Atlas Guadalajara

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Atlas Guadalajara
Club logo
Basic data
Surname Atlas Fútbol Club
Seat Guadalajara , Mexico
founding 1916
(as Club Atlas)
Colours Red Black
president Pedro Portilla
Website atlasfc.com.mx
First soccer team
Head coach Leandro Cufré
Venue Estadio Jalisco
Places 56,713
league League MX
Clausura 2019 13th place
home
Away
Game scene from Atlas Guadalajara's appearance at Puebla FC on March 1, 2009.

The Atlas Fútbol Club (formerly Club Atlas and Club de Fútbol Atlas ), Atlas FC for short and generally known in German-speaking countries as Atlas Guadalajara , is a football club from Guadalajara , Mexico . The 1951 champions are the only first division team in Mexico to be organized as a real association and members control the Asociación Civil , the equivalent of a registered association .

The Estadio Jalisco was shared with local rivals Deportivo Guadalajara until the end of July 2010 and, since 2009, with the university club Leones Negros, which plays in the second division .

history

The club Atlas in 1916 in the southeast, from Guadalajara suburb of Tlaquepaque founded by a group of young people who longed for the game they while studying in England had met. The inspiration for the chosen club name was the Greek myth that a titan named Atlas carries the world on his shoulders. Founding member and namesake of the club was Juan José "Lico" Cortina , who won the Mexican championship a few years later with Club Asturias .

The fact that Atlas was founded through the direct import of football from England, but that Chivas got to know this sport in Mexico - through a foreigner, namely the Belgian Edgar Everaert - reveals a lot about the original milieu of the two most important clubs in the city. Because the founding members of Atlas all came from families of the local upper class, while the Club Deportivo Guadalajara, which was founded ten years earlier, became a gathering place for the local workforce from the start. A detailed description of the rivalry between these two clubs can be found here .

Atlas soon moved into an area in El Paradero (the Parque El Paradero venue ), which is on the way from Tlaquepaque to Guadalajara. The name of this place comes from a tram stop that used to be here. The football school for which the Atlistas were nicknamed "académicos" was born in this establishment.

As soon as Atlas was launched, it was able to take advantage of the fact that it had become acquainted with the game in the motherland of football. The book on the centenary of the Deportivo Guadalajara club, however, mentions the fact that Atlas was favored by some dubious referee decisions as an equally decisive advantage. In any case, it is certain that when he appeared, Atlas immediately broke the previous supremacy of Chivas and received four championship honors between 1918 and 1921 . But from 1922 the Club Guadalajara dominated again, which also won the championship four times in a row between 1922 and 1925 and for which the Club Nacional, founded in 1923, became the greatest sporting challenge in the years to come.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Atlas fell back a little and threatened to lose touch, while Club Nacional became the new main rival of Chivas in the city of Guadalajara. But Atlas recovered just in time to be accepted into the national professional league, newly introduced in 1943, along with Chivas as one of two founding members from the city of Guadalajara.

In the early years of the Primera División , Atlas had returned to its old strength, regularly left its old rival Chivas behind and in 1951 became the first club in the city to win the championship of Mexico. A success that could never be repeated. For the first time in the 1951/52 season, Atlas was placed behind Chivas. The deep fall came just two years later. At the end of the 1953/54 season, Atlas had to relegate to the second division for the first time.

The immediate ascent was successful. But the previously ten years of supremacy over Chivas was broken for a long time, especially since the city rival developed into a campeonisimo in the years to come ; to the outstanding team in Mexico.

The 1970s and 1980s were characterized by a constant struggle for survival and semi-finals for the state championship (like 1972/73 and 1984/85) were only a positive exception in this era. In contrast, Atlas went down twice in the second division (at the end of the 1970/71 and 1977/78 season), although in both cases at least the immediate return to the football club was possible.

