 place in August 2023.
[12][13]History [ edit ]
Early years and achievements (1908–1949) [ edit ]
The Atlético Mineiro team that won the🎉 Taça Bueno Brandão in 1914, the 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 club's first match🎉 was played against Sport Club Futebol on 21 March 1909; Atlético won 3–0, with the first goal scored by Aníbal🎉 Machado.
[3] In 1913, the club's name was officially changed to Clube Atlético Mineiro, and in the following year Atlético won🎉 the Taça Bueno Brandão, the first competition ever held in the state of Minas Gerais.
[14] In 1915, the club won🎉 the inaugural edition of the Campeonato Mineiro, the state league of Minas Gerais.
The competition was then organised by the Liga🎉 Mineira de Sports Athléticos, which would later become the Federação Mineira de Futebol (FMF).[15]
Atlético won the league again in 1926,🎉 led by striker Mário de Castro.
[16] 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 triumph.
[17][18] In 1929, the club played its first🎉 international encounter, 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 year and would become the club's home for the following two decades.[19]
Atlético won the state🎉 league in 1931 and 1932, before becoming a professional club in 1933.
[20] After another Campeonato Mineiro triumph in 1936, Atlético🎉 won the Copa dos Campeões Estaduais in 1937, its first title at national level.
The competition was organised by the Federação🎉 Brasileira de Foot-Ball, a federation for professional clubs that would later merge into the Brazilian Sports Confederation (CBD).
The Copa dos🎉 Campeões Estaduais was contested by the 1936 state 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 match, played at the Antônio Carlos stadium.
[21]🎉 Guará rose as the club's top player during that period,[22] and the interstate title was followed by two more Campeonato🎉 Mineiro victories, in 1938 and 1939.[23]
Success continued in the 1940s, with a squad that included Carlyle, Lucas Miranda, Nívio and🎉 goalkeeper Kafunga.
[24] The club was dominant in the state as it won the league in 1941, 1942, 1946, 1947 and🎉 1949.
[23] Although América had been Atlético's long-standing adversary, a new rivalry started to develop with Crüzeiro in the 1940s, as🎉 it became Galo's main challenger 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 newer and larger Estádio Independência.
The season saw another Campeonato Mineiro triumph and🎉 the club's first European tour, in which it played ten games in five countries.
The excursion happened at a time when🎉 there were neither regular 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 achievement for Brazilian football itself.
[25][26] The team, captained by Zé do Monte, was dubbed the Campeões🎉 do Gelo ("Ice Champions"), a title that is remembered in the club's official anthem.
[27][28] The club's success in the state🎉 competition continued in the 1950s, a decade that saw the rise of forward Ubaldo and five consecutive 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 following year, reaching the third round.
[29] The tournament, the country's first annual nationwide competition, was a cup🎉 contested between state league champions, originally created by the CBD to select Brazil's entrants in the newly formed Copa Libertadores.[30]
The🎉 Atlético Mineiro team, 1970.
In the 1960s, Atlético won the Campeonato Mineiro twice, in 1962 and 1963, but failed to advance🎉 to the later 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 rivalry with Crüzeiro became the biggest in the state, after this club won🎉 the first five state leagues of the Mineirão era.
In 1967, another national-level competition was created by the CBD, the Torneio🎉 Roberto Gomes Pedrosa.
[30] 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 form of friendlies🎉 against national sides.
In 1968, Atlético, representing the Brazilian national team, defeated European Championship runners-up Yugoslavia 3–2 at the Mineirão;[31] the🎉 following year, the Seleção itself, which would become champions of the 1970 FIFA World Cup, was defeated 2–1.[32]
National success and🎉 state dominance (1970–1989) [ edit ]
Dario (here pictured in 2014) was the top goalscorer and led Galo to triumph in🎉 the 1971 Brasileirão.
With the arrival of Telê Santana as the club's head coach in 1970, Galo broke Crüzeiro's sequence and🎉 won its first state league title in the Mineirão,[33] also finishing third in the last Roberto Gomes Pedrosa.
In 1971, captained🎉 by midfielder Oldair and with World Cup-winning forward Dario as the league's top goalscorer, Atlético won the Campeonato Brasileiro.
It was🎉 the first edition of the competition, also known as the Brasileirão, which replaced both the Taça Brasil and the Roberto🎉 Gomes Pedrosa as the new national championship.
