Clube Atlético Mineiro, usually known as Atlético Mineiro is a Brazilian football team from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, founded on March 25, 1908. Atlético is one of the most traditional teams of Brazil. The first official match was played on March 21, 1909, against Sport Club Futebol. The team plays in black and white vertical striped shirts, black shorts and white socks.
The team is known nationwide as Galo, Portuguese for rooster, its mascot, and was the first official Brazilian champion, in 1971, besides having won two Copas Conmebol (South American Cups) in 1992 and 1997 and being the 2nd Division Brazilian Champions in 2006.
History
Titles
1950 - "Ice Champion" (symbolical title given by local press to the club due to a successful tour in Europe after II World War)
1976 - Torneo Esconde de Fenosa (La Coruña, Spain)
1977 - Trofeo Ciudad del Figo (Spain)
1980 - Trofeo Costa del Sol (Málaga, Spain)
1982 - Tournoi International Villa de Paris
1982 - Trofeo Villa del Bilbao (Spain)
1983 - Philips Cup Tournament of Berna (Switzerland)
1984 - Amsterdam Toernooi (Holland)
1990 - Trofeo Ramón de Carranza (Spain)
1992 - CONMEBOL Champion
1997 - Belo Horizonte City 100 Years Cup
1997 - CONMEBOL Champion International titles
1937 - "Campeão dos Campeões" (FBF) Champion of the Champions of Brazilian League
1971 - Brazilian League
1978 - Campeão dos Campeões do Brasil (Champion of the Champions of Brazilian League)
2006 - Brazilian League Série B National titles
Atlético is the biggest winner of Minas Gerais State Championship, also being runner-up 32 times.
39 State Championships (1915, 1926, 1927, 1931, 1932, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1970, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2000 and 2007). State titles
1975, 1976 and 1983 - Copa São Paulo de Juniores
2004, 2006 and 2007 - Torneo Città di Gradisca
2006 - Santiago Youth Cup Youth titles
1997 - Brazilian Champions
1998 - World Champions (InterContinental Cup)
1999 - Brazilian Champions Futsal
* Atlético was relegated to play the Brazilian League Série B in the next year.
** Atlético played and won the Brazilian League Série B, qualifying to play the Série A in 2007.
Atlético's performances in the Brazilian Championship year by year: Performances in Brazilian Championship
Current squad
Junior Team (Under-20)
Greatest and Famous Players
Reinaldo - Average 1.55 goal per match in 1977 (The best average in Brazilian League ever). 28 goals in 18 matches. 255 goals (best scorer for Atlético ever). Played in World Cup 78 (one goal, against Sweden). And scored the goal that put the Brazilian Team through World Cup 82. Nicknamed the king, Reinaldo is still remembered by the club supporters and received significant support from both the club and the fans when he faced prosecution for taking drugs in 1998.
Dario - also known as "Dadá Maravilha" (Marvel Dadá) . World Champion in 1970, Brazilian's League Scorer in 71 (Brazilian Champion, 15 goals), 72 (17 goals) and 76 (16 goals, Brazilian Champion playing in Internacional/RS).
Taffarel - World Cup 1994 Champion., Uefa cup - Supercup(99-00)Champion Galatasaray S.K.
Gilberto Silva - World Cup Champion 2002 - currently at Arsenal, England
Cicinho - Former Atlético youth, played for Atlético until 2003. Now at Real Madrid.
Mancini - Midfielder from Atlético's youth system. Played for the club from 1999 to 2003. His best season was in 2002, when he scored 15 goals in the Brazilian League. He was sold to A.S. Roma in 2003.
Toninho Cerezo - World Cup 82, Roma and Sampdoria player.
Eder - World Cup 1982, nicknamed O Canhão ("The Cannon") supposedly had one of the mightiest shots in the world and scored a goal against Soviet Union in the World Cup.
Edivaldo - World Cup 1986, died tragically at the age of 30.
Luizinho - World Cup 1982.
Murilo Silva - Won the Belfort Duarte Trophy. He went 10 years without receiving a red card.
Lincoln - Best Player in Bundesliga Nov/04 (according to Kicker magazine) - currently at Schalke 04
Ladislao Mazurkiewicz - Uruguay's National Team goalkeeper in World Cup 1970.
Dedé - currently plays for Borussia Dortmund.
Cláudio Caçapa - currently plays for Olympique Lyonnais.
Juliano Belletti - currently plays for Barça.
Afonso Alves - He is currently playing with SC Heerenveen and have scored 34 goals in 31 matches.
Zé do Monte - a midfield player in the 1950s.
Paulo Isidoro
Marques
Mário de Castro
Said
Jairo
Cincunegui
Ubaldo
William
Nívio Gabrich
Marcelo Oliveira
Grapete
Oldair
Lola
Spencer
Guliherme
Marinho - Série B Brazilian league champion.
Elzo
Éder Aleixo Football
Futsal
Atlético Mineiro's most famous soccer coach is Telê Santana.
The coaches with most matches in Atlético's history are:
Telê Santana - 434
Procópio Cardoso - 328
Barbatana - 227
Levir Culpi - 174
Ricardo Díez - 168 Coaches
Atlético's fan base is known in Brazil as one of the most passionate in the country. The nickname of the fan base is "Massa Atleticana" or simply, "Massa" (meaning mass, on the populational sense), which is known all over the country because of the club's high popularity in the Minas Gerais State. The club is traditionally known as the most popular club in Minas Gerais, even after the recent growth of Cruzeiro's fan base in the 1990s.