But especially the third - and so far last - relegation in the spring of 1978 had set the club back. Since the resurgence in 1979, Atlas consumed his strength for years in a nerve-wracking battle for relegation. 1979/80 one held the class only because of one more point obtained compared to the Ors neighbor Jalisco . A year later Atlas had to compete in the relegation against Unión de Curtidores ; Against the opponent, of all people, against whom they failed in 1978. But this time the atlistas got the upper hand. In 1981/82 it was relegated again; this time against Tampico , against which you needed a third game to stay in the top division. Also in 1982/83 they persisted in relegation battle for a long time and finally saved themselves with three points ahead of Zacatepec . As if that weren't enough, it was difficult to secure a place in the class in the 1986/87 and 1988/89 seasons.

It was not until the 1990s that Atlas experienced a new renaissance. Since then, they have reached the semi-finals in the play-offs for the Mexican championship several times and almost regularly scored better points than their otherwise mostly overpowering neighbor Chivas in the overall annual evaluation of the ten seasons between 1992/93 and 2001/02. But while the Chivistas were able to win the championship once (1997) in this relatively bleak phase for them, the Atlistas only made it to the final in the 1998/99 Clausura once. But after two extremely dramatic and scoring games against Toluca (3: 3 and 2: 2), the red-blacks were ultimately a little unhappy with 4: 5 on penalties.

Champion team of the 1950/51 season

The championship team consisted of the following players: Raúl Córdoba (goalkeeper), Juan Gómez Chapetes (captain), Edwin Cubero , Adalberto "Dumbo" López , José "Chivo" Mercado , Javier Novello , Juan José Novo , Luis Ornelas, "El Negrito" Del Valle, Guadalupe Velázquez , Felipe Zetter . Also in the squad: Antonio Flores , Edmundo Manzotti .

successes

The "best team of all time"

Both the Mexican sports newspaper Récord and the Guadalajara daily El Informador have each identified a “dream team” of Club Atlas with the most important players in the history of the Rojinegros (the years in brackets describe the club membership). The two newspapers agree on seven positions and for the sake of clarity these players are highlighted in bold below. If there are four players there is a different opinion. These are shown in normal type.

The dream team identified by Récord : Luis Heredia (1949/50) - Guillermo Hernández (1963–1967), Rafael Márquez (1996–1999), Luis Ornelas (1946–1954), Felipe Zetter (1943–1955) - Juan José Novo ( 1948–1952), Juan Pablo Rodríguez (1997–2003), Andrés Guardado (2005–2007) - Edwin Cubero (1948–1954), José de Jesús Aceves (1974–1976 and 1983–1988), Ricardo Chavarín (1971–1975 ).

The dream team identified by the daily newspaper El Informador : Héctor Brambila (1969–1977) - Mario Méndez (1998–2003), Eduardo Berizzo (1993–1996), Rafael Márquez (1996–1999), Felipe Zetter (1943–1955) - Pepe Delgado (1965–1979), Juan Pablo Rodríguez (1997–2003), Andrés Guardado (2005–2007) - Ricardo Chavarín (1971–1975), José de Jesús Aceves (1974–1976 and 1983–1988), Edwin Cubero (1948 -1954).

Trainer

player

Celebrity fans

The well-known fans of Club Atlas include:

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Javier Bañuelos Renteria: Balón a tierra (1896–1932) (Editorial Clio, México 1998), p. 32 ISBN 970-663-022-8
  2. ^ Corazón Chiva: Cien años (Editorial Planeta Mexicana, Mexico City 2006), p. 23f ISBN 970-37-0385-2
  3. ↑ Juan Cid y Mulet: Libro de Oro del Fútbol Mexicano - Tomo II , B. Costa-Amic, Mexico City, p. 400
  4. ↑ Te presentamos el 11 ideal histórico del Atlas (Spanish; article from August 10, 2012)
  5. ↑ Atlas: Pasión hecha futbol (Spanish; article from August 10, 2016)
  6. ↑ Alejandro Fernández y Jorge Vergara apuestan por Chivas y Atlas (Spanish; article from May 10, 2017)
  7. ↑ a b ¿A quién le van los famosos en el futbol? (Spanish; article from June 3, 2015)
  8. ↑ a b #FAMOSOS: ¿A qué equipo de fut le van las celebridades MX y del mundo? 50 que quizá no sabías (Spanish; article from February 16, 2016)
  9. ↑ a b Aficionadas famosas de Chivas y Atlas (Spanish; article from February 9, 2017)