[30] Atlético played a final group stage against São Paulo and Botafogo, defeating the🎉 former 1–0 at the Mineirão and the latter 1–0 at the Maracanã.
[34] The victory also secured the club's first participation🎉 in an official continental competition, the 1972 Copa Libertadores, in which it did not advance past the first group stage.
[35]🎉 After four trophyless years, Atlético won the state league again in 1976 and finished third in the Campeonato Brasileiro.
That season🎉 saw the emergence of a golden generation of players, formed in the club's youth academies under coach Barbatana.
[36][37] Reinaldo, Toninho🎉 Cerezo, Éder, Luizinho, Paulo Isidoro and João Leite, players who represented Brazil at international level, were central to the team🎉 that took Atlético to six consecutive state league victories between 1978 and 1983, and to good results in the Série🎉 A.
[38][39] Atlético came second in the 1977 Brasileirão, losing the final to São Paulo in a penalty shootout at the🎉 Mineirão, despite remaining undefeated for the entire season.
Reinaldo, the league's top scorer in that season with an average of 1.
56🎉 goals per match, was banned from the final.
By his account, this was because of his insistence on celebrating his goals🎉 by raising his fist, a political symbol that opposed the Brazilian military government of the time.
[40] In 1978, Atlético reached🎉 the Copa Libertadores semi-finals and won the Copa dos Campeões Brasileiros, a tournament organised by the CBD between past winners🎉 of the Brasileirão.
In a repetition of the previous year's Brasileiro decisive match, the opponent in the final of this competition🎉 was São Paulo, with Atlético this time winning a penalty shootout.[41]
In 1980, after having the best record in the first🎉 stages of the Brasileirão, Atlético lost to Flamengo in a controversial final of the competition.
Three Galo players were bizarrely sent🎉 off, among them Reinaldo, who received a straight red card after scoring twice.
[42][43][44] The team was then eliminated from the🎉 following 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.
[44][45][46] During the 1980s, the club participated in and won international friendly competitions,🎉 such as the Amsterdam Tournament and the Tournoi de Paris.
[47][48] 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 half of the decade, the club continued its success in the state, winning the Campeonato Mineiro🎉 in 1985, 1986, 1988 and 1989.
[23] Atlético was one of Brazil's top sides of the 1980s, providing many players to🎉 the Brazilian national team, being dominant at state level and having good performances in the Brasileiro, but a tendency to🎉 lose in its final knockout stages prevented a new title in this competition.[49][50]
Continental efforts and financial turmoil (1990–2009) [ edit🎉 ]
In the following decade, Atlético won the state league in 1991 and first saw 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 first official international title.
[51] As champion of that competition, the club took part in the 1993 Copa de Oro,🎉 in which it eliminated rivals Crüzeiro in the semi-finals but eventually lost to Argentina's Boca Juniors.
[52] 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 second time.
This one ended in defeat to Argentine team Rosario Central on penalties, after Atlético won the🎉 first leg by 4–0 and lost the second one by the same score.
[53] 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 match.
[54] The team also finished third in that year's🎉 Brasileiro and fourth in the following edition, falling in the semi-finals of both seasons.
Another triumph 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 time.
[55] In 1999, after another Campeonato Mineiro title, a Galo side led by Marques and Guilherme,🎉 the top scorer in the league, reached the Série A finals for the fourth time, but lost to Corinthians.
Despite international🎉 success and good performances in the Série A, the decade was marked by bad club administration by Atlético's presidents and🎉 deteriorating finances, which made the club one of the most indebted in Brazilian football.[56]
In 2000, Atlético won the Campeonato Mineiro,🎉 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 following year, despite a good performance in the Brasileirão with a squad that included Marques, Guilherme🎉 and Gilberto Silva, the team was eliminated in the competition's semi-finals, eventually finishing in fourth place.
Atlético then finished in the🎉 upper part of the national league table in the following two seasons, but in 2004 it barely escaped relegation.
In 2005🎉 the club was demoted to the Série B, the second level of the Brasileirão.[57]
On the following year with Levir Culpi🎉 as head coach, the club won promotion at the first attempt as Série B champion in 2006, returning to the🎉 Série A for the 2007 season.
[57] That year, Atlético won the Campeonato Mineiro, its first trophy in seven years, and🎉 finished eighth in the national league.
Alexandre Kalil was chosen as the club's new president in 2008, and tried to improve🎉 its finances and status.
