Atlántida Sports Club

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The Atlántida Sport Club is a football club from Obrero, a district of Asunción , the capital of Paraguay . In the early years the club was three times runners-up and twice champions of an alternative league. Since the second half of the 1950s, Atlántida, Spanish for Atlantis , has been maneuvering between second and third class. Atlántida plays its home games at the Estadio Flaviano Díaz , which has a capacity of 1,000 people.

The club, which was founded on December 23, 1906 and is also known as El Oceánico and El Negriazul , is one of the oldest football clubs in the country and took part in the second round of the national championship in 1907. In 1910 Atlántida became runner-up, and only lost 2-1 in a necessary play-off against Club Libertad . In 1911 Atlántida was again runner-up.

In 1912 the club joined other clubs such as Libertad in the alternative Liga Centenario created in the previous year , which from 1916 operated under the name Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol (not to be confused with the later name of the national association ), whose championship Atlántida 1915 and theirs last draw won in 1917.

From 1918 the club played again in the regular first division, the Liga Paraguaya de Football , but did not get beyond middle places until relegation in 1925. After two years the ascent took place again. After the Chaco War , Atlántida was one of the founders of professional gaming in Paraguay and was runner-up in 1936. In the following season, as well as in 1940 and 1944, the club was the last, but this remained without consequence, as in those years there was neither promotion nor relegation. A renewed degree in last place in 1950 then led to the second descent in the club's history. However, the immediate resurgence followed.

After relegated again in 1954, the club was unable to return, but Atlántida has been castling between the second and third division since then.

Known players

Atlántida’s ranks included the national striker César López Fretes , who won two championships with Club Olimpia in the mid-1940s , and Eulogio Martínez , one of the greatest strikers in Paraguayan football history, who was part of the “Team of the Century” at Club Libertad in 1955 "and enjoyed great success with FC Barcelona until the 1960s . At the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, where the Paraguayan national soccer team gave their most successful performance so far , two players, Víctor Cáceres and Paulo César Da Silva , came from the youth of Atlántida.

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