Atlético usually has one of the highest average attendances of the country. Since the Brazilian Championship began in 1971, Atlético was the first team to bring more than 10 million people to its matches. Since 1971, 11,743,767 people have watched Atlético play. The club is placed 3rd in the overall average home attendance of the Brazilian Championship, from 1972 to 2005, with 23,521 people per match; just behind Flamengo (on 25,898) and Bahia (on 24,218).
* Atletico played Serie B in 2006.
Atlético is also the club which brought more people to Mineirão; as of 2002, 20,887,391 people in 1,011 matches. Even with 51 less games than the second placed Cruzeiro, Atlético brought 1,542,884 people more. These stats do not include derbies.
Some ultra groups are:
Atlético's average attendances per year in Brazilian Championship:
Galoucura
Galo Metal
Uniformizada (TUA)
Esquadrão Atleticano
Netg@lo
Galosampa/SP
Candangalo/DF
Gargalo
Dragões da FAO
Máfia Atleticana Organizada (MAO)
Força Jovem Atleticana
Galo Prates
Galo Elite
Galodum
Super Força Viva
Galos de Porão
Medgalo
Eficigalo
Desempregalo
Movimento Galo 105' Fans
Atlético plays two derbies in Belo Horizonte City: Atlético vs. América and Atlético vs. Cruzeiro. Until the 1950s and early 1960s, the biggest derby of Minas Gerais State was Atlético vs. América, but from the mid 1960s on, Atlético vs. Cruzeiro became the biggest.
The Atlético vs. Cruzeiro derby has been played 450 times, with 185 wins for Atlético, 144 wins for Cruzeiro and 121 draws.
Atlético vs. América has been played 376 times, with 186 wins for Atlético, 100 wins for América and 90 draws.
Derbies
The team's mascot, the rooster, is one of the most well-known mascots in the country. It was created in the 1940s by Fernando Pierucetti, a cartoonist for "A Folha de Minas" newspaper. He was designated to design a mascot for each of the three greatest clubs in Belo Horizonte. According to Pierucetti, the symbol of Atlético was the rooster because the team used to play with plenty of passion, and would never give up until the end of each match, just like roosters used in cockfights. Another reason is that the most popular hen breed raised in Brazil has mostly black-and-white feathers, thus making the rooster suitable.
The Rooster (Galo)
1908 to 1910 - Margival Mendes Leal
1911 to 1911 - Aleixanor Alves Pereira
1912 to 1913 - Jair Pinto dos Reis
1914 to 1914 - João Luiz Morethzon
1915 to 1916 - Roberto Xavier Azevedo
1917 to 1917 - Nilo Rosemburg
1918 (6 months) - Jorge Dias Pena
1919 (6 months) - Antônio Antunes
1920 to 1920 - Alvaro Felicíssimo
1921 to 1922 - Alfredo Felicíssimo de Paula Furtado
1923 to 1923 - Roberto Xavier de Azevedo
1924 to 1925 - Alfredo Furtado
1926 to 1930 - Leandro Castilho de Moura Costa
1931 to 1931 - Anibal Matos
1932 to 1932 - Afonso Ferreira Paulino
1933 to 1938 - Tomáz Naves
1939 to 1939 - Casildo Quintino dos Santos
1940 (5 months) - Sálvio Noronha
1940 to 1941 (2 months) - Hélio Soares de Moura
1942 to 1942 - Olímpyo Mourão de Miranda
1943 to 1944 - Alberto Pinheiro
1945 to 1945 - Edward Nogueira
1946 to 1949 - Gregoriano Canedo
1949 (3 months) - Geraldo Vasconcelos
1949 (6 meses) - Osvaldo Silva
1950 to 1951 - José Cabral
1952 to 1953 - José Francisco de Paula Júnior
1954 to 1955 - Mário de Andrade Gomes
1956 to 1957 - José Francisco de Paula Júnior
1958 to 1959 - Nelson Campos
1960 to 1960 - Antônio Álvares da Silva
1961 - Edgard Neves
1962 to 1963 - Fábio Fonseca e Silva
1964 (4 months) - José Ramos Filho
1964 (8 months) - Lauro Pires de Carvalho
1966 to 1967 (8 months) - Eduardo Catão Magalhães Pinto
1967 (4 months) - Fábio Fonseca e Silva
1968 to 1969 - Carlos Alberto de Vasconcellos Naves
1970 to 1973 - Nelson Campos
1973 (6 months) - Rubens Silveira
1974 to 1975 - Nelson Campos
1976 to 1979 - Walmir Pereira da Silva
1980 to 1985 - Elias Kalil
1986 - Marum
1986 to 1988 - Nelson Campos
1989 to 1994 - Afonso Araújo Paulino (Aníbal Goulart for sometime)
1995 to 1998 - Paulo Curi
1999 to 2001 - Nélio Brant
2001 to 2003 - Ricardo Annes Guimarães (during the license of Nélio Brant)
2004 to 2006 - Ricardo Annes Guimarães
2007 to ... - Luiz Otávio Ziza Valadares
Stadium informationPresident - Luiz Otávio Ziza Valadares
Financens Vice-President - Renato Moraes Salvador Silva
Legal Department Vice-President - Roberto Soares de Vasconcellos Paes
Vice-President - Gil César Moreira de Abreu
Vice-President - Ronaldo Vasconcellos
Professional Football Team Department Coordinator - Beto Arantes
Amateur Football Team Coordinator - André Figueiredo
Physyo Department Coordinator - Dr. Euller Pace Lasmar
Patrimony Department Coordinator - Geraldo Leite
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