[58] In 2009, with Diego Tardelli in good form, Galo led the Brasileirão for eight of the🎉 thirty-eight rounds, before eventually finishing in seventh place.
[59] Despite some highlights at the beginning and end of the decade, the🎉 2000s were not a successful period in the club's history, again marked by bad administration and frequent managerial changes.[60]
Ronaldinho played🎉 an important part in the club's resurgence after his arrival in 2012.
Resurgence and international success (2010-2017) [ edit ]
The team🎉 won its 40th 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 club.
[61] The club moved back to the Independência in 2012, as the Mineirão was closed🎉 for renovation, and won the Campeonato Mineiro undefeated.
The arrival of Ronaldinho in the middle of the season was an important🎉 event for the club,[62][63] which eventually finished as runner-up in the Série A and earned a spot in the following🎉 year's Copa Libertadores.[64]
Diego Tardelli and Gilberto Silva returned to the club in 2013 and joined Ronaldinho, Jô and Bernard towards🎉 another Campeonato Mineiro triumph.
The quarter-finals of that season's Copa Libertadores saw an iconic moment for Atlético, when a penalty kick🎉 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 Victor with his foot.
The save, according to sports commentators and fans, represented the "kicking out" of🎉 the club's historic "jinx".
[65][66][67] Atlético then defeated Argentina's Newell's Old Boys in the semi-finals and Olimpia in the finals on🎉 penalties, after losing both first legs by 2–0 and winning the second ones by the same score, to claim its🎉 first Copa Libertadores title.
[68][69] 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 eventually finished in third place after defeating China's Guangzhou Evergrande.[70]
Under Levir🎉 Culpi, who returned to the club in 2014, Atlético won its first Recopa Sudamericana, defeating Lanús for the second time🎉 in a continental final.
[71] 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 advanced.
[72][73] The competition's finals were the first at a🎉 national level to feature them and Atlético defeated Crüzeiro on both encounters to win its first Copa do Brasil.
[74] The🎉 club's successful run in the decade continued in 2015, when it won the Campeonato Mineiro and finished second in the🎉 Campeonato Brasileiro.
[75][76] 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 fourth place in the Brasileiro.
[77] The club achieved its 44th Campeonato Mineiro title🎉 in 2017.[78]
New Golden age (2021–) [ edit ]
On 2 December 2021, after finishing 3rd place in the 2020 Campeonato Brasileiro🎉 Série A, they won their second Série A title after 49 years, beating Bahia in a thrilling 2–3 outstanding match🎉 to win the title.
Less than two weeks later, on 15 December, they beat Athletico Paranaense in the 2021 Copa do🎉 Brasil Finals after a 4–0 win at home, the largest thrash in a Copa do Brasil finals, and a 1–2🎉 away win to secure Galo's second Copa do Brasil trophy.
On 20 February 2022, in a penalty shootout after a 2–2🎉 draw with Flamengo, they won the 2022 Supercopa do Brasil after more than 15 penalties.
On 9 April 2023, Atlético won🎉 the 2023 Campeonato Mineiro for the fourth consecutive year, the first time it happened in 42 years (1978–81), and for🎉 the third time in its history.
Symbols and colours [ edit ]
The first crest used by Atlético MineiroCrest [ edit ]
The🎉 club's first emblem, introduced in the 1910s, consisted of a simple design of the three initials of the club's name🎉 ("CAM" for Clube Atlético Mineiro) in an oval shape in black.
The first and most significant change occurred in 1922, when🎉 an edged shield format was adopted, with the letters in its upper part and black and white stripes in the🎉 lower.
[79] The crest's general appearance has been kept ever since, with only the exact format and the placement of the🎉 black and white stripes within the escutcheon changing over the decades.
In the 1970s a golden star above the badge was🎉 introduced, alluding to the 1971 Série A title, which still remains.
[80] Red stars were featured on two occasions, referring to🎉 the 1978 Copa dos Campeões and the 1992 and 1997 Copa CONMEBOL victories, but these were removed in 1999.[81]
Galo Doido🎉 ("Crazy Rooster"), the club's stadium mascotMascot [ edit ]
Atlético's mascot, a rooster, is the best known in the country.
[82] According🎉 to Kafunga, who played as goalkeeper for the club from 1935 to 1955, the "rooster" nickname was associated with Atlético🎉 because of its kit colours.
[83] 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 rooster because the team used to play with passion and would never give up until the end of🎉 each match, like gamecocks in cockfights.[84][85]
Over the years, the word galo (Portuguese for "rooster") became a cheering chant for the🎉 supporters and a nickname by which they referred to the club, an appellation that eventually spread to other football fans🎉 in the country.
[86] The nickname was incorporated into the club's official anthem, composed by Vicente Motta in 1968, whose chorus🎉 hails Atlético as a "strong and avenging rooster".
[27][87] In 1976, a costumed rooster 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.[88]Kits [ edit ]
The club's home kit has always consisted of a black-and-white vertically striped shirt, with black🎉 shorts and white or black socks.
The width of the black and white stripes has varied from season to season, as🎉 has the colour of the shirt numbers, which have usually been red, black, white or yellow.
Atlético's traditional away kit is🎉 all-white shirts, shorts and socks, but has had slight variations.
[89] An all-black third kit was introduced in the 2000 season,🎉 being used again in 2015.
[90] In 2008, a black-and-gold vertically striped third kit was launched to commemorate the club's centenary,🎉 featuring the first crest.
[91] Squad number 12 is retired from the club's kits, dedicated to the fans.[92]
Since the 1981 season,🎉 the club has had its kits manufactured by sportswear corporations, the first one being Brazilian company Rainha.
[93] Since 2017, Atlético's🎉 kits are manufactured by Topper, a company which previously provided apparel for the club from 2010 to 2012.
[94][95] Other previous🎉 suppliers were Adidas (1983–85), Penalty (1986–90, 1992–93 and 1997–2001),[93] Dell'erba (1991), Umbro (1994–96 and 2002–04),[96] Diadora (2005–07), Lotto (2008–09), Lupo🎉 (2013),[97] Puma (2014–2015) and Dryworld (2016).[98][99]
In 1982, bank Credireal was Atlético's first shirt sponsor.
[93] 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,[100] and the brand remained on Atlético's kits until 1994.
The club was🎉 subsequently sponsored by TAM Airlines (1995–96), Tenda (1997–98),[96] and had temporary deals with Fiat and Telemar in 1999.
[101] Two sponsorless🎉 years followed, before permanent deals were signed with Fiat (2002–03), MRV Engenharia (2004–07) and Fiat again in 2008.
[102][103] After one🎉 more season without a brand on the club's shirts, BMG, a bank that was owned by the former club president🎉 Ricardo Annes Guimarães,[104] was the main sponsor from 2010 to 2014.
MRV returned as the club's main shirt sponsor in 2015,[105]🎉 being replaced by state-owned bank Caixa Econômica Federal in 2016.
[106]Grounds [ edit ]
Estádio Presidente Antônio Carlos was Atlético Mineiro's home🎉 ground from 1929 to 1950.
Atlético had its first home ground built in 1912 at Paraopeba Avenue, in downtown Belo Horizonte,🎉 across the street from América's first stadium.
[107] The club's main ground 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 following year, the stadium was visited by FIFA president Jules🎉 Rimet, who watched a night game for the first time.
[108] The stadium fell out of favor when the larger Independência🎉 was built in 1950, and remained largely unused by the first team; eventually it was sold by the club to🎉 the Belo Horizonte municipality in the 1960s.
After decades of legal disputes with the municipal government, the property returned to the🎉 club in 1991.
It was leased to a shopping mall in 1995, which was built in the following year where the🎉 stadium once was, across the street from Atlético's administrative headquarters.[109]
Independência, the club's first choice home stadium from 1950 to 1965,🎉 and from 2012 to 2019
Construction for the Independência (officially Estádio Raimundo Sampaio) started in 1947 in preparation for the 1950🎉 FIFA World Cup, during which its first match was played.
[110] Originally the property of the State Government of Minas Gerais,🎉 ownership 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.
[111] 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 construction, however, Atlético did not use the Estádio do Horto (as it is also known) for decades, except🎉 for a brief spell in the late 1990s.
The stadium was renovated in 2012, while the Mineirão was closed, having its🎉 capacity reduced to 23,018.
In that year, Atlético announced a deal with BWA Arenas, the stadium manager.
The club signed a contract🎉 to use the Independência as its home ground for 10 years, but moved back to the Mineirão in 2020.[19]
Mineirão, Atlético's🎉 ground for most of its history, was renovated for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Mineirão (officially Estádio Governador Magalhães Pinto) opened🎉 in 1965 and quickly became Galo's new home,[112] as its peak capacity of over 100,000 spectators surpassed any other stadium🎉 in Belo Horizonte or in Minas Gerais.
