Clube Atlético Mineiro commonly known Atlético and referred to as Galo, is a Brazilian multisport club based in Lourdes, a bairro nobre in the city of Belo Horizonte. Although they compete in a number of different sports, Atlético Mineiro is mostly known for its association football team. It plays in the Campeonato Mineiro, the State of Minas Gerais’s premier state league, as well as the Brasileirão, the top tier of the Brazilian football league system. Atlético Mineiro are the reigning South American and Mineiro champions, having won the 2013 Copa Libertadores and 2013 Campeonato Mineiro.
The club was founded on March 25, 1908 by 22 Belorizontino students, being led by Margival Mendes Leal and Mário Toledo as a response to the social discrimination practiced by many clubs elsewhere in Brazil. Despite being founded by upper class founders, the club opened its doors to everyone regardless of social class, quickly establishing itself as a “people’s club”. As a result, the club has the most supporters in the city and the second largest supporters in the state. Atlético Mineiro is also the oldest club of Belo Horizonte. Atlético Mineiro play their home games at the Estádio Independência, better known as the Independência, which currently holds up to 23.018 spectators. Atlético’s regular kit is black and white striped shirts, with black shorts, accompanied by white socks. Lupo are the kit manufacturers currently.
Atlético is one of Brazil’s most successful clubs, having won the Brasileirão in 1971. Atlético Mineiro has also won the defunct Copa dos Campeões Estaduais and Copa dos Campeões da Copa Brasil once each. They have won the Campeonato Mineiro 42 times, being the record-holder as the most successful club in that competition. O Galo is also the best performing club of the now-defunct Copa CONMEBOL after the victories in 1992 and 1997; they were also finalists in 1995. Atlético also won the Copa Libertadores in 2013 with a squad composed of stars such as Bernard, Diego Tardelli, Jô, Victor and Ronaldinho, and are thus one of ten Brazilian clubs to have won it. The club managed to perform a double in 2013, winning both the Mineiro and the Copa Libertadores.
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Atlético hold a long-standing rivalry against Cruzeiro. It has contributed many key and famous players towards Brazil’s FIFA World Cup squads such as Dario, Luizinho, Toninho Cerezo, Éder, Elzo, Cláudio Taffarel, and Gilberto Silva. The club is the 9th most valuable club in Brazil, worth almost $94 million. In terms of revenue, Atlético Mineiro is also one of Brazil’s richest sports club and the 10th biggest football club in Brazil, generating an annual turnover of over $54 million in 2012.
It was only in 1970 that Atlético won its first championship in Mineirão Stadium, breaking Cruzeiro’s five titles sequence. In 1971, the club won its first and only Brazilian Championship in history. In 1976, Atlético won the State Championship again and also finished in third place in the 1976 Brazilian Championship. They also finished runners-up in the 1977 championship, despite not being defeated for the entire season. In 1978, Atlético won the Copa dos Campeões, a tournament between the past winners of the Brazilian Championship, defeating São Paulo Futebol Clube in the final.
Since 1977 Atlético made a great team, that would last until middle of 1980s, one of the best in its history. This team that had players like Reinaldo, Toninho Cerezo, Éder, Luisinho, Paulo Isidoro, João Leite won the state championship 6 times in a row, from 1978 to 1983, winning also in 1985, 1986, 1988 and 1989. Atlético also had good performances in the Brazilian Championship, having the best campaign for four times 77, 80, 83, 85. Political and arbitration scandals prevented Atlético to win. In 1977, Reinaldo, the historical scorer of Brazilian championship in that year was forbidden to play the final, supposedly by his insistence in celebrating his goals raising his fist, in a symbol of left politics opposed to Brasil military regimen of the time. Atlético got the 2º place with the best campaign of Brazilian championship ever, finishing with 17 victories and four draws. In 1980, a scandal of arbitration would eliminate Atlético in the final, with Reinaldo receiving red card after scoring twice. In the next year Atlético would be eliminated from Copa Libertadores without losing a match, after having 5 players receiving red card in a game known as “the big stickup”. Atlético was also third placed in 1983, 1986 and in the gold cup of 1987.
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