Property of the State of Minas Gerais, Mineirão was Atlético's home from its opening🎉 until its closure in 2010 for renovations prior to the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
The club temporarily moved to Arena do🎉 Jacaré in Sete Lagoas and subsequently to Independência in 2012.
[113] Historically the club's home ground, Atlético's most important matches have🎉 all been played at the Mineirão.
[114][115] After the renovation, the Mineirão has an overall capacity of 61,846.[116]
Cidade do Galo ("Rooster🎉 City"), the club's main training facility since 2001, has been lauded as the best in Brazil and is considered one🎉 of the best in the world;[117][118] it hosted the Argentina national football team at the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
[119] Other🎉 facilities owned by the club include Vila Olímpica ("Olympic Village"), the old training grounds opened in 1973 that hosted the🎉 Seleção in its preparation for the 1982 FIFA World Cup, and Labareda, a leisure and health club in Belo Horizonte.
[108]🎉 In 2015, Daniel Nepomuceno, the club president, announced that Atlético had a four-year project to build a new stadium in🎉 Belo Horizonte, with a 45,000 capacity.
[120][121] In 2017, the club's Deliberative Council approved the project to build the new stadium,🎉 in northeastern Belo Horizonte, named Arena MRV.
The construction is projected to cost R$410 million,[122] and expected to be inaugurated on🎉 the third quarter of 2022.
[123]Supporters [ edit ]
A Massa supporting Atlético Mineiro at the Mineirão in 2013
Atlético Mineiro was founded🎉 by upper-class students, but from an early age it opened its doors to players from every social class, nationality or🎉 ethnicity, which earned it a "people's club" status in Belo Horizonte and in the state.
América, meanwhile, had a reputation as🎉 an elitist club similarly to Crüzeiro which was strongly associated with the local Italian colony.
[5][6] As a result of vast🎉 popular support, the fans came to be collectively known as "A Massa" (Portuguese for "the mass").
[124] According to a 2014🎉 survey conducted by IBOPE and Lance!, the club is the second best-supported in Belo Horizonte and in Minas Gerais and🎉 has the eighth largest fanbase in Brazil, with over five million supporters.
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 notable groups include Galö🎉 Metal, Movimento 105 Minutos and the Charanga, a brass 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 number 12 is retired from the club's kits and dedicated to the fans.[92]
Chart with Atlético🎉 Mineiro's average attendances in the national league from 1971 to 2015
Atlético has had the best average attendance in nine editions🎉 of the Série A since 1972, and has the second highest all-time average attendance in Brazilian football.
[129] The club also🎉 ranks second in all-time total attendance in the national league, with more than 13 million tickets sold in 581 home🎉 matches as of the 2014 season.
[130][131][132] The second leg of the 2013 Copa Libertadores finals between Atlético and Olimpia, played🎉 at the Mineirão and attended by 58,620 people, had the highest gate receipt revenue of all time in South American🎉 football, yielding R$14.2 million (€4.
8 million at the time).[133]
In 1999, the club introduced Galo de Prata ("Silver Rooster"), a trophy🎉 officially awarded by Atlético to sportspeople, illustrious supporters, artists, politicians, and organisations that somehow promote the club's name.
[134] Since the🎉 implementation of municipal and state laws in 2007 and 2008, Dia do Atleticano ("Atleticano Day") is officially celebrated in Belo🎉 Horizonte and Minas Gerais every year on 25 March, the day of the club's foundation.
[135][136] Atlético launched TV Galo in🎉 2007, a premium television channel that provides content for fans such as interviews with players and staff, coverage of training🎉 sessions and matches, footballing news, and other themed programming.
[137] Since 2012, the club has an affiliation programme called Galo na🎉 Veia, in which supporters can become season ticket holders or pay an annual or monthly fees to buy match tickets🎉 at reduced price.
[138]Rivalries [ edit ]
The local rivalry between Atlético and Crüzeiro, known as the Clássico Mineiro ("Mineiro Derby"), started🎉 years after the latter's foundation as Sociedade Esportiva Palestra Itália in 1921.
It strengthened in the 1940s and became the biggest🎉 derby in Minas Gerais in the 1960s.
[6][139] Atlético dominated the rivalry from its early days until the late 1950s, Crüzeiro🎉 rose in the 1960s to be a strong challenger and the 1970s had divided honours.
[140] The 1980s were dominated by🎉 Atlético, while the 1990s and 2000s were favourable to Crüzeiro.
The 2010s have the rivals competing at an even level.
The 2020s🎉 have so far been dominated by Atlético, partly due to its rivals' three years in a row in relegation level🎉 of Brazilian national football.
The clubs dissent over the number of matches and head-to-head record of the Clássico Mineiro, but both🎉 teams' statistics show Atlético with most wins in the encounter: 518 matches, 210 wins, 138 draws and 171 losses (as🎉 of June 2023).
[141] The only national final between the two clubs happened in the 2014 Copa do Brasil, when Atlético🎉 triumphed in a final match played at the Mineirão.
[74] The Clássico's most extreme result was a 9–2 win 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 years, América was🎉 known as an elitist club, while Atlético had popular appeal;[5] the former dominated the early years of the encounter, winning🎉 ten 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 setback🎉 as a result of its internal disagreements regarding professionalism.[145]
Atlético also holds a rivalry with Flamengo of Rio de Janeiro, with🎉 the first match between the clubs being played in 1929.
Until regular national competitions were introduced in Brazilian football in 1959,🎉 however, the encounters were played at friendly level, since the clubs are from different states.
The rivalry developed in the 1980s,🎉 rising from numerous tendentious events and controversial encounters between the two clubs in Campeonato Brasileiro and Copa Libertadores editions of🎉 the period.
It remained through the following decades and is considered the biggest interstate rivalry in Brazilian football.[146]
Records and statistics [🎉 edit ]
Bernard, who won the 2013 Copa Libertadores with Atlético, is the club's record sale.
João Leite holds Atlético's official appearance🎉 record, with 684 matches in all competitions.
[147] Reinaldo is the club's all-time leading 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 total goals, with 211, and the only other Atlético player to score over 200 goals.
[150] Argentine striker Lucas Pratto🎉 is Atlético's all-time top foreign goalscorer, with 41 goals.
[151][152] Telê Santana is Galo's longest-serving head coach, having taken charge 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 first 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 win 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 also the competition's record victory.
[157]🎉 The club's home attendance 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 match against Santos for the 1983 Brasileirão.
[158] Atlético🎉 holds the Brazilian record for longest unbeaten run at home, with 54 matches from 2011 to 2013.
[159][160] The signing of🎉 André from Dynamo Kyiv in 2012 is the club's most expensive purchase, costing around €8 million,[161] while the record sale🎉 is the transfer of Bernard to Shakhtar Donetsk in 2013, which cost the Ukrainian club €25 million.[162]
Organization and finances [🎉 edit ]
As is the case for most Brazilian football clubs, Atlético Mineiro's by-law defines the club as a not-for-profit 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🎉 club.
[163] Season ticket-holders and participants of the Galo na Veia affiliation programme, called sócios-torcedores, are not full club associates and🎉 cannot vote or be elected.[164]
A study conducted by BDO in 2016 indicated that the club had a brand value of🎉 R$515.
5 million (€143 million), making it the eighth most valuable in Brazil.
[11] In terms of annual turnover, Atlético ranked seventh🎉 in the country in 2015, earning R$244.6 million (€62.
2 million), which represented a 37 per cent increase compared to the🎉 previous year.
[11][165] The club has a main sponsorship deal with Caixa Econômica Federal, worth R$12.5 million (€3.
2 million) annually.
[106] Its🎉 kit sponsorship deal with Dryworld, worth R$20 million (€5.
1 million) per year, is the third biggest in the country.[166]
Clube Atlético🎉 Mineiro headquarters in Belo Horizonte.
The club's gross debt as of 2015 was R$496.5 million (€126.
6 million), the third largest in🎉 Brazil, with a R$11.
9 million (€3 million) deficit in the same year.
[11] The club's balance sheet in that year stated🎉 it experienced operational losses, and according to a study by Itaú BBA, Atlético operates in a dangerous "financial all-in".
[165][167] The🎉 majority of the club's debt is owed to the Federal Government of Brazil, totaling R$286.6 million (€89.
1 million); in 2015,🎉 Atlético and other clubs joined a government program 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 Crüzeiro; the🎉 video won three categories at the 1997 MTV Video Music Brazil awards.
[169] An Atlético match was also depicted in a🎉 Martian Manhunter comic book, by DC Comics, in 2015.
[170] The protagonist in Memories of the Desert, a 2014 Brazilian crime🎉 drama film, is a supporter of the club (as is the actor who portrayed him, Daniel de Oliveira).[171]
A short 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 following year, O Dia do Galo, a documentary that followed five Atlético supporters🎉 on the day of the final match of the same competition, was released in theatres as a feature film.
The motion🎉 picture was one of the most watched Brazilian films of 2015, and won the Popular Jury award at the Mostra🎉 de Cinema de Tiradentes.
[173][174] O Imortal do Gelo, a film about the club's 1950 tour to Europe, was released in🎉 2015.
[175] Another film called Lutar, Lutar, Lutar was released in 2021 and it focuses on the club's history and honours,🎉 while also remembering the tendentious decisions against the club in the 1980s.
Honours [ edit ]
Atlético Mineiro's first trophy was the🎉 Taça Bueno Brandão, won in 1914.
The club was the first winner of the Campeonato Mineiro, the state league of Minas🎉 Gerais, a competition it has won a record 48 times; it has also won the Taça Minas Gerais, a state🎉 cup, on five occasions.
At national level, Atlético has won the Campeonato Brasileiro twice, while finishing second on five seasons; and🎉 also won the Copa do Brasil twice, winning their second titles of both the two major national tournaments in the🎉 same year, 2021, a feat only achieved once by any other club in the country, their city rivals Crüzeiro; it🎉 has also won the Copa dos Campeões Estaduais, and the Copa dos Campeões Brasileiros once each, also 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 club has also 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🎉 club's most recent title is the 2023 Campeonato Mineiro.[176]
Continental [ edit ]National [ edit ]State [ edit ]City [ edit🎉 ]
Taça Bueno Brandão [187] Winner (1): 1914
Copa Belo Horizonte [188] Winner (1): 1959 (Record)Players [ edit ]
For a list of🎉 notable former and current Atlético Mineiro players, see List of Clube Atlético Mineiro players
For a list of all former and🎉 current players with a Wikipedia article, see Category:Clube Atlético Mineiro players
First team squad [ edit ]
As of 2 August 2023.[189]
Note:🎉 Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules.
Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Youth players with first🎉 team appearances [ edit ]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules.
Players may hold more than one🎉 non-FIFA nationality.
Out on loan [ edit ]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules.
Players may hold more🎉 than one non-FIFA nationality.
Management [ edit ]
Team management [ edit ]
Atlético Mineiro's technical and medical staff is composed of permanent🎉 members in all positions, except head coach and assistant coach.[190]
Last updated: 16 June 2023
Source: Comissão Técnica – Atlético (in Portuguese)Club🎉 board [ edit ]
The club's board took office on 4 January 2021, with its term ending on 31 December 2023.[191]
Position🎉 Name President Vice-president Presidential adviser CEO Competitions director Director of communications Medical director Legal director Director of finance Director of🎉 finance - Subsidiaries Director of infrastructure Business director Director of institutional relations Women's football director Engineering director Labareda director Vila🎉 Olímpica director
Other departments [ edit ]Futsal [ edit ]
Atlético Mineiro opened its futsal department in the 1960s, achieving victories at🎉 state level in the following decades, and winning the Taça Brasil in 1985.
[192] In the late 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 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.
[193] In the second leg of the 1999 Liga Futsal🎉 finals against Rio de Janeiro, the attendance at Mineirinho was 25,713, a world record in the sport.
[194] In 2000, the🎉 sponsorship deal with Pax de Minas ended and Atlético's professional senior futsal team folded in the following year, with the🎉 youth sectors remaining.
[195] The club's futsal department ceased operations in 2009.[196]
In March 2018, the club announced the creation of an🎉 American football team, a three-year partnership with Grupo Sada and BH Eagles, named Galo Futebol Americano.
[197][198] In its first 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.[199][200]
Olympic sports🎉 [ edit ]
Atlético Mineiro had departments for other Olympic sports throughout its history, with the athletics and volleyball ones achieving🎉 notability.
In 1983, runner João da Mata won the São Silvestre road race as an Atlético athlete.
[201] 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 marketing strategy.
[202] Atlético's men's volleyball department won the🎉 Minas Gerais Volleyball Championship a total of twelve times, ranking second in the state for most titles.
The team had an🎉 especially successful period in the early 1980s, under the administrative management of Alexandre Kalil, who became club president in 2009.
[203]See🎉 also [ edit ]References [ edit